Birch Hill

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Birch Hill
Berkshire

South Hill Park Arts Centre
Location
Grid reference: SU869664
Location: 51°23’26"N, -0°45’5"W
Data
Post town: Bracknell
Postcode: RG12
Dialling code: 01344
Local Government
Council: Bracknell Forest
Parliamentary
constituency:
Bracknell

Birch Hill is a Berkshire village which has grown to be a southern suburb of Bracknell.

The Birch Hill estate was built in the 1970s on the slightly higher ground above South Hill Park, a Georgian and Victorian country house in beautiful parkland with two lakes (known locally as North Lake and South Lake), now an arts centre. Birch Hill is bounded by Hanworth to the west, Crown Wood and Forest Park to the north-east, Easthampstead to the north and Nine Mile Ride and the Crown plantations of Swinley Forest to the south.

Facilities include Birch Hill Primary School, a large supermarket near the A322, a shopping centre that also serves Hanworth, a library, community centre and the Silver Birch public house. Coral Reef Water Park [1] and the Look Out Discovery Centre [2] are nearby.

The streets in Birch Hill are named in alphabetical order. For example, the southernmost area includes from east to west Naseby, Northcott, Nutley, Oakengates, Octavia, Orion, Qualitas and Quintilis.[1]

References

  1. Philip's Street Atlas Berkshire, Philip's, 2009, ISBN 978-0-540-09294-9