Sulham is a village in
West Berkshire
West Berkshire is a local government district in Berkshire, England, administered from Newbury by West Berkshire Council.
History
The district of Newbury was formed on 1 April 1974, as a merger of the borough of Newbury, Bradfield Rural Dist ...
, England. The larger village of
Tidmarsh is adjacent to Sulham on the west side, with
Tilehurst on the east side.
Governance
The two villages of Sulham and Tidmarsh share the combined
civil parish council of
Tidmarsh with Sulham with most
local government
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functions carried out by the West Berkshire council.
Geography
From the west, Sulham is surrounded by the
civil parishes
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of Tidmarsh,
Pangbourne
Pangbourne is a large village and civil parish on the River Thames in Berkshire, England. Pangbourne has its own shops, schools, a railway station on the Great Western main line and a village hall. Outside its grouped developed area is an ...
,
Purley-on-Thames and Tilehurst to the east. To the south is
Theale
Theale () is a large village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England, southwest of Reading and 10 miles (16 km) east of Thatcham. The compact parish is bounded to the south and south-east by the Kennet & Avon Canal (which here incorpo ...
which has the local roads' junction with the
M4 motorway
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.
Sulham Woods and a lengthwise
escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.
The terms ''scarp'' and ''scarp face'' are