Three Mile Cross
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| Three Mile Cross | |
| Berkshire | |
|---|---|
 The Wesleyan Chapel, dated 1876, Three Mile Cross | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 51°24’27"N, -0°58’26"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Reading |
| Postcode: | RG7 |
| Dialling code: | 0118 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Wokingham |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Wokingham |
Three Mile Cross is a village in Berkshire to the south of Reading, and immediately north of the adjoining village of Spencers Wood.
In the 1960s, the M4 motorway was built and became an effective barrier between the village and Reading. In the 1980s, the A33 Swallowfield Bypass severed roads to the village of Grazeley lying to the west.
The village is best known as the home of the famous 19th-century author, Mary Russell Mitford who wrote a five-volume book of literary sketches entitled Our Village, which is a series of stories and essays largely about the setting and people of Three Mile Cross.
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