Wash Water

Wash Water

The Woodpecker public house near Wash Water
Wash Water
 Wash Water shown within Berkshire
OS grid referenceSU451635
Metropolitan boroughWest Berkshire
Metropolitan county Berkshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town NEWBURY
Postcode district RG10
Dialling code 01635
Police Thames Valley
Fire Royal Berkshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK ParliamentBerkshire
List of places
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England
Berkshire

Coordinates: 51°22′09″N 1°21′28″W / 51.369152°N 1.357884°W / 51.369152; -1.357884

Wash Water is an hamlet on the border of Berkshire, and Hampshire.[1] It is divided between the civil parishs of Enborne, Newbury, Highclere and East Woodhay. The settlement lies adjacent to the A343 and A34 highways (Newbury Bypass), approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south-south-west of Newbury.

Some locals claim it is named after the spot on the River Enborne where women washed the troops' clothes during or after the First Battle of Newbury of the English Civil War, others say it is because wool was washed in the local rivers before fulling in the two nearby mills.

Village facilities include a public house called the Woodpecker Inn,[2] formerly the Derby Arms.

References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 174 Newbury & Wantage (Hungerford & Didcot) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319228739.
  2. "Woodpecker Arms". www.arkells.com. Retrieved 10 April 2016.

External links

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