Shaw-cum-Donnington

Shaw-cum-Donnington
Lake, lawn and house at Donnington Grove, the area's hotel resort.
Public footpath across barley field, typical of the north of the area.
Shaw-cum-Donnington  Shaw-cum-Donnington shown within Berkshire
Area	8.6 km^2 (3.3 sq mi)
Population	1,686 (2011 census)[1]
– density	196/km^2 (510/sq mi)
OS grid reference	SU4767
– London	51 miles (82 km)[2]
Civil parish	Shaw cum Donnington
Unitary authority	West Berkshire
Ceremonial county	Berkshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWBURY
Postcode district	RG14, RG18 (small part)
Dialling code	01635
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Royal Berkshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Newbury
List of places UK England Berkshire

Coordinates: 51°24′54″N 1°18′54″W / 51.415°N 1.315°W

Shaw-cum-Donnington is a civil parish in West Berkshire, Berkshire, England with all of its urban or suburban area immediately north of (contiguous with) the largest town in the district, Newbury. It comprises the villages of Shaw and Donnington and contains the partially ruined castle of Donnington Castle which has most of its various outside walls intact.

Geography

The area is mostly green space but where developed is almost entirely residential with shops and cafés. It has housing immediately north of (contiguous with) the town of Newbury. It comprises the villages of Shaw and Donnington and contains the partially ruined castle of Donnington Castle which has most of its various outside walls intact.

Amenities

The ecclesiastical parish church which crosses the River Lambourn bounding the civil parish to the south for a few hundred metres, is of the same name and otherwise of about the same borders. It has one church which has an active Church of England community at Shaw.^[3]

Shaw, the eastern clustered development also has the area's Church of England primary school.

Demography

2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005^[1]

Output area	Homes owned outright	Owned with a loan	Socially rented	Privately rented	Other	km² roads	km² water	km² domestic gardens	Usual residents	km²
Civil parish	231	216	162	83	13	0.240	0.110	0.494	1686	8.6

References

1. Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005
2. Grid reference Finder measurement tools
3. Shaw cum Donnington parish The Church of England. Retrieved 2014-12-11.

External links

Media related to Shaw cum Donnington at Wikimedia Commons

• Berkshire History: Shaw-cum-Donnington Parish Church — St. Mary's Church