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Coordinates:51°29′N1°11′W / 51.49°N 1.19°W /51.49; -1.19

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Village and Civil parish in England

Ashampstead
Village andCivil parish
St. Clement's parish church
Ashampstead Location withinBerkshire
Population	398 (2001 census)^[1] 392 (2011 Census)^[2]
OS grid reference	SU5676
Unitary authority	West Berkshire
Ceremonial county	Berkshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Reading
Postcode district	RG8
Dialling code	01635

Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Royal Berkshire
Ambulance	South Central

List of places UK England Berkshire 51°29′N1°11′W / 51.49°N 1.19°W /51.49; -1.19

Ashampstead is a small village andcivil parish in the rural area betweenReading,Newbury andStreatley inBerkshire, England. The parish population is about 400, occupying some 150 dwellings.

History

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The village was calledEsshamstede in the 13th and 14th centuries.^{[citation needed]} TheChurch of England parish church of Saint Clement dates from the 12th century. It has 13th centuryfrescoes and a 15th-century wooden bell turret. It is believed the frescoes may have been painted by monks from the nearbyReading Abbey. The only remaining bell dates from 1662.^{[citation needed]}

Notable people

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The composerHenry Balfour Gardiner bought Field House, Ashampstead Green in 1909, moved in after alterations in 1911, and stayed until 1930.^[3] Many musicians, includingBax,Delius,Percy Grainger,Holst andPeter Warlock visited him there. The orchestral pieceA Berkshire Idyll was completed there on 28 July, 1913.^[4]

References

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^"Area selected: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)".Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Archived fromthe original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved25 July 2010.
^"Civil Parish population 2011".Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved30 November 2016.
^Lloyd, Stephen.H Balfour Gardiner (2005), p. 71
^British Tone Poems, Volume One, Chandos CD 10939 (2017), notes byLewis Foreman

Sources

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Page, William;Ditchfield, P.H., eds. (1923).Victoria County History: A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 3. pp. 449–452.
Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966).The Buildings of England: Berkshire. Harmondsworth:Penguin Books. p. 70.

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Media related toAshampstead at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Settlements inWest Berkshire
Towns	Hungerford Newbury Thatcham (All arecivil parishes and have town councils)
Civil parishes	Aldermaston Aldworth Ashampstead Basildon Beech Hill Beedon Beenham Boxford Bradfield Brightwalton Brimpton Bucklebury Burghfield Catmore Chaddleworth Chieveley Cold Ash Combe Compton East Garston East Ilsley Enborne Englefield Farnborough Fawley Frilsham Great Shefford Greenham Hampstead Marshall Hampstead Norreys Hermitage Holybrook Inkpen Kintbury Lambourn Leckhampstead Midgham Padworth Pangbourne Peasemore Purley on Thames Shaw-cum-Donnington Speen Stanford Dingley Stratfield Mortimer Streatley Sulham Sulhamstead Theale Tidmarsh Tilehurst Ufton Nervet Wasing Welford West Woodhay West Ilsley Winterbourne Wokefield Woolhampton Yattendon
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