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Bothampstead
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51°29′N1°17′W / 51.48°N 01.28°W / 51.48; -01.28

Bothampstead is a hamlet in the English county of Berkshire, and within the civil parish of Hampstead Norreys. It consists of several houses and a farm. The word Bothampstead means - of 2 parts. Therefore, there is an upper and lower Bothampstead containing a few houses respectively.

The manor of Bodenhampstead was owned in succession by the De la Beches and the Langfords, and later by the families of Norris and Bertie. Subsequent owners included the Gallinis, Mathews and Pocock families. In the 19th Century Mr I.H Pocock sold the manor to George Palmer, MP for Reading. [1]

The Malthouse, Bothampstead was the site of Music Camp, an influential annual gathering of amateur musicians who tackled challenging repertoire with the aid of many professional (or future professional) musicians - including Dennis Brain, Colin Davis, John Gardner, Peter Pears and many more. [2] [3] It was founded by the physicist Bernard Robinson in 1935. Two camps of 10 days each summer took place there most years before the event moved to Pigotts in Speen, Buckinghamshire in 1966. [4] His son Nicholas Wheeler Robinson (1937-2022), was a teacher who carried on Music Camp activities in Buckinghamshire. [5] Nick Robinson wrote a memoir of his father's life. [6]

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References

  1. Money, Walter. Collections towards the history of the parish of Hampstead Norris (1885), p. 13
  2. David V Cox. 'The Music Campers', in The Musical Times, Vol. 93, No. 1313 (July 1952), p. 323-4
  3. Humphrey Burton. In My Own Time: An Autobiography (2021), p. 80
  4. Robinson, Bernard. An Amateur in Music, Countryside Books (1985), reviewed by The Musical Times, Vol. 128, No. 1734 (August 1987), p. 441
  5. Charlie Wheeler Robinson. 'Nicholas Wheeler Robinson obituary', in The Guardian, 2 September, 2022
  6. 'BWR: An Adequate Life?', reviewed by Christopher Boyce in The Speen and North Dean News, Issue 67, Autumn 2016, p. 25