Brightwalton

Brightwalton

All Saints' parish church
Brightwalton
 Brightwalton shown within Berkshire
Area  8.45 km2 (3.26 sq mi)
Population 366 (2011 census)[1]
    density  43/km2 (110/sq mi)
OS grid referenceSU4279
Civil parishBrightwalton
Unitary authorityWest Berkshire
Ceremonial countyBerkshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Newbury
Postcode district RG20
Dialling code 01488
Police Thames Valley
Fire Royal Berkshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK ParliamentNewbury
WebsiteBrightwalton Web Site
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Coordinates: 51°30′40″N 1°23′02″W / 51.511°N 1.384°W / 51.511; -1.384

Brightwalton is a village and civil parish in the Berkshire Downs centred 7 miles (11 km) NNW of Newbury in West Berkshire.

Parish church

The Church of England parish church of All Saints existed by the time of the Domesday Book of 1086.[2] The building was demolished in 1863[2] and replaced by a Gothic Revival one designed by GE Street,[3] who was architect to the Diocese of Oxford. Street retained and re-used some 13th century Early English Gothic features from the original building.[2]

School

The parish has a Church of England primary school.[4] It too was designed by Street and built in 1863.[5]

Transport

Bus travel from Newbury is provided by service 107.[6]

Notable residents

In about 1715 the Savo(u)ry family moved to the village from nearby South Moreton. The Savorys were wheelwrights, but William Savory (1768–1824) from a third generation of the family, was apprenticed to David Jones, an apothecary in Newbury, Berkshire. Aged 20, Savory "walked the wards" of St Thomas' Hospital and Guy's Hospital in London. He learned surgery, physic (medicine) and midwifery from the leading practitioners of their day, including the surgeon Henry Cline and physician William Saunders. Some of his student notes and his commonplace book survive.[7] Savory became a member of the Company of Surgeons and initially practiced in Newbury. Following bankruptcy in 1795 he re-settled in Brightwalton, where he remained for the rest of his life, passing the mantle to his son, William Savory (1793–1856) who studied at the London Hospital in Whitechapel.[8]

Sir Samuel Eyre (1638–98), Justice of the King's Bench, lived in the parish inherited the manor of Brightwalton in 1694.[2]

Demography

2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005[1]
Output areaHomes owned outrightOwned with a loanSocially rentedPrivately rentedOtherkm² roadskm² waterkm² domestic gardensUsual residents km²
Civil parish 44 52 19 20 7 0.076 0.001 0.132 366 8.45

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005
  2. 1 2 3 4 Page & Ditchfield 1924, pp. 48–51
  3. Pevsner 1966, p. 101.
  4. Brightwalton CofE Primary School
  5. Pevsner 1966, p. 102.
  6. "Connect Service 101" (pdf). Newbury and District. January 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  7. "SAVORY, William (fl 1788-1789)". AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 area. 1998–2013.
  8. See Stuart Eagles "The life of William Savory, surgeon of Brightwalton" and "William Savory: Rise and Fall" in Berkshire Family Historian vol. 17, no. 4 (June 1994) and vol. 21, no. 1 (September 1997), and George C. Peachey, The life of William Savory, surgeon of Brightwalton (J.J. Keliher, 1903).

Sources

External links

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