Pinewood (formerly Pine Wood) is a rural area of

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, near

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, in the

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county of

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, covered by the campus of the

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Institute, the Pinewood Centre community club and society complex and a small industrial estate. The Pinewood Centre is run by Wokingham Without Parish Council.

History

Pinewood is known for its dense forest of

pine tree A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The World Flora Online created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accepts ...

s. Following clearance of parts of the area in the twentieth century, a number of buildings were erected around the crossroads. The London Open Air Sanatorium for

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patients was opened in 1901 before becoming the Pinewood Sanatorium and then the

Pinewood Hospital The Pinewood Hospital was a hospital in Pinewood, Berkshire, Pinewood, near Crowthorne, England, for the treatment of people suffering from tuberculosis. It was located in a pine wood as pine trees were thought to be beneficial in the treatmen ...

. Pine trees were thought to be beneficial for sufferers of the disease.Pinewood Sanatorium.
AIM25. Retrieved 19 February 2018. It closed in 1966. In 2011, efforts were underway to turn the remains of the hospital into a museum.Pinewood traced back through the years.
getreading, 27 June 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2018.

Maps

File:Pine Wood, Ordnance Survey map 1899.jpg, Pine Wood on an 1899 Ordnance Survey map. File:Pinewood, Ordnance Survey map 1965.jpg, Pinewood on a 1965 Ordnance Survey map.

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External links

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