Mortimer West End is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in north

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, ...

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. It lies in the northernmost point of the county.

History

At one time it was the Hampshire part of the cross-county parish of

Stratfield Mortimer Stratfield Mortimer is a village and civil parish, just south of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire and unitary authority area of West Berkshire. History The manor of Stratfield dates back to the time of Edward the Confessor. The 1086 ...

(mostly in

Berkshire Berkshire ( ; abbreviated ), officially the Royal County of Berkshire, is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Oxfordshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the north-east, Greater London ...

). It became an independent ecclesiastical parish in 1870 - the church o
St Saviour
having been built in 1854 - and a

in 1894. The parish was transferred from the county of Berkshire to the county of Hampshire in 1879, producing the slight bulge in Hampshire's northern boundary.

Amenities

The village is served by a public house, the Red Lion, which is now an Italian

Gastropub A gastropub or gastro pub is a pub that serves food of high quality, with a nearly equal emphasis on eating and drinking. The term was coined in the 1990s in the United Kingdom. History The term ''gastropub'' (derived from gastronomy) was coi ...

Transport

There is a ''village link'' minibus service which serves

Pamber Heath Pamber Heath is a village in north Hampshire, England. Situated within the civil parish of Pamber, the village lies at the north end of Pamber Forest. Governance Pamber Heath is part of the parish of Pamber, which covers Pamber Heath, Pamber ...

Silchester Silchester is a village and civil parish about north of Basingstoke in Hampshire. It is adjacent to the county boundary with Berkshire and about south-west of Reading. Silchester is most notable for the archaeological site and Roman town of ...

and Mortimer West End. It is necessary to pre-book this service by contacting

Hampshire County Council Hampshire County Council (HCC) is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Hampshire in England. The council was created in 1889. The county council provides county-level services to eleven of the thirteen districts geo ...

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Lime 2/2a route also serves the village.

Calleva Atrebatum

The village is very close to the site of

Calleva Atrebatum Calleva Atrebatum ("Calleva of the Atrebates") was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads of southern Britain. The modern vi ...

which mostly lies in the parish of

. The remains of the town's amphitheatre, however, lie within Mortimer West End, and the Roman road running from Silchester northwards through the village can still be made out in parts. A short stretch of Roman road is still in use in the hamlet of Aldermaston Soke.

References

External links

Royal Berkshire History: Stratfield MortimerMortimer West End Cricket ClubSt. Saviour's C of E Church
{{authority control Villages in Hampshire Civil parishes in Basingstoke and Deane