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Archaeology

Album: Reading Museum Information Sheets, The http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/album/index.asp Archaeology

Alfred Castle 1998, Excavations at

http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/~glock/fieldwork/ridgeway/ac98.htm

Archaeology

Alfred Castle 1999, Excavations at

http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/~glock/fieldwork/ridgeway/ac99.htm

Archaeology

Alfred Castle 2000, Excavations at

http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/~glock/fieldwork/ridgeway/ac00.htm

Archaeology

Archaeology of Castle Hill, Wittenham Clumps http://www.oxfordarch.co.uk/wittenham_clumps/index.htm Archaeology

Ashampstead Common Geophysical Survey

http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/reports/ashampstead/

Archaeology

Bill Hill Round Barrow

http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/leisure/countryside/
heritage/billhill.htm

Archaeology

Caesar's Camp

http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/leisure/countryside/
heritage/caesarscamp.htm

Archaeology

Caesar's Camp Geophysical Survey

http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/reports/caesars_camp/

Archaeology

Great Coxwell Tithe Barn http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scripts/nthandbook.dll?
ACTION=PROPERTY&PROPERTYID=284 Archaeology

Hamstead Marshall Geophysical Survey

http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/reports/hamstead_marshall/

Archaeology

Hillforts of the Ridgeway

http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/~glock/fieldwork/
ridgeway/index.htm

Archaeology

Lower Basildon Inter-City Villa

http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/
archive/2001bas_.html

Archaeology

Marcham/Frilford 2001, Excavations at

http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/~glock/fieldwork/
ridgeway/mf01.htm

Archaeology

Oxo Online: The Oxoniensia Archive http://www.oahs.org.uk/online_contents.htm Archaeology

Reading Abbey http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/abbey.htm Archaeology

Segsbury Camp 1996, Excavations at

http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/~glock/fieldwork/
ridgeway/segs96.htm

Archaeology

Segsbury Camp 1997, Excavations at

http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/~glock/fieldwork/
ridgeway/segs97.htm

Archaeology

Sinodun Camp

http://www.northmoortrust.co.uk/

Archaeology

Steveton Priory

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scripts/nthandbook.dll?
ACTION=PROPERTY&PROPERTYID=286

Archaeology

Tower Hill Geophysical Survey

http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/reports/tower_hill/

Archaeology

Uffington White Horse http://wiltshirewhitehorses.org.uk/uffington.html Archaeology

Ufton Nervet Geophysical Survey

http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/reports/ufton_nervet/

Archaeology

West Berkshire Archaeology Timeline

http://www.westberks.gov.uk/WestBerkshire/tourism.nsf/pages/
timeline091002

Archaeology

West Berkshire Historic Sites

http://www.westberks.gov.uk/WestBerkshire/tourism.nsf/pages/
managinghistoricsites.html

Archaeology

White Horse Hill, Excavations on

http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/~glock/fieldwork/ridgeway/whh.htm

Archaeology

Windsor Castle Archaeological Review 1997

http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/ArchRev/rev96_7/wind.htm

Archaeology

Wittenhams Landscape Evolution Centre Project http://www.oxfordarch.co.uk/pages/wittenham_news.htm Archaeology

Biographies

Alfred the Great http://www.ogdoad.force9.co.uk/alfred/alfredintro.htm Biography

Chaucer Chronology: His Life and Times http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jhsy/chaucer-chron.html Biography

Down the Kennet & Avon with Jane Austen http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/jim.shead/
Down-the-KA-with-Jane-Austen.html Biography

Frank Hyde
- English Artist (1849 - 1937) http://www.angelfire.com/art2/frankhyde/index.html Biography

Hannah Snell Homepage http://www.users.bigpond.com/ShipStreetPress/Snell/ Biography

James Brydges, Duke of Chandos http://www.westberks.gov.uk/WestBerkshire/tourism.nsf/
b836fbd336b6b86f8525696c006eb0db/
6bb6de172cb87c6a80256dcc00417107?OpenDocument Biography

Jane Austen Centre in Bath

http://www.janeausten.co.uk/

Biography

Jane Austen Society of Australia

http://www.jasa.net.au/

Biography

Jane Austen Society of North America

http://www.jasna.org/

Biography

Jane Austen Society of the United Kingdom

http://www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com/

Biography

John Hampden Society, The

http://www.johnhampden.org/

Biography

Joseph Butler http://sun1.sjfc.edu/~dwhite/butler/index.html Biography

Miles Coverdale

http://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/Clergy/Oliver/31.html

Biography

Philippa Roet Chaucer http://members.cox.net/judy-perry/Philippa.html Biography

St. Frideswide

http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/index/
libraries_heritage_countryside/
oxfordshire_museums_service/virtualexhibitions/storyofoxford/
frideswide.htm

Biography

Sir Henry Unton: A Resource http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/unton/index.htm Biography

Sir John Williams: Thame Local History http://www.thamehistory.net/people/JohnWilliams.htm Biography

Stanley Spencer Website

http://www.angelfire.com/ar/stanleyspencer/

Biography

Stanley Spencer, In Appreciation of the Art of

http://www.stanleyspencer.co.uk/

Biography

Tudor Place: Who's Who in Tudor History http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/bios0.htm Biography

