Yattendon
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| Yattendon | |
  Yattendon shown within Berkshire |
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| Population | 331 |
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| OS grid reference | |
| Unitary authority | West Berkshire |
| Ceremonial county | Berkshire |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Thatcham |
| Postcode district | RG18 |
| Dialling code | 01635 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Royal Berkshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Newbury |
| List of places: UK • England • Berkshire | |
Yattendon is a village and civil parish, situated between Newbury and Reading close to the M4 motorway, in the English county of Berkshire.
[edit] Geography
Yattendon stretches from Everington in the west to the hamlet of Burnt Hill in the east and the woodland just east of Yattendon Court, including Mumgrove Copse, Bushy Copse, Clack's Copse and Gravelpit Copse. The motorway forms most of its southern boundary and some of the houses on the northern edge of Frilsham are actually in Yattendon. The River Pang flows through the west of the parish. It is located in the hundred of Faircross which effectively ceased to function after 1886.
[edit] Famous people
The village once had a fortified manor house or castle, Yattendon Castle. It was home to:
- Sir Henry Norreys, a Tudor courtier accused of adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn and the father of
- Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, Ambassador to France and father of
- Sir John Norreys, the greatest soldier of Elizabethan England whose memorial is in the parish church
Other famous residents include:
- Alfred Waterhouse, the architect of the Natural History Museum who built himself a home at Yattendon Court (not the present building).
- Thomas Carte, noted English historian, once held the rectory and was buried in the church
- Sir Miles Dempsey, World War II general
- Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe, the newspaper magnate who lived at Yattendon Court. From 1925 to 1940, he amalgamated several small farming estates and formed the Yattendon Estate in 1955. It covers nearly 9,000 acres (36 km²) of farmland, woodland, grazing and Christmas tree plantations.
[edit] External links
- National Gazetteer 1868 Article on Yattendon
- Royal Berkshire History: Yattendon
- Royal Berkshire History: Yattendon Castle
- Royal Berkshire History: Yattendon Court
- Yattendon Estate
- Photographs of Yattendon
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