Tidmarsh
| Tidmarsh | |
| Berkshire | |
|---|---|
 The Tithe Barn | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU6374 |
| Location: | 51°28’1"N, 1°5’13"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 501 (2011) |
| Post town: | Reading |
| Postcode: | RG8 |
| Dialling code: | 0118 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Berkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Reading West |
Tidmarsh is a village in Berkshire. Its development is mainly residential or agricultural and centred on the A340 road between Pangbourne and Theale. Its rural area is bounded by the M4 motorway to the south.
Tidmarsh is to be found a mile and half south of Pangbourne, and five and half miles west of Reading. Though marsh is in its name, most of the parish is elevated more than 15 feet above the level of the River Pang.
Geography
The Sulham Woods separate the village from Tilehurst, the western suburb of Reading.
Woodland covers less than a tenth of the total area of the wider parish in which Tidmarcsh falls, most of the woodland in the west.[1]
The River Pang flows north through the village on its way to join the River Thames at Pangbourne. The river flows through the Moor Copse Nature Reserve, in December 2006 doubled in size, to about 140 acres.[2] The Tidmarsh and Sulham circular walk, of length about 2½ miles, passes through the reserve and both villages.
Its 21st century development has included housing at the north end of the village, Strachey Close.
History
The Tidmarsh section of the A340 is thought to follow the Roman road from the Roman Town of Calleva Atrebatum in Silchester parish (about 7 miles to the south), either to Dorchester-on-Thames (about 10 miels north) or a river-crossing at Pangbourne.
Tidmarsh has two main listed buildings by age. The most conspicuous is the 13th century Greyhound Pub, now reopened following a serious fire in 2005. The other is the much-rebuilt 12th Century church is dedicated to St Laurence. The Norman doorway of the church of the date of its construction is particularly noted in its listing as is a "very rare 13th century polygonal apse". It includes 13th century lancet windows to left and right.[3] It has a listing entry in the highest category listed building|under the statutory grading, Grade I.
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