William Marshal: the Flower of Chivalry http://home.vicnet.net.au/~anacnaut/wmarshal/ Biography

Churches

Abingdon St. Helen's Church http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/abingdon/sthelens/ Churches

Abingdon St. Nicholas' Church http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/abingdon/stnicolas/ Churches

Arborfield Church

http://www.abch.org.uk/

Churches

Ascot Church

http://www.all-saints-ascot.org/

Churches

Barkham Church

http://www.abch.org.uk/

Churches

Binfield Church http://www.binfield-anglican.org.uk/ Churches

Bisham Church

http://www.allsaintsmarlow.org/bisham/

Churches

Bracknell Church

http://www.bracknell-parish.org.uk/

Churches

Brightwell Church http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/wallingford/ Churches

Buckland Church http://www.cherbury-gainfield.org.uk/ Churches

Charney Bassett Church http://www.cherbury-gainfield.org.uk/ Churches

Chilton Church http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/harwell/ Churches

Cholsey Church

http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/cholsey/

Churches

Clewer Church

http://www.standrewsclewer.org.uk/

Churches

Compton Church http://www.parishes.oxford.anglican.org/compton/ Churches

Cookham Church http://cookhamcofe.typepad.com/ Churches

Didcot Church http://users.ox.ac.uk/%7Ehist0089/AllSaints/ Churches

Douai Abbey http://www.douaiabbey.org.uk/ Churches

Earley Church

http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/earley/

Churches

Easthampstead Church

http://www.stmichaelseasthampstead.co.uk/

Churches

Finchampstead Church

http://www.stjames.finchampstead.co.uk/welcome.html

Churches

Fyfield Church http://www.bagpuize-fyfield.oxford.anglican.org/ Churches

Harwell Church http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/harwell/ Churches

Heathlands Church

http://www.stsebastians.org.uk/

Churches

Hinton Waldrist Church http://www.cherbury-gainfield.org.uk/ Churches

Kingston Bagpuize Church http://www.bagpuize-fyfield.oxford.anglican.org/ Churches

Longworth Church http://www.cherbury-gainfield.org.uk/ Churches

Lyford Church http://www.cherbury-gainfield.org.uk/ Churches

Maidenhead All Saints' Church

http://www.allsaintsboynehill.org.uk/index.htm

Churches

Newbury St. John's Church

http://www.saintjohn.co.uk/

Churches

Newbury St. Nicholas' Church

http://www.st-nicolas-newbury.org/

Churches

Oxford Diocese

http://www.oxford.anglican.org/

Churches

Purley Church

http://www.stmarythevirgin.fsnet.co.uk/

Churches

Pusey Church http://www.cherbury-gainfield.org.uk/ Churches

Radley Church

http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/radley/

Churches

Reading Churches http://www.readingchurches.org.uk/ Churches

Reading Greyfriars Church

http://www.greyfriars.org.uk/index.shtml

Churches

Reading St. Giles' Church

http://www.parishes.oxford.anglican.org/sgilesreading/index.html

Churches

Ruscombe Church

http://www.rustwychurch.org/

Churches

Sandhurst Church

http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/sandhurst/

Churches

Shottesbrooke Church http://www.stmaryswhitewaltham.freeserve.co.uk/ Churches

Shrivenham Church http://www.standrews-shrivenham.fsnet.co.uk/Churches.htm Churches

Sonning Church

http://www.parishes.oxford.anglican.org/sonning/

Churches

Sunninghill Church http://parishchurch.sunninghill.org.uk/ Churches

Sutton Courtenay Church http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/suttoncourtenay/allsaints.htm Churches

Theale Church http://www.holytrinitytheale.org.uk Churches

Tilehurst Church http://www.stmichaeltilehurst.org.uk/ Churches

Twyford Church

http://www.rustwychurch.org/

Churches

Wallingford St. Mary's Church http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/wallingford/ Churches

Wallingford St. Leonard's Church http://parishes.oxford.anglican.org/wallingford/ Churches

Wantage Church

http://groups.msn.com/parishofwantage

Churches

Warfield Church

http://www.warfield.org.uk/

Churches

Wargrave Church

http://www.wargrave.net/stmarys/

Churches

Watchfield Church http://www.standrews-shrivenham.fsnet.co.uk/Churches.htm Churches

Windsor Church http://www.csjbclewer.org.uk/ Churches

White Waltham Church http://www.stmaryswhitewaltham.freeserve.co.uk/ Churches

Wokingham All Saints' Church

http://www.prsotkfx.demon.co.uk/

Churches

Wokingham St. Paul's Church

http://www.stpauls-wokingham.org.uk/

Churches

Woodley Church http://www.stjohnschurch.com Churches

Wytham Church

http://mysite.freeserve.com/wythamallsaints

Churches

Councils

Abingdon Town Council

http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/

Councils

Arborfield & Newland
Parish Council http://www.arborfield.org.uk/arborfield%20page%20one.htm Councils

Bracknell Forest Borough Council

http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/index.htm

Councils

Bracknell Town Council

http://www.bracknelltowncouncil.gov.uk/

Councils

Bray Parish Council http://www.brayparishvillages.com/brayparishcouncil1.html Councils

Burghