HAMSTEAD MARSHALL in Berkshire, England

Welcome to the website of Hamstead Marshall, a picturesque and historic village lying between the Kennet and Enborne rivers, four miles west of Newbury in West Berkshire. The name applies to a Saxon manor, a church parish of twelfth-century foundation and a civil parish since 1896. All fall within roughly the same boundary, enclosing nearly three square miles of gently rolling farm and park land.	Facts and figures about the village Parish council: details of meetings and members West Berkshire Council: services to the village
Village news
	Young musicians from the village led carol singers at the Christmas party in the village hall on Saturday 20 December. About 50 people attended, enjoying free food and drink provided by the village market organisers. The parish plan has now been formally adopted, and can be seen via the WBC website. The Village Design Statement will be posted when the third draft is accepted by WBC. Not recommended for dial-up users : the Parish Plan is a large file. Broadband The broadband committee has now completed the advertised testing programme. See the Hamstead Hornet for details.
Stories in the December 2008 issue Broadband up and running Planning applications Parish plan: more money, more amenities parish council vacancy The Hamstead Hornet is delivered quarterly free to all houses in the parish and several more just inside adjoining parishes. If you would like to be notified by email when the next issue has been posted here please send an email.	Previous Hornet issues in full June 2008 June 2008 March 2008 December 2007 September 2007 June 2007 March 2007 (Dial-up users please be patient; these are 500 - 1,000kb files)
Finding your way to, from and around Hamstead Marshall
Multimap of a four-mile radius around Hamstead Marshall Larger-scale road-map of the village images produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service with permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. Local public transport links	Village gazetteer A-Z listing of houses, roads and places in Hamstead, with history, description and pictures, plus the first-ever guide to the fiendish house-numbering system now with more pictures
Take the tour on foot five local walks detailed or on screen Hamstead Marshall in pictures a gallery tour of local views
groups, organisations, services and facilities
Monthly market in the village hall Circle of Friends (ladies' group) Enborne & Hamstead Marshall Garden Society White Hart Inn - accommodation, real ales, good food, seven days a week 01488 658201 Village hall: available for hire for meetings, classes, parties St Mary's Church: 900 years of service to the parish - services and contacts Business directory: services and products sourced within the village Want to pay less for your heating oil? Residents of Hamstead, Enborne, Woodhay and Kintbury can join Lanie's oil group
Hamstead's history
A page-length potted parish history Craven Country: the Story of Hamstead Marshall book-length village history from Domesday to the twentieth century, now out of print, but online with revised text and new illustrations Listed buldings and protected sites in the village The village hall and its former role as Hamstead's school (For present-day details go instead to this page) St Mary's Church - architectural history of Hamstead's oldest building (For present-day details go instead to this page)	Old maps of the village Georgian Hamstead as mapped by John Rocque 1761 Victorian Hamstead as mapped by Ordnance Survey 1880s Twentieth-century Hamstead the entire parish mapped around 1980 Links to other sites covering Hamstead's past Geophysical survey report - English Heritage's 1996 survey of Hamstead's ancient sites in full
Every effort is made to ensure that information in this website is accurate and up to date, but no responsibility can be taken for inaccuracies, nor for the content of any other website to which links are offered here. Your comments and questions are welcome. Please send an email. 21 December 2008 Copyright Penelope Stokes