Lower Basildon
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| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] SU609787] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | READING |
| Postcode district | RG8 |
| Dialling code | 01491 |
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| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Royal Berkshire |
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Lower Basildon is a small English village in the civil parish of Basildon, near Pangbourne, in the county of Berkshire.
Amenities
Shops and restaurants
Upper Basildon has a sub-post office (located in St Stephen's Church) and a pub-restaurant, The Red Lion.[1] Lower Basildon currently has a garage/shop and a motor repair business.
Transport
The village is covered only by a Tuesday bus service running between Goring-on-Thames and Reading. The nearest railway station is Goring and Streatley (2.6 miles; 4.2 km) which offers stopping trains between Didcot and London Paddington. The main A329 road connects the village with Goring and Reading.
Beale Wildlife Park
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Historic buildings
St Bartholomew's Church
The 15th century parish church of St Bartholomew stands at the end of Church Lane, down by the River Thames.[3]
Roman villa
The remains of a modest Roman villa were discovered near the church in 1839 during the construction of the Great Western Railway but nothing of the villa remains to be seen today. It housed two beautiful mosaic floors, which were unfortunately destroyed very soon after being found. A drawing of one was made by the antiquarian, Charles Roach Smith.[3]
6-12 Reading Road
The village is well known locally for the presence of a row of early 20th century timber-framed 'black-and-white' houses on its western side. However, only one of these possesses a true timber frame. The remainder are built of brick, and clad with timber to resemble framing. These had been specifically commissioned as workers' cottages for Basildon Park.[3]
Basildon Grotto
Basildon Grotto, or The Grotto House, is located 0.8 miles (1.3 km) to the west of the village on the road to Streatley. The original Grotto was built in 1720 and consisted of a rock chamber filled with shells and a rock pool. This summer house was extended at the beginning of the 19th century by Arthur Smith MP to form a large mansion.[4] Until about 2007, it was the headquarters of the Institute for Leisure and Amenity Management (ILAM). Although sold to a new owner, it remains empty, fire-damaged and ruinous.[5][6]
Basildon Park
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Notable people
In birth order:
- Jethro Tull (1674–1741), agriculturalist, was born in Upper Basildon and buried in the churchyard of St Bartholomew's Church in Lower Basildon, under a modern gravestone dated 1740, though he died in 1741.[3]
- Sir Francis Sykes, 1st Baronet (1732–1804), British East India Company governor, landowner and politician, lived in Basildon, but died before his mansion was completed.[7]
- Graham Whitehead (1922–1981), Formula 1 motor racing driver, died in Basildon.[8]
References
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- ^ Basildon, West Berkshire site. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ^ Beale Park site. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ford, David Nash (2020). Mid-Berkshire Town and Village Histories. Wokingham: Nash Ford Publishing. pp. 129–132. ISBN 9781905191024.
- ^ Christopher Winn: I Never Knew That about the River Thames (London: Ebury Press, 2010), p. 79.
- ^ Basildon Parish Plan draft Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ^ Retrieved 17 August 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."SYKES, Francis (1732-1804), of Basildon Park, Berks". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."World Sports Racing Prototypes - British International Races 1952". WSRP. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
External links
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