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Hurst, Berkshire, the Glossary

Hurst is a village in the civil parish of St Nicholas Hurst in the Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England.^[1]

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A329(M) motorway

The A329(M) is a motorway in Berkshire, England.

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Alluvium

Alluvium is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings.

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Almshouse

An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the Middle Ages.

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Bell tower

A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none.

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Berkshire

The Royal County of Berkshire, commonly known as simply Berkshire (abbreviated Berks.), is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Berkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Berkshire was a parliamentary constituency in England, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885.

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Binfield

Binfield is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, which at the 2011 census had a population of 8,689. Hurst, Berkshire and Binfield are villages in Berkshire.

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Borough of Wokingham

The Borough of Wokingham is a local government district with borough status in Berkshire, England.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.

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Country park

A country park is a natural area designated for people to visit and enjoy recreation in a countryside environment.

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Dinton Pastures Country Park

Dinton Pastures Country Park is a country park in the civil parish of St Nicholas Hurst, in the borough of Wokingham, near Reading in the English county of Berkshire.

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Earl of Buchan

The Mormaer or Earl of Buchan was originally the provincial ruler of the medieval province of Buchan.

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Eton College

Eton College is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river.

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Francis Windebank

Sir Francis Windebank (1582 – 1 September 1646) was an English politician who was Secretary of State under Charles I.

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Great Britain Historical GIS

The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801.

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Great Western Main Line

The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to.

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Henry Flitcroft

Henry Flitcroft (30 August 1697 – 25 February 1769) was a major English architect in the second generation of Palladianism.

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Henry Savile (Bible translator)

Sir Henry Savile (30 November 154919 February 1622) was an English scholar and mathematician, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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James Colleton (died 1790)

James Edward Colleton (c. 1709–1790) was a Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel in Cornwall.

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Leveson-Gower family

Leveson-Gower, also Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, is the name of a powerful British noble family.

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Liberty (division)

A liberty was an English unit originating in the Middle Ages, traditionally defined as an area in which regalian right was revoked and where the land was held by a mesne lord (i.e., an area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolved into private hands).

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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M4 motorway

The M4, originally the London-South Wales Motorway, is a motorway in the United Kingdom running from west London to southwest Wales.

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Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency)

Maidenhead is a constituency in Berkshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Joshua Reynolds, a Liberal Democrat, since 2024. Following its creation at the 1997 general election, the seat was held for twenty-seven years by Conservative Member of Parliament Theresa May, who served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016 and as Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019.

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Matthew Brettingham

Matthew Brettingham (1699 – 19 August 1769), sometimes called Matthew Brettingham the Elder, was an 18th-century Englishman who rose from modest origins to supervise the construction of Holkham Hall, and become one of the best-known architects of his generation.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Montague Blundell, 1st Viscount Blundell

Montague Blundell, 1st Viscount Blundell (19 June 1689 – 19 August 1756), known as Sir Montague Blundell, Bt, between 1707 and 1720, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1722.

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Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Parish

A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese.

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Parish church

A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish.

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Parish council (England)

A parish council is a civil local authority found in England, which is the lowest tier of local government.

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Pre-school Learning Alliance

The Pre-school Learning Alliance (PLA) is an early-years educational registered charity and a voluntary sector provider of childcare for young children in England.

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Pre-school playgroup

A pre-school playgroup, or in everyday usage just a playgroup, is an organised group providing care and socialisation for children under five.

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Preparatory school (United Kingdom)

A preparatory school (or, shortened: prep school) in the United Kingdom is a fee-charging private primary school that caters for children up to approximately the age of 13.

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Preschool

A preschool (sometimes spelled as pre school or pre-school), also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, play school or creche, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school.

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Primary school

A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).

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Richard Warde

Sir Richard Warde (died 1578) was an English politician and royal official.

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River Loddon

The River Loddon is a tributary of the River Thames in southern England.

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Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire.

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School breakfast club

A school breakfast club is a provision for children to eat a healthy breakfast in a safe environment before their first class.

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Tributary

A tributary, or an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake.

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Twyford railway station

Twyford railway station serves the large village of Twyford in Berkshire, England.

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Twyford, Berkshire

Twyford is a large village and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham in Berkshire, England. Hurst, Berkshire and Twyford, Berkshire are borough of Wokingham and villages in Berkshire.

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A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national government.

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Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurst,_Berkshire

Also known as Dolphin School (Berkshire), Dolphin School Hurst (Berkshire), Hurst (Berkshire), St Nicholas Hurst, St Nicholas Pre-School Playgroup, St. Nicholas, Hurst.

, Windsor (UK Parliament constituency), Winnersh, Wokingham.

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