Hamstead Marshall
There is a 12th-century[4] church (St Mary's),[5] canine rescue kennels, and the White Hart Inn, Hamstead Marshall's pub for several centuries.The present village hall served until 1933 as the local primary school; it now hosts regular community events as well as private bookings.William Craven built a mansion there, originally intended as a residence for Charles I's sister, Elizabeth of Bohemia, although she died before construction began.Until the mid-twentieth century the Craven family owned most of the village, but successive sales by the estate put almost all the houses into private ownership by 1980, most of them now owner-occupied.The village has four areas designated sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), these are Hamstead Marshall Pit, Irish Hill Copse, Redhill Wood and the River Kennet.
Villagecivil parishBerkshireUnitary authorityWest BerkshireShire countyRegionSouth EastCountryEnglandSovereign stateEnglishNorth Wessex Downs2011 censusunitary authorityNewburyHampshirechurchSt Marymedievalmotte-and-baileycastlesNewbury CastlemonumentsWilliam MarshallEarl of PembrokeknightHenry IIRichard IKing JohnHenry IIImanor houseEarls of CravenWilliam CravenCharles IElizabeth of BohemiaRiver KennetKennet and Avon CanalRiver Enbornelisted buildingssites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)Hamstead Marshall PitIrish Hill CopseRedhill WoodHistoric EnglandNational Heritage List for EnglandHungerfordThatchamcivil parishesAldermastonAldworthAshampsteadBasildonBeech HillBeedonBeenhamBoxfordBradfieldBrightwaltonBrimptonBuckleburyBurghfieldCatmoreChaddleworthChieveleyCold AshComptonEast GarstonEast IlsleyEnborneEnglefieldFarnboroughFawleyFrilshamGreat SheffordGreenhamHampstead NorreysHermitageHolybrookInkpenKintburyLambournLeckhampsteadMidghamPadworthPangbournePeasemorePurley on ThamesShaw-cum-DonningtonStanford DingleyStratfield MortimerStreatleySulhamSulhamsteadThealeTidmarshTilehurstUfton NervetWasingWelfordWest WoodhayWest IlsleyWinterbourneWokefieldWoolhamptonYattendonAldermaston WharfAshmore GreenAvingtonBagnorBeansheaf FarmBeedon CommonBenham HillBloomfield HatchBrightwalton GreenBrimpton CommonBurghfield BridgeBurnt HillCalcotChapel RowColthropCrockham HeathCrookhamDonningtonEastburyEddington