Wasing

St Nicholas' Church

Wasing is an agricultural and woodland hamlet and parish in West Berkshire, England owned almost wholly by one family. In minor local administration such as footpaths and field sports facilities its few people convene their own civil parish occasionally but share many facilities with Brimpton which was its civil parish at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011.

Geography and Wasing Place

It has fields on the Berkshire-Hampshire border and is approximately 7.5 miles (12.1 km) south-east of Newbury, its post town. Its nearest village with general amenities is Aldermaston and nearest town is Tadley. The village is generally elevated, but it also has fields. Its western boundary is the River Enborne, which flows through the range of downs starting at the south of the parish which rises to the highest point in the south-east, Walbury Hill 5 miles (8.0 km) west.

Its land, including woodland, is largely owned. Its manor is centred on a manor house which was purchased in 1759 by the London nautical publisher John Mount. He built the mansion Wasing Place, completed in 1770, which became the home of his descendants the MPs, William Mount, William George Mount and Sir William Mount. The house was rebuilt after a fire in 1945.

Wasing, cattle in the park, summer 2013, looking approximately along the line of the Roman road from Speen to Silchester.

The tall, white Georgian manor house has a 180° panorama. Its park to the north and it are listed, in the initial category, Grade II^[1] and the adjacent church, remaining almost a private chapel due to its isolation, is at Grade I, the highest category.^[2] Accordingly, these buildings host weddings, business functions, private dining and events. Groups are permitted to shoot partridge and pheasant or go fishing in private woodside ponds on a paid basis. Paths off the public rights of way are available for walking and riding subject to the purchase of annual permits.

For four consecutive years, the Wasing Estate as the manor trades itself has played host to The Glade Festival, an electronic dance music festival which originally started out as a stage at Glastonbury Festival. The annual festival takes place over three days in the summer and attracted around 13,000 people in 2005.

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• Wasing Estate

Settlements in West Berkshire
Towns	Hungerford Newbury Thatcham (All are civil parishes and have Town Councils)
Civil parishes	Aldermaston Aldworth Ashampstead Basildon Beech Hill Beedon Beenham Boxford Bradfield Brightwalton Brimpton Bucklebury Burghfield Catmore Chaddleworth Chieveley Cold Ash Combe Compton East Garston East Ilsley Enborne Englefield Farnborough Fawley Frilsham Great Shefford Greenham Hampstead Norreys Hamstead Marshall Hermitage Holybrook Inkpen Kintbury Lambourn Leckhampstead Midgham Padworth Pangbourne Peasemore Purley-on-Thames Shaw-cum-Donnington Speen Stanford Dingley Stratfield Mortimer Streatley Sulham Sulhamstead Theale Tidmarsh Tilehurst Ufton Nervet Wasing Welford West Woodhay West Ilsley Winterbourne Wokefield Woolhampton Yattendon
Other villages and hamlets	Aldermaston Wharf Ashmore Green Avington Bagnor Beansheaf Farm Beedon Common Benham Hill Bloomfield Hatch Brightwalton Green Brimpton Common Burghfield Bridge Burnt Hill Calcot Chapel Row Colthrop Crockham Heath Crookham Downend Donnington Eastbury Eddington Elcot Eling Enborne Row Fords Farm Goddard's Green Halfway Heads Hill Hell Corner Hoe Benham Honey Bottom Hungerford Newtown Hunts Green Hyde End Inkpen Common Lambourn Woodlands Little Heath Lower Basildon Lower Denford Lower Padworth Marlston Marsh Benham Midgham Green Mortimer/Mortimer Common Ownham Padworth Common Shaw Shefford Woodlands Snelsmore South Fawley Stockcross Upper Basildon Upper Denford Upper Eddington Upper Lambourn Upper Woolhampton Wash Common Wash Water Weston Wickham Wickham Heath Woodlands St Mary Woodspeen World's End

Coordinates: 51°22′N 1°10′W / 51.367°N 1.167°W / 51.367; -1.167