Horncastle, Berkshire
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  Horncastle shown within Berkshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
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| Unitary authority | Reading |
| Ceremonial county | Berkshire |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Royal Berkshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Reading West |
| List of places: UK • England • Berkshire | |
Horncastle is an area of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It is situated on the A4 Bath Road to the west of central Reading, at a point where the Reading suburbs of Southcote, Calcot and Tilehurst all meet.[1]
Today largely surrounded on all sides but the north-west by areas of 20th century housing, Horncastle was once an isolated hamlet in the rural area to the west of Reading. It was situated at the point at which a lane, known to this day as New Lane Hill, left the Bath Road and climbed the hill to Tilehurst.[1][2]
The old hamlet of Horncastle lies just within the borough of Reading. The name is sometimes used to include the eastern section of Calcot, which lies south-west of the old hamlet and outside the borough boundary in West Berkshire.
Calcot Park, formerly a large country house and estate and now a golf course, is to the north west.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Ordnance Survey (2006). OS Explorer Map 159 – Reading. ISBN 0-319-23730-3.
- ^ (2006) Cassini Historical Map – Reading & Windsor – 1816-1830. Cassini Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1847360513.
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