Country: | England |
Static Image Name: | PlayHatch - geograph.org.uk - 65915.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | View of the road through Playhatch |
Coordinates: | 51.4828°N -0.9331°W |
Official Name: | Playhatch |
Civil Parish: | Eye & Dunsden |
Shire District: | South Oxfordshire |
Shire County: | Oxfordshire |
Region: | South East England |
Constituency Westminster: | Henley |
Post Town: | Reading |
Postcode District: | RG4 |
Postcode Area: | RG |
Dial Code: | 0118 |
Os Grid Reference: | SU7476 |
Website: | Eye & Dunsden Parish Council |
Playhatch (or Play Hatch) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in South Oxfordshire, England, about 2miles northeast of Reading, Berkshire.
Before 1866, Playhatch formed part of the Oxfordshire section of Sonning civil parish. Berry Brook starts close to the Redgrave-Pinsent Rowing Lake to the southwest, running northeast through the River Thames floodplain past Playhatch, under the B478 Playhatch Road near the Sonning Works, before joining the river at Hallsmead Ait.
Just south of the hamlet is the Redgrave-Pinsent Rowing Lake. The hamlet has three public houses: