Ashmore Green

Ashmore Green
Hamlet
The Sun in the Wood (closed since 2018)[1]
Ashmore Green Location within Berkshire
OS grid reference	SU5069
Shire county	Berkshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	RG18
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Royal Berkshire
Ambulance	South Central

Ashmore Green is a small hamlet in Berkshire, England.^[2][3] It is situated just to the west of the village of Cold Ash and to the north of Thatcham in the West Berkshire district.

Etymology

The name Ashmore Green is probably of Old English origin, meaning "ash tree covered moor". The ash tree held significance for the Saxons due to the mythical Yggdrasil and the ash tree being sacred to the god Wōden.^[4] Ash trees are common in Berkshire, as is reflected in other settlement names such as nearby Cold Ash and Ashampstead, as well as Ashford Hill and Ashmansworth in bordering Hampshire and Ashbury in Oxfordshire.

History

Ashmore Green is first mentioned in a deed in 1549 from Jack O'Newbury to his son Henry.^[5] It is believed the Parliamentary Army stayed in fields near Ashmore Green during the Second Battle of Newbury in 1644.^[6] Ashmore Green was first noted on a map in 1761 spelled "Ashmoor Green". The area was largely moorland and heath until it began to be populated in the 1800s.^[7] In 1886, a baptist chapel was built in the centre of Ashmore Green, on Stoney Lane. It closed in the 1960s.^[7] In 1894, Ashmore Green became part of the Cold Ash civil parish.^[8] The population of the Ashmore Green and Cold Ash area nearly doubled between 1900 and 1939, with a major expansion after World War II.^[5] The local pub, The Sun in the Wood, built around 1900, closed in 2018.^[1]

Nearby Settlements

• Cold Ash
• Thatcham
• Newbury
• Reading
• Shaw
• Curridge

References

1. "Cold Ash councillors don't object to plans for The Sun in the Wood". www.newburytoday.co.uk/. Newbury Today. 28 April 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
2. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 174 Newbury & Wantage (Hungerford & Didcot) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319228739.
3. "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
4. "Yggdrasil". norse-mythology.org/cosmology/yggdrasil-and-the-well-of-urd/. Archived from the original on 25 May 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
5. "Cold Ash and Ashmore Green village design statement". www.westberks.gov.uk. West Berkshire council. 1 May 2002. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
6. "Cold Ash and Ashmore Green pathusers". Cold Ash Parish Council. Archived from the original on 15 July 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
7. "Ashmore Green". visitoruk.com. VisitorUk. Archived from the original on 12 July 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
8. "Thatcham Parishes". www.british-history.ac.uk/. British History Online. 1923. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.

External links

Media related to Ashmore Green at Wikimedia Commons