Stanford Dingley is a small village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England, between Newbury and Theale.The southern parish boundary runs along the edge of the woodland on the northern slopes of Clay Hill.The pond complex around the 'Blue Pool', containing artesian aquifers, though generally thought of as part of Stanford Dingley is actually just across the parish boundary in Bradfield.Stanford is from the Old English for "Stoney-Ford", perhaps indicating a Roman river-crossing of the river Pang heading towards Dorchester-on-Thames.[4] Stanford Dingley is an ecclesiastical parish in the Church of England, recorded as such in the Domesday Book.