Wick Hill, Bracknell

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Wick Hill
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Wick Hill
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Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BRACKNELL
Postcode district RG12
Dialling code 01344
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51°25′18″N0°44′27″W / 51.421679°N 0.740809°W / 51.421679; -0.740809 Coordinates: 51°25′18″N0°44′27″W / 51.421679°N 0.740809°W / 51.421679; -0.740809

Wick Hill is a suburb of Bracknell, in Berkshire, England.

Bracknell town and civil parish in Berkshire, England

Bracknell is a large town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, the westernmost area within the Greater London Urban Area and the administrative centre of the Borough of Bracknell Forest. It lies 11 miles (18 km) to the east of Reading, 9 miles (14 km) south of Maidenhead, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Windsor and 34 miles (55 km) west of central London.

Geography

The settlement lies north of the A329 road between Bullbrook and Priestwood and is approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north-east of Bracknell town centre. In contrast to these areas Wick Hill was built as privately owned, largely detached, housing.

A329 road

The A329 is an east-west road in Southern England that runs from Wentworth in Surrey to Thame in Oxfordshire. The A329 starts at the A30 in Surrey and passes through Ascot, Bracknell, Wokingham, Earley, Reading, Purley, Pangbourne, Lower Basildon, Streatley, Moulsford and Wallingford. It connects to junction 7 of the M40 before finally ending at a junction with the A418 at Thame.

Bullbrook village in United Kingdom

Bullbrook is a suburb of Bracknell, in the English county of Berkshire, formerly part of the parish of Winkfield. It is named after the Bull Brook which runs through the area, although most of the brook now runs underground in culverts. Bullbrook is one of the earlier estates of Bracknell and was built in the late 1950s.

Priestwood village in the United Kingdom

Priestwood is a suburb of Bracknell, Berkshire about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the town centre.

The area includes Wick Hill House, a residence of 19th-century explorer St. George Littledale, [1] [2] since converted to apartments. Other areas of housing are surrounded by the walls of former Edwardian residence built in 1835.

St. George Littledale English explorer

Clement St. George Royds Littledale (1851–1931) and his wife Teresa Harris (Scott)(1839–1928) were known in their time as the greatest British Central Asia travellers of the nineteenth century. Littledale is also considered by many hunters to be one of the greatest big game hunters of all time. He hunted horned game, the sheep and goats, that lived in the mountains of the northern hemisphere, and he collected for the Natural History Museum in London.

The suburb has a local nature reserve called Whitegrove Copse. [3]

Local nature reserve (LNR) is a designation for nature reserves in Great Britain. The designation has its origin in the recommendations of the Wild Life Conservation Special Committee which established the framework for nature conservation in the United Kingdom and suggested a national suite of protected areas comprising national nature reserves, conservation areas, national parks, geological monuments, local nature reserves and local educational nature reserves.

Whitegrove Copse is a local nature reserve within Wick Hill. The nature reserve is owned and managed by Bracknell Forest Borough Council.

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Garth Hill College is a secondary school in Bracknell, England and is on the same site as the Wick Hill Centre, which is now part of Bracknell and Wokingham College. It was created as Garth Hill School in September 1969 from an amalgamation of Wick Hill Secondary Modern School and neighbouring Garth Grammar School, the name of the latter referring to a former local fox hunt. The school underwent a £40 million rebuild in 2010, opened by HRH Princess Anne the same year. The School has recently gained yet another new building for the sixth form of Garth Hill, costing £6 million and opened in 2015 by the Mayor of Bracknell.

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References

  1. ↑ "Warfield Hamlets from Hawthorn Hill to Wick Hill". Royal Berkshire History. Nash Ford Publishing. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
  2. ↑ Hunters' Improvement Society. "Record of mares & sires : containing the registered entries of 13 hunter stallions and 303 hunter mares and fillies". American Libraries. The Internet Archive. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
  3. ↑ "Magic Map Application". Magic.defra.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 April 2017.


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