Woodside, Berkshire (hamlet) explained

Country:England
Official Name:Woodside
Coordinates:51.4338°N -0.6602°W
Map Type:Berkshire
Population:500
Population Ref:(2021 Census)
Area Total Km2:0.2625
Unitary England:Bracknell Forest
Unitary England1:Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Shire County:Berkshire
Region:South East England
Post Town:Windsor
Postcode District:SL4
Postcode Area:SL
Dial Code:01344
Static Image Name:Kiln Lane, Woodside - geograph.org.uk - 130891.jpg
Static Image Caption:Kiln Lane, Woodside, in 2006
Os Grid Reference:SU930715

Woodside is a hamlet in Berkshire, England, within the civil parishes of Winkfield and Sunninghill and Ascot in the boroughs of Bracknell Forest and Windsor and Maidenhead. The settlement lies near to the A332 road and is approximately 1.5miles north-east of Ascot Racecourse and largely surrounded by Windsor Great Park. In the early Twentieth Century the south of the hamlet was the site of the Ascot Brick Works. It has two pubs The Rose and Crown and the Duke of Edinburgh but no shops or church, as such it is probably best described as a hamlet and not a village. It features several historic houses and buildings (mostly in the northern part of the hamlet). In the 19th and early 20th Century there were two distinct hamlets:

Nowadays the name Woodend has all but disappeared as a descriptor of any part of the hamlet and Woodside is applied to the whole hamlet. The parish and borough boundaries still run through the middle of the Woodside and right through the centre of the Duke of Edinburgh public house. This boundary also runs along a bridleway called Hodge Lane and the old granite boundary markers are still there to be seen, they reflect the historic boundary between the Royal land (now Windsor and Maidenhead) and the East Hampstead land (now Bracknell Forest). The Thatched Cottage in Woodside Village is said to have once been the residence given to the Headmaster of Cranbourne School.

In 2021 it had a population of 500.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Woodside. City Population De. 15 November 2022.