Yattendon

Yattendon
Berkshire
Yattendon village
Location
Grid reference:	SU554745
Location:	51°28’1"N, 1°12’11"W
Data
Population:	331
Post town:	Thatcham
Postcode:	RG18
Dialling code:	01635
Local Government
Council:	West Berkshire
Parliamentary constituency:	Newbury

Yattendon is a village in Berkshire, seven miles northeast of Newbury. The M4 motorway passes about half a mile south of the village.

The parish stretches from Everington in the west to the hamlet of Burnt Hill in the east and the woodland just east of Yattendon Court, including Mumgrove Copse, Bushy Copse, Clack's Copse and Gravelpit Copse. The M4 motorway curbs the southern edge of the parish.

The River Pang flows through the west of the parish if not through Yattendon itself.

History

The village once had a fortified manor house or castle, named Yattendon Castle. It has been the home of several famous or infamous men, and belonged to the Norreys family from Tudor times. Amongst the men of the village have been Sir Henry Norreys (a courtier accused of adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn) and his son Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, Ambassador to France, and his son in turn Sir John Norreys, the greatest soldier of Elizabethan England whose memorial is in the parish church.

• Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe, the newspaper magnate who lived at Yattendon Court. From 1925 to 1940, he amalgamated several small farming estates and formed the Yattendon Estate in 1955. It covers nearly 9,000 acres of farmland, woodland, grazing and Christmas tree plantations.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Yattendon)

• Royal Berkshire History: Yattendon
• Royal Berkshire History: Yattendon Castle
• Royal Berkshire History: Yattendon Court
• Yattendon Estate