Wash Water

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Wash Water
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The Woodpecker public house near Wash Water
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Wash Water
Location within Berkshire
OS grid reference SU451635
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NEWBURY
Postcode district RG10
Dialling code 01635
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Berkshire
51°22′09″N1°21′28″W / 51.369152°N 1.357884°W / 51.369152; -1.357884 Coordinates: 51°22′09″N1°21′28″W / 51.369152°N 1.357884°W / 51.369152; -1.357884

Wash Water is a hamlet on the border of Berkshire, and Hampshire. [1] It is divided between the civil parishes of Enborne (where according to Grid Refs the majority of the population at the 2011 Census was included), Newbury, Highclere and East Woodhay. The settlement lies adjacent to the A343 and A34 highways (Newbury Bypass), approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south-south-west of Newbury.

Some locals claim it is named after the spot on the River Enborne where women washed the troops' clothes during or after the First Battle of Newbury of the English Civil War, others say it is because wool was washed in the local rivers before fulling in the two nearby mills.

Village facilities include a public house called the Woodpecker Inn, [2] formerly the Derby Arms.

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References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 174 Newbury & Wantage (Hungerford & Didcot) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN   9780319228739.
  2. "Woodpecker Arms". www.arkells.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.