Eastbury is a small village in the valley of the River Lambourn in the

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county of Berkshire. The village is situated on the old river level road from Newbury to

Lambourn Lambourn is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. It lies just north of the M4 Motorway between Swindon and Newbury, and borders Wiltshire to the west and Oxfordshire to the north. After Newmarket it is the largest centre of ra ...

, and is east of Lambourn and west of

East Garston East Garston is a village and civil parish on the River Lambourn, about north of Hungerford in West Berkshire. The river flows through the village, dividing many houses from the main road, so that each has a bridge over the river to the front d ...

. The village is situated in the

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of Lambourn, which is within the

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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 Dist ...

Geography

Eastbury has three Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within close vicinity to the village, these are White Shute,

Westfield Farm Chalk Bank Westfield Farm Chalk Bank is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of East Garston in Berkshire. Geography The site is lowland Calcareous grassland The bank is North facing. There is access by a footpath from Newbury Road. Flo ...

and Cleeve Hill.

River Lambourn

Bernard's

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on the River Lambourn is found to the west of the village, suitable only for

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s and

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s, but there is also a footbridge. Here the river formed its banks in July 2007 and flowed down the Newbury Road for over a hundred yards before rejoining the river.

The Plough Inn

The river Lambourn runs through the middle of Eastbury, and past the Plough

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, which holds the Great Eastbury

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Race on the river in May.

References

Villages in Berkshire Lambourn {{Berkshire-geo-stub

Geography

River Lambourn

The Plough Inn

See also

References