Quelm Park is a suburb of
Bracknell, in
Berkshire
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, England.
The settlement lies west of the
A3095 road, south of the Bracknell Northern Distributor Road "Harvest Ride" and is approximately north of Bracknell town centre.
It takes its name from "Quelm Lane", an ancient thoroughfare that runs north–south through the development. "Quelm" is thought to mean "gibbet" and may be derived from the
Old English
Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...
''cwelm, cwealm'' meaning 'death, murder, slaughter'.
Quelm Park was built in the latter 1990s as a planned urban extension to Bracknell; however it lies entirely within the parish of
Warfield, forming the Quelm Ward of Warfield Parish Council.
The Quelm Stone
The Quelm Stone is a
standing stone
A menhir (; from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright rock (geology), stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the Eur ...
located near the Quelm Park Roundabout on Harvest Ride, at OS grid reference SU 8697 7087. It is made of sandstone, measures 1460mm long, 995mm wide and 260mm deep, and is estimated to weigh 1,158 kg. It is thought to have been deposited here about 14,000 years ago by a retreating glacier during the
last glacial period.
References
Populated places in Berkshire
Bracknell
Warfield
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