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Wasing
Wasing is an agricultural and woodland village, country estate and civil parish in West Berkshire, England owned almost wholly by the descendants of the Mount family. In local administration, its few inhabitants convene their own civil parish, but share many facilities with Brimpton which was in its civil parish at the time of the 2011 Census. Geography Wasing has fields on the Berkshire-Hampshire border and is approximately south-east of Newbury. Its nearest village with general amenities is Aldermaston and its nearest town is Tadley. Its western boundary is the River Enborne, which flows through the range of downs which start in the south of the parish, rising to the highest point in the south-east, Walbury Hill west. Wasing Wood Ponds is a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). History The manor of Wasing was owned by the College of the Valley Scholars in Salisbury when it was dissolved in 1542. The manor was soon sold by the Crown to Sir Humphrey Forster, a kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Dugdale
Thomas Joshua Stratford Dugdale (born 20 September 1974) is a British farmer, estate owner and documentary film-maker. Education and personal life He attended Eton College, studied economics at the University of Manchester, and law at City, University of London. He has two children, Lily and Salvador, with author Sasha Norris, and two further children, Ferdinand and Francis, with Diana Redvers, who he married in 2009. In 2016 he signed an open letter to the Times against Brexit on behalf of British business leaders, and in 2018 he became patron of the West Berkshire Mencap. Career Documentary film His 2002 film for the BBC, ''LAPD Blues'' looked at the tenure of LAPD Chief Bernard Parkes on the ten year anniversary of the LA Riots following the beating of Rodney King in 1992. Dugdale was based at the South Central Police Station where the BBC team witnessed a marked increase in the murder rate and a disillusioned police force following policies brought in by Parkes. Following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasing Wood Ponds
Wasing Wood Ponds is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Aldermaston in Berkshire. The ponds are special for their range of Odonata. Geography The site is a group of ponds, wet ditches and marshy areas partly in the Woods and partly on open ground formerly excavated for gravel. It is in two different areas, which are private land, but a public footpath crosses one of them. Fauna The site has the following animals Invertebrates * Cordulia aenea * Brilliant emerald * Sympetrum sanguineum * Erythromma najas Flora The site has the following Flora: Trees *Birch A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech- oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 3 ... References {{SSSIs Berks Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire Wasing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldermaston
Aldermaston ( ) is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. In the 2011 census, the parish had a population of 1,015. The village is in the Kennet Valley and bounds Hampshire to the south. It is approximately from Newbury, Basingstoke, and Reading and is from London. Aldermaston may have been inhabited as early as 1690 BCE; a number of postholes and remains of cereal grains have been found in the area. Written history of the village is traced back at least as far as the 9th century CE, when the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicles'' showed that the Ealdorman of Berkshire had his country estate in the village. The manor of Aldermaston was established by the early 11th century, when the village was given to the Achard family by Henry I; the manor is documented in the Domesday Book of 1086. St Mary the Virgin Church was established in the 13th century, and some of the original Norman architecture remains in the building's structure. The last resident Lord of the Manor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mount (Isle Of Wight MP)
William Mount DL of Wasing Place, Berkshire (21 November 1787 – 10 April 1869) was a British Tory politician. He was the son of William Mount (3 January 1753 – 15 June 1815) and his wife (m. 4 October 1781) Jenny (? – 11 October 1843), daughter of Thomas Page. His paternal grandfather, John Mount (? – 1786; son of William Mount and Jane Huckell), High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1770, built Wasing Place. The Mount family were in business as stationers at Tower Hill, London from the late seventeenth century. He is the great-great-grandfather of Ferdinand Mount and the great-great-great-grandfather of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron. He was educated at Eton College (1802–05) and Oriel College, Oxford (1805). William Mount was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Yarmouth from 1818 to 1819 and for Newport, Isle of Wight from 1831 to 1832. He was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire for 1826–27. He married, on 27 June 1818, Charlotte (d. 17 January 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet
Sir William Arthur Mount, 1st Baronet CBE DL (Hartley, Hampshire, 3 August 1866 – 8 December 1930) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency. He is the great-grandfather of Conservative politician David Cameron, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Early life The eldest son of William George Mount of Wasing Place, Berkshire and wife Marianne Emily Clutterbuck, he was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford where he achieved honours in classics and modern history. Career Law and politics He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1893. Between 1896 and 1903 he served as assistant private secretary to two Chancellors of Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach (later Viscount St. Aldwyn) and (from October 1902) Charles Thomson Ritchie (later Lord Ritchie of Dundee). After his father stepped down as member for the South, or Newbury division of Berkshire in 1900 he was elected and se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cylla Dugdale
