Sandleford
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thumbnail|UK Ordnance Survey map, detail of Sandleford, 1939. Sandleford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Greenham, in the West Berkshire of Berkshire, England. It adjoins the southern outskirts of the town of Newbury. Sandleford Priory was anciently a monastery, dissolved in 1478. The former monastery was largely rebuilt in the 18th century as a country house also called Sandleford Priory, incorporating the remains of some of the old monastery buildings. A civil parish called Sandford existed until 1934, when it was absorbed into the parish of Greenham.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Greenham
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Sandleford Cottage, Newbury.JPG
- Dialing code
- 01635
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- Commons category
- Sandleford
- postal code
- RG20
- OS grid reference
- SU474643
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Landscape
- Population
- History
- Civil War
- Landowners
- Administrative history
- Notable buildings
- Sandleford Priory
- Monastery
- Country house
- Sandleford Place
- Sandleford Grove
- Sandleford Farm
- Literature
- References
thumbnail|UK Ordnance Survey map, detail of Sandleford, 1939. Sandleford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Greenham, in the West Berkshire of Berkshire, England. It adjoins the southern outskirts of the town of Newbury. Sandleford Priory was anciently a monastery, dissolved in 1478. The former monastery was largely rebuilt in the 18th century as a country house also called Sandleford Priory, incorporating the remains of some of the old monastery buildings. A civil parish called Sandford existed until 1934, when it was absorbed into the parish of Greenham.
==Geography== ===Landscape=== The former civil parish of Sandleford contained about 520 acres, covering the parkland of the priory and adjoining farmland and woods generally lying to its west.
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