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Arborfield Hall was a large country house on the banks of the River Loddon near the village of Arborfield in Berkshire. History [ edit ] The site originally contained a manor house, which was occupied by the Bullock family from the early 13th century. [1]
The Hall became a great centre of village life and her son sold up in 1926. The Hall was occupied by both the RAF and the American forces during the Second World War and never recovered from the experience. It was demolished by the University of Reading in 1955. A much smaller house called 'Aberleigh' now stands on the site.
Arborfield is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Arborfield and Newland, in the Borough of Wokingham in Berkshire, England. It is about 5 miles (8 km) south-east of Reading, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Wokingham. It lies about 1 mile (2 km) west of the village of Arborfield Cross and the two villages have become ...
Arborfield Hall The Hall had been in existence for several hundred years in some form or other until the 1950's when it was demolished. Berkshire Record Office has a Manor and Estate Map from 1810 when the Hall was owned by George Dawson, and the Local History Society has transcribed the 'terrier' (list of land holdings).
John Conroy. Administrador principal del príncipe Eduardo de Kent. John Ponsonby Conroy (1786-1854) fue un oficial del ejército británico que ejerció como administrador de la duquesa de Kent y su hija, la futura reina Victoria del Reino Unido . Conroy nació en Gales de padres irlandeses, y tras ir escalando puestos en el mundo militar, se ...
The parish of Arborfield has an area of 1,468½ acres, of which nearly two-thirds are arable land and about one-third permanent grass. There is only a small amount of woods and plantations. (fn. 1) The soil is clay and gravel with a subsoil of London clay and the principal crops are wheat and barley. The average height of most of the parish is ...
There was a WWII decoy site in the grounds of Arborfield Hall known as a ‘Starfish’ ('SF' - standing for 'Special Fire'). These sites were so top-secret that they remained classified for decades after 1945, but a book written in 2000 tells the whole story about the decoys: ‘Fields of Deception’ by Colin Dobinson (Methuen, 2000.
