Easthampstead
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Easthampstead is today a southern suburb of the town of Bracknell in the English county of Berkshire, although the old village can still be easily identified around the church of SS Michael and Mary Magdalene. This beautiful building houses some of the finest stained glass works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
In Easthampstead there is evidence of local Bronze Age existence in the form of a large round barrow on the top of Bill Hill. The hill itself is also surrounded by an ancient ditch, which has largely been filled in. Bill Hill now forms part of a park next to Downshire Way and it is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Originally Easthampstead was an important parish in Windsor Forest, its manor house at Easthampstead Park being a popular hunting lodge with the Royal Family. Another large and important house in the old parish is South Hill Park, one time home of Prime Minister George Canning. Still older is Caesar's Camp, the only Iron Age hill fort in East Berkshire.
Easthampstead once had its own Rural District, but it is no longer even a civil parish. Much of the southern portion of the old parish has been given to adjoining Crowthorne.
| Settlements in Bracknell Forest | |
|---|---|
| Towns: Bracknell | Crowthorne | Sandhurst | |
| Civil parishes: Binfield | Warfield | Winkfield | |
| Bracknell suburbs: Birch Hill | Bullbrook | Crown Wood | Easthampstead | Farley Wood | Great Hollands | Hanworth | Harmans Water | Home Park | Martins Heron | Priestwood | Quelm Park | Temple Park | Warfield Park | Whitegrove | Wick Hill | Wildridings | Wooden Hill | |
| Other villages and hamlets: Amen Corner | Billingbear | Brock Hill | Brookside | Burleigh | Chavey Down | College Town | Cranbourne | Forest Park | Hawthorn Hill | Hayley Green | Jealott's Hill | Lawrence Hill | Little Sandhurst | Maiden's Green | Moss End | Newell Green | North Ascot | Nuptown | Owlsmoor | Popeswood | Swinley | Warfield Street | The Warren | West End | Winkfield Row | Winkfield Street | Woodside |
