Stratfield Mortimer
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Stratfield Mortimer is a village and civil parish, just south of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire.
Strictly speaking, the village of Stratfield Mortimer sits at the foot of Mortimer Hill which rises westward from the Foudry Brook. It includes Mortimer railway station, the Fox and Horn public house, St Mary's Church of England parish church, Mortimer St Mary's Junior School and the headquarters of the Berkshire Federation of Women's Institutes.
The much larger and better known village of Mortimer Common, commonly called Mortimer, is at the top of the hill. It has a surgery, a bank, another school, a post office, the Church of England parish church of St John the Evangelist and four public houses: The Turner's Arms, the Victoria Arms, the Carpenters Arms and the Horse and Groom. The three main roads in Mortimer are The Street, West End Road and Victoria Road. It also has a football team.
The Lockram Brook flows through the middle of the parish and there is much woodland in the area, including Starvale Woods and Holden Firs.
As Stratfield Mortimer used to be a cross-county parish, the Hampshire part was known as Mortimer West End. It is now a civil parish in its own right.
