Cold Ash
| Cold Ash | |
| 240px St Mark's parish church |
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 Cold Ash
Cold Ash shown within Berkshire |
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| Area | 7.9 km2 (3.1 sq mi) |
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| Population | 4,063 (2011 census)[1] |
| – density | 514/km2 (1,330/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SU5169 |
| Civil parish | Cold Ash |
| Unitary authority | West Berkshire |
| Ceremonial county | Berkshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Thatcham |
| Postcode district | RG18 |
| Dialling code | 01635 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Royal Berkshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Newbury |
| Website | Cold Ash Parish Council |
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Cold Ash is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire centred 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Thatcham and 2.5 miles (4 km) north east of Newbury.
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History
The Church of England parish church of Saint Mark was designed by the architect C.N. Beazley and built in 1864–65.[2] It is a brick Gothic Revival building with a polygonal apsidal chancel.[2] The chancel windows have tracery in a late 13th-century Decorated Gothic style.[2] The chancel windows have stained glass: the east window by Clayton and Bell and the north and south windows by C.E. Kempe.[2]
Downe House School, a girls' boarding school, moved to Cold Ash in 1922 when it outgrew its original premises, Downe House, Charles Darwin's former home near Bromley in Kent.[citation needed] St Peter's, a red brick house built in about 1700, is now part of the school.[3]
The Cloisters was built as a Roman Catholic Convent for the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.[2] The Catholic architect Wilfred C. Mangan of Preston, Lancashire designed the chapel, which was built in 1934–36 and has a tower.[2] It is now part of Downe House School.
Amenities
Cold Ash has two public houses, the Castle Inn[4] and the Spotted Dog.[5] Cold Ash has a Women's Institute.[6] St. Mark's Church of England Primary School[7] has about 150-200 pupils in the 4–12 age range.
The village has a recreation ground with two tennis courts and space for football and cricket. The Acland Memorial Hall[8] is Cold Ash's village hall.
Demography
| Output area | Homes owned outright | Owned with a loan | Socially rented | Privately rented | Other | km² roads | km² water | km² domestic gardens | Usual residents | km² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civil parish | 484 | 592 | 95 | 123 | 25 | 0.193 | 0.012 | 1.096 | 4063 | 7.9 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Pevsner 1966, p. 117
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- ↑ The Castle Inn
- ↑ The Spotted Dog
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- ↑ Cold Ash St Mark's Primary School
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Sources and further reading
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External links
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