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Quelm Park is a suburb of
Bracknell Bracknell () is a large town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, the westernmost area within the Greater London Built-up Area, Greater London Urban Area and the administrative centre of the Bracknell Forest, Borough of Bracknell Forest. It l ...
, in
Berkshire Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berk ...
, England. The settlement lies west of the
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, south of the Bracknell Northern Distributor Road "Harvest Ride" and is approximately north of Bracknell town centre. It takes its name from "Quelm Lane", an ancient thoroughfare that runs north–south through the development. "Quelm" is thought to mean "gibbet" and may be derived from the
Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
''cwelm, cwealm'' meaning 'death, murder, slaughter'. Quelm Park was built in the latter 1990s as a planned urban extension to Bracknell; however it lies entirely within the parish of
Warfield Warfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire and the borough of Bracknell Forest. History Warfield was originally an Anglo-Saxon settlement and is recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Warwelt'' ic The name is believ ...
, forming the Quelm Ward of Warfield Parish Council.


The Quelm Stone

The Quelm Stone is a
standing stone A menhir (from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large human-made upright rock (geology), stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. T ...
located near the Quelm Park Roundabout on Harvest Ride, at OS grid reference SU 8697 7087. It is made of sandstone, measures 1460mm long, 995mm wide and 260mm deep, and is estimated to weigh 1,158 kg. It is thought to have been deposited here about 14,000 years ago by a retreating glacier during the last glacial period.http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=10219


References

Populated places in Berkshire Bracknell Warfield {{Berkshire-geo-stub