Kidmore End is a village and

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, centred NNW of

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, an important regional centre of commerce, research and engineering. It is in the low

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, partly in the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The

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from Reading towards

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passes through the west of the parish and it is located 6 miles from Henley on Thames.

Amenities and geography

The village is dispersed into four built-up streets or small clusters of homes and has half-timbered cottages, housing ranging from early

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to a few late 20th century and early 21st century homes and a

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, the New Inn. The

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of Saint

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, designed by

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, was built in 1852. The village school was opened in 1856 and is now a

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. Kidmore End

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Club plays in the Thames Valley Cricket League.Kidmore End Cricket Club
The nearest shop, café and small business services are in

Sonning Common Sonning Common is a village and civil parish in a relatively flat, former common land part of the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, centred west south-west of Henley-on-Thames and north of Reading. History During the English Civil War th ...

, centred north-east. The area is about long at its longest (north-west to south-east) and includes the named localities of Gallowstree Common by a wooded common, Cane End, Chalkhouse Green and

Tokers Green Tokers Green is a hamlet in South Oxfordshire, England, about north of Reading, Berkshire. Its village neighbours are Chazey Heath and Kidmore End Kidmore End is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, centred NNW of Reading, ...

Land use

The land use statistics published with the 2011 census show that the area was mostly greenspace, which is agriculture and woodland in this area, with the next highest land use category being domestic gardens, followed by roads, non-domestic buildings and domestic buildings.Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005
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