Kidmore End

Kidmore End

St John the Baptist parish church
Kidmore End
 Kidmore End shown within Oxfordshire
Population 1,264 (parish, including Gallowstree Common) (2001 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSU6979
Civil parishKidmore End
DistrictSouth Oxfordshire
Shire countyOxfordshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Reading
Postcode district RG4
Dialling code 0118
Police Thames Valley
Fire Oxfordshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK ParliamentHenley
WebsiteKidmore End Parish Council
List of places
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Coordinates: 51°30′32″N 0°59′42″W / 51.509°N 0.995°W

Kidmore End is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire centred 4 miles (6.4 km) north north-west of Reading, Berkshire.

Amenities and geography

The village is dispersed into four built-up streets or small clusters of homes and has half-timbered cottages, housing ranging from early Georgian to a few late 20th century and early 21st century homes [2] and a public house, the New Inn.[3]

The Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist was built in 1852.[4] The village school was opened in 1856 and is now a Church of England primary school.[5]

Kidmore End Cricket Club plays in the Thames Valley Cricket League.[6]

The nearest shop, café and small business services are in Sonning Common, centred 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north-east. The area is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) at its longest (north-west to south-east) and includes the named localities of Gallowstree Common by a wooded common, Cane End, Chalkhouse Green and Tokers Green.

Demography

In land use statistics, published with the 2011 census, the area was mostly greenspace, which is agriculture and woodland in this area, with the next highest land use category being domestic gardens, followed by roads, non-domestic buildings and domestic buildings.[7]

Nearest places

Nearest Places (by Civil Parish)
Checkendon
Woodcote (part of)		 Rotherfield Peppard Sonning Common
Goring Heath Binfield Heath
   Kidmore End  
Mapledurham Caversham Emmer Green
Eye and Dunsden

References

  1. ↑ "Area: Kidmore End CP (Parish): Parish Headcounts". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
  2. ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 673.
  3. ↑ The New Inn
  4. ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 672.
  5. ↑ Kidmore End School
  6. ↑ Kidmore End Cricket Club
  7. ↑ Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005

Sources

External links

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