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Woodlands St Mary is a small village in the
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county of
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 ...
. The village is situated in the
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
of Lambourn, and is to the south of the village of Lambourn, and from Lambourn Woodlands. The parish is within the
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of
West Berkshire West Berkshire is a local government district in Berkshire, England, administered from Newbury by West Berkshire Council. History The district of Newbury was formed on 1 April 1974, as a merger of the borough of Newbury, Bradfield Rural Distric ...
, close to the border between the counties of Berkshire and
Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...
.


Geography

Woodlands St Mary is located on the route of Ermin Way, the
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which connected ''
Calleva Atrebatum Calleva Atrebatum ("Calleva of the Atrebates") was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads of southern Britain. The modern villa ...
'' (today's
Silchester Silchester is a village and civil parish about north of Basingstoke in Hampshire. It is adjacent to the county boundary with Berkshire and about south-west of Reading. Silchester is most notable for the archaeological site and Roman town of ...
) to '' Glevum'' (
Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east ...
). The route of Ermin Way through the village is used by today's B4000 from Newbury to Lambourn. The modern
M4 motorway The M4, originally the London-South Wales Motorway, is a motorway in the United Kingdom running from west London to southwest Wales. The English section to the Severn Bridge was constructed between 1961 and 1971; the Welsh element was largely ...
passes just to the south of the village, with the nearest junction 14, about to the east, between
Shefford Woodlands Shefford Woodlands is a village in West Berkshire, England, about northeast of the market town of Hungerford. The village is in the Civil parishes in England, civil parish of Great Shefford, about southeast of Great Shefford village. Shefford W ...
and Hungerford Newtown.


Church

St Mary's church was built in 1851 and designed by the architect, Thomas Talbot Bury. It is a
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listed building.


See also

* List of places in Berkshire * Berkshire Downs


References


External links

Villages in Berkshire Lambourn {{Berkshire-geo-stub