Lady Cylla Dugdale (née Cecilia Mary Mount; January 15, 1931 – December 4, 2018) was a British artist and art collector. Biography Raised in Berkshire's Wasing Place, Cylla was the eldest child of Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Mount, Bt, and Elizabeth Mount (née Llewellyn). Among her notable relatives, she was the aunt of former UK prime minister David Cameron and cousin to writer Sir Ferdinand Mount. Educated at Oakdene and St Andrew's School, Pangbourne, Cylla later studied in Switzerland and pursued an agricultural diploma from Moulton College, Northamptonshire. Drawn to art, she trained under Carel Weight in London and engaged with the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her experiences spanned traveling on the and across America and working as a liaison officer at Greenham Common airbase in Berkshire. Cylla's paintings, often reminiscent of Augustus John's style, varied from portraits to landscapes. Besides being an active artist, she was a collector of 20th-century British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brimpton
Brimpton is a mostly rural village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. Brimpton is centred ESE of the town of Newbury. Toponymy One suggested origin of the name of Brimpton comes from "Brynni's Town"; Brynni was an Anglo-Saxon owner of the land. A more likely explanation is that Brimpton stands on a hill, and the name comes from a Saxo-Celtic version of "Hill Town"; the Celtic word for hill being "bryn". This name was probably coined in reference to the Iron Age settlement. Brimpton has also been recorded as Brinniggetun and Bryningtune (in the 10th century) and Brintone (in the 11th century). More recent alternative names include Brinton, Brimton, Brumton and Brumpton. Geography The village occupies a few square miles of land south of the Kennet and Avon Canal and the A4 road, and north of the Enborne which forms the southern then the eastern boundary between slopes of an escarpment where the two parts of the village are concentrated: the nucleus of the vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount & Page
Mount & Page was a firm of religious and maritime publishers that flourished in the eighteenth century. The name became well-known worldwide as an imprint of nautical charts. The firm was founded in 1701 by Richard Mount (1654–1722) and Thomas Page (active 1700-1733). Mount had previously been in partnership with his father-in-law William Fisher (1631–1692) and inherited the business on the latter's death. As Mount & Page the firm flourished throughout the 18th century and made the fortunes of both families, helped by government contracts. Successive generations of Mounts and Pages worked in the business, and the families intermarried. One of its staple titles was ''Navigatio Britannica'' by John Barrow, published in 1750 and still being advertised in 1787.ODNB entry for John Barrow ( (fl. 1735–1774)Retrieved 18 July 2011. Subscription required./ref> By the 1760s, Richard Mount's grandson John Mount (1725–1786) was able to retire to Berkshire where he built Wasing Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William George Mount
William George Mount DL (18 July 1824 – 14 January 1906) was a British landowner, Conservative politician, and the first Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.‘MOUNT, William George’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014 The son of William Mount, of Wasing Place, Berkshire, he became a Magistrate in 1851, and High Sheriff in 1877. He was narrowly elected in the general election of 1885, beating his Liberal opponent by 202 votes. He was chairman of Quarter Sessions from 1887 to 1902, and was the first Chairman of Berkshire County Council from 1889 to 1906. He served as MP for Newbury for 15 years until standing down at the 1900 general election. He was the father of Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet, brother-in-law of Richard Fellowes Benyon, MP, of Englefield and great-great grandfather to David Cameron, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Of The Valley Scholars
The College of the Valley Scholars of St Nicholas (), sometimes called the Valley College and De Vaux College, was a seat of learning in Salisbury, England. It has some claim to be seen as the first university college in England,Alan B. Cobban, ''The King's Hall Within the University of Cambridge in the Later Middle Ages'' (2007)p. 18 note 2 as it was founded three years before Merton College, Oxford, which claims to be the oldest college at Oxford.Arthur Francis Leach, ''English Schools at the Reformation 1546-8'' (1896)p. 21/ref> Background and foundation In 1238, a quarrel at Osney Abbey between University of Oxford, Oxford students and the papal legate, Otto of Tonengo, Otto Candidus, led to Oxford being put under an interdict and the university being suspended. As a result, both masters and students migrated away from Oxford, to Salisbury and Northampton, and the king took action against the offenders, who included a student named John of Bridport. In 1261, there were seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manor House
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets. The term is today loosely (though erroneously) applied to various English country houses, mostly at the smaller end of the spectrum, sometimes dating from the Late Middle Ages, which currently or formerly house the landed gentry. Manor houses were sometimes fortified, albeit not as fortified as castles, but this was often more for show than for defence. They existed in most European countries where feudalism was present. Function The lord of the manor may have held several properties within a county or, for example in the case of a feudal baron, spread across a kingdom, which he occupied only on occasional visits. Even so, the business of the manor was directed and controlled by regular mano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
