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Woosehill is a suburb of
Wokingham Wokingham is a market town in Berkshire, England, west of London, southeast of Reading, north of Camberley and west of Bracknell. History Wokingham means 'Wocca's people's home'. Wocca was apparently a Saxon chieftain who may ...
in the
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county of Berkshire. Woosehill – spelled incorrectly as ''Woose Hill'' on
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maps – is the north-western region of Wokingham, adjoining Emmbrook. The
Emm Brook The Emm Brook, sometimes known as the Embrook or Emmbrook, is a small river in the English county of Berkshire. It is a tributary of the River Loddon which it meets at the village of Hurst. The Wokingham suburb of Emmbrook is named after the ...
forms its eastern boundary and the Bearwood Road its western boundary, past the wooded area around Round Hill. Built primarily in the 1980s, it contains a wide range of family homes and bungalows. Amenities include a
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supermarket, Chinese takeaway and doctor's surgery. There are also two primary schools, Hawthorns and Windmill, and two pre-schools, Chestnuts and Yellowbrick. There is a 24-hour veterinary clinic located next door to Morrisons in the building of the old surgery. The surgery has now moved to Fernlea Drive, adjacent to the Morrisons car park. In Chestnut Avenue, off Northway, there is the Woosehill Community Church.


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History of the Ashridge Exchange
Human habitats Wokingham {{Berkshire-geo-stub