Brightwalton
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| Brightwalton | |
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| Village | |
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| Area | 8.45 km2 (3.26 sq mi) |
| Population | 366 (2011 census)[1] |
| • Density | 43/km2 (110/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] SU4279] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Newbury |
| Postcode district | RG20 |
| Dialling code | 01488 |
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| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Royal Berkshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
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| Website | Brightwalton Web Site |
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Brightwalton is a village and civil parish in the Berkshire Downs centred 7 miles (11 km) NNW of Newbury in West Berkshire.
Name
The name of the village is first recorded in a charter in 939, where it was called Beorhtwaldingtune.[2] It likely meant 'estate associated with Beorhtwald', an Old English personal name.[3]
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of All Saints existed by the time of Domesday Book of 1086.[4] During the 19th century, the church was deemed too small to accommodate a growing congregation, the village having reached 470 population, and was demolished in 1861.[5] Philip Wroughton of Woolley Park,[6] funded the work, including denotation of a sturdily built tower,[7] and commissioned a replacement, completed 1863[4] It was built in the Gothic Revival style by G E Street,Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. who was architect to the Diocese of Oxford. Street retained and re-used some 13th century Early English Gothic features from the original building.[4]
School
The parish has a Church of England primary school.[8] It too was designed by Street and built in 1863.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Transport
Bus travel from Newbury is provided by service 107.[9]
Notable residents
In about 1715 the Savo(u)ry family moved to the village from nearby South Moreton. The Savorys were wheelwrights, but William Savory (1768–1824) from a third generation of the family, was apprenticed to David Jones, an apothecary in Newbury, Berkshire. Aged 20, Savory "walked the wards" of St Thomas' Hospital and Guy's Hospital in London. He learned surgery, physic (medicine) and midwifery from the leading practitioners of their day, including the surgeon Henry Cline and physician William Saunders. Some of his student notes and his commonplace book survive.[10] Savory became a member of the Company of Surgeons and initially practiced in Newbury. Following bankruptcy in 1795 he re-settled in Brightwalton, where he remained for the rest of his life, passing the mantle to his son, William Savory (1793–1856) who studied at the London Hospital in Whitechapel.[11]
Sir Samuel Eyre (1638–98), Justice of the King's Bench, lived in the parish, having inherited the manor of Brightwalton in 1694 through his wife Lady Martha Lucy. Their son Robert Eyre, also of Brightwalton, became Lord Chief Justice. [4]
The author Monica Dickens lived in the village in the last years of her life.[12] Prolific children's author Rosemary Hayes went to school locally.
Demography
| Output area | Homes owned outright | Owned with a loan | Socially rented | Privately rented | Other | km2 roads | km2 water | km2 domestic gardens | Usual residents | km2 |
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| Civil parish | 44 | 52 | 19 | 20 | 7 | 0.076 | 0.001 | 0.132 | 366 | 8.45 |
See also
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005". Archived from the original on 11 February 2003. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Electronic Sawyer". esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gelling, Margaret (1973). The place-names of Berkshire. 1: County, district, road, dyke and river-names, the hundreds of Ripplesmere, Bray, Beynhurst, Cookham, Charlton, Wargrave, Sonning, Reading, Theale, Faircross. English Place-Name Society. Cambridge: Engl. Place-Name Soc. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-521-08575-5.
- ^ a b c d Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."All Saints Church & the Aspire Project". Brightwalton village. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."RBH: History of All Saints' Church, Brightwalton, Berkshire".
- ^ Brightwalton CofE Primary School
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Connect Service 101" (PDF). Newbury and District. January 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."SAVORY, William (fl 1788-1789)". AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 area. 1998–2013.
- ^ See Stuart Eagles, Medicine and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Berkshire: The Commonplace Book of William Savory of Brightwalton and Newbury (Berkshire Record Society, 2024). See also George C. Peachey, The life of William Savory, surgeon of Brightwalton (J.J. Keliher, 1903).
- ^ "Latest wills", The Times page 14, 13 August 1993
Sources
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Page, W.H.; Ditchfield, P.H., eds. (1924). A History of the County of Berkshire. Victoria County History. Vol. 4. assisted by John Hautenville Cope. London: The St Katherine Press. pp. 48–51.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). The Buildings of England: Berkshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 101–102.
External links
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