| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Billingbear |
| Coordinates: | 51.4376°N -0.8079°W |
| Map Type: | Berkshire |
| Metropolitan Borough: | Bracknell Forest |
| Metropolitan County: | Berkshire |
| Region: | South East England |
| Constituency Westminster: | Bracknell |
| Post Town: | READING |
| Postcode District: | RG40 |
| Postcode Area: | RG |
| Dial Code: | 01344 |
| Os Grid Reference: | SU838724 |
Billingbear is a hamlet in the civil parish of Binfield and a former country estate in the civil parish of Waltham St Lawrence, near Bracknell, in the English county of Berkshire.[1]
The settlement lies between the M4 motorway and the village of Binfield, just north-west of Binfield Parish Church, along Carters Hill and Billingbear Lane. The country estate is immediately to the west.
See main article: Billingbear House. Billingbear Park is now the site of a large late 20th century country house and a golf course. It was previously a large area of parkland surrounding Billingbear House, a huge Elizabethan mansion erected in 1567 by Henry Neville (d. 1593). It burnt down in 1924.
Just north-east of the hamlet is Allanbay Park, a grade II listed country house set in parkland.[2] It was the home of John Lycett Wills (1910–1999) and his wife Jean Elphinstone. Wills served as High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1958. Jean was a niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and lady-in-waiting to her cousin, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. In 1955, Group Captain Peter Townsend stayed at Allanbay to avoid the press furore surrounding his relationship with the Princess.