Wargrave
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Wargrave () is a historic village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. The village is primarily on the River Thames but also along the confluence of the River Loddon and lies on the border with southern Oxfordshire. The village has many old listed buildings, two marinas with chandlery services for boats, a boating club and rises steeply to the northeast in the direction of Bowsey Hill, with higher parts of the village generally known as Upper Wargrave. In Upper Wargrave is a Recreation Ground with a cricket club, bowls club, football pitches and tennis club.
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- Locality
- Hare Hatch
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 4,209
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Wargrave
- UK place.static_image_name
- File:High Street, Wargrave, Berkshire - geograph.org.uk - 4679851.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 300px
- UK place.population
- 3803
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 16.28
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SU7878
- UK place.civil_parish
- Wargrave
- UK place.unitary_england
- Wokingham
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Berkshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- Reading
- UK place.postcode_area
- RG
- UK place.postcode_district
- RG10
- UK place.dial_code
- 0118
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Maidenhead
- UK place.website
- Wargrave Parish Council
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Original forms of name
- Early history
- Post Industrial Revolution
- Geography
- Governance
- Christian buildings and memorials
- The river
- Amenities
- Demography
- Notable residents
- Nearest places
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
Wargrave () is a historic village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. The village is primarily on the River Thames but also along the confluence of the River Loddon and lies on the border with southern Oxfordshire. The village has many old listed buildings, two marinas with chandlery services for boats, a boating club and rises steeply to the northeast in the direction of Bowsey Hill, with higher parts of the village generally known as Upper Wargrave. In Upper Wargrave is a Recreation Ground with a cricket club, bowls club, football pitches and tennis club.
Wargrave is situated in the A321 road from both Maidenhead and Reading and from Henley-on-Thames. The village is larger than the county average, having its own railway station on the Henley Branch Line, off the Great Western Main Line from London Paddington; the village is quickly accessible to nearby parts of the M4 corridor, particularly Berkshire and Heathrow Airport and local major centres of employment include Reading and Maidenhead, with smaller businesses and additional commercial facilities in nearby Henley-on-Thames and Wokingham.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wargrave” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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