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Burghfield
Sign in to saveBurghfield is a village and large civil parish in West Berkshire, England, with a boundary with Reading. Burghfield can trace its history back to before the Domesday Book, and was once home to three manors: Burghfield Regis, Burghfield Abbas, and Sheffield (or Soefeld). Since the 1980s the population of Burghfield has nearly doubled with the construction of housing estates, making it a dormitory for Reading, Newbury, Basingstoke and the M4 corridor (which crosses the north of the parish).
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Place details
- Locality
- Burghfield
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 355
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Rising_Sun_pub_Burghfield_common.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Rising Sun, Burghfield Common, in 2005
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.type
- Village and civil parish
- UK place.official_name
- Burghfield
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.population
- 5923
- UK place.population_ref
- Berkshire Public Health Shared Team
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 17.11
- UK place.civil_parish
- Burghfield
- UK place.unitary_england
- West Berkshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- West Berkshire
- Population
- +5955
- Area
- +17.11
- Shares border with
- Sulhamstead
- Image
- Rising Sun pub Burghfield common.jpg
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
41 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Prehistory
- Roman
- Anglo-Saxon period
- Norman era
- Tudor and Stuart eras
- 18th and 19th centuries
- River Kennet mills
- World War II
- Governance
- Population
- Geography
- Geology
- Gravel extraction
- Flora and fauna
- Watercourses
- Hosehill Lake
- Woodlands
- Farming
- Churches
- St Mary's Parish Church
- Burghfield Common Methodist Church
- St Oswalds Roman Catholic Church
- Transport
- Road
- Rail
- Kennet and Avon Canal
- Services
- Telephone exchange
- Water
- Power station
- Institutions
- Charities
- Education
- War memorials
- Sports and leisure
- Demography
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Burghfield is a village and large civil parish in West Berkshire, England, with a boundary with Reading. Burghfield can trace its history back to before the Domesday Book, and was once home to three manors: Burghfield Regis, Burghfield Abbas, and Sheffield (or Soefeld). Since the 1980s the population of Burghfield has nearly doubled with the construction of housing estates, making it a dormitory for Reading, Newbury, Basingstoke and the M4 corridor (which crosses the north of the parish).
Most of the former sparsely inhabited fields of the hamlet of Pingewood, in the north of the parish, are divided by the M4 motorway and have been converted, after gravel extraction in the mid to late 20th century, into lakes that are used for watersports, fishing, and other leisure activities. They are also a habitat for migrating geese, water fowl and other wildlife. A few higher gravel pits in this area have been drained, clay-lined and used as landfill sites.