page_title: East Woodhay
section_title: East Woodhay: 1900 (circa)
hierarchical_section_title: East Woodhay / History / East Woodhay: 1900 (circa)
caption_attribution_description: English: photo of Bourne House's roof from the east, by R.W. de Salis, 2005. User:RodolphRodolph 02:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
context_page_description: East Woodhay is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, situated approximately 6 miles south-west of Newbury in Berkshire. As of the 2001 census, it had a population of 2,794, increasing to 2,914 at the 2011 Census.
  The parish of East Woodhay contains a number of villages and hamlets, including Ball Hill, Heath End, Hatt Common, Woolton Hill and East End. The last two contain schools: Woolton Hill Junior School, St Thomas's Church of England Infant School, and St. Martin's Church of England Primary School. The parish also has a small, triangular village green containing a war memorial and was once the site of the village stocks.
  Woolton Hill also has a local village shop and post office and has "The Chase" which is administered by The National Trust.
  The dialling code is 01635, the postcode is RG20, part of the postal district of Reading, also in Berkshire. The district council, Basingstoke and Deane, is in Hampshire.
context_section_description: East Woodhay as mentioned in Highways and Byways in Hampshire, by D. H. Moutray Read, Macmillan & Co, London, 1908:
  Afterwards the ladies met, and corresponded with every sign of mutual liking, a regards evidently not extended to Miss Pokckie; "such a low-bred, narrow-spirited woman", Dean Lyttleton wrote to Mrs Montagu, that she "would disgrace an episcopal house."  The highly classical education on which her brother throve, appears to have had unhappy results for the sister!
  To appreciate Highclere one should not come down by the path of the downs but alight from a railway train and drive from Woodhay Station up the gravel road, by the fine timber, and through the large village of trim villas in a station cab!  Wild spaces and dreams of primitive men accord but ill with orderly parterres and velvet lawns, and in the country along the Berkshire border we find again a modern England we all know and some us do not care about, the England of "desirable residences within easy reach of the railway station", and "on gravel soil," not forgetting "with fine views"; and the sport if the "sport" of syndicates.  But as the railway line is left behind the country grows wilder, and the Downs are again approached; the rough lanes twine and tumble in and over the spurs and valleys that run up the dominating heights of Walbury and Inkpen.  On one such rise stands the church of East Woodhay, well above that village.  The grey, ivy-covered stones in the graveyard look venerable enough, but the church, as a table on the tower announces, was rebuilt in 1823, and the only possible word in its favour is that the brick of which its partly composed gives a touch of colour among the elms of the litten, where the rooks caw evident approval of the water-wheel that protrudes itself within a few feet of the tower.  But if the church belongs to the genteel age of architecture, the yew by the rectory is said to have been planted by Bishop Ken, when that old friend of Rector Isaac Mills held the living.
  A good deal of "pleasant modern glass" by designer Louise Davies (1919) is found in the East Window at Saint Martin's Church.
  Woodhay railway station, which closed on 7 March 1960, was built on the former Woodhay heath in the north-eastern Broad Laying, Woolton Hill corner of the parish. It also served Wash Water and Enborne over the border in Berkshire.
caption: 1870-1920s roof near Hatt Common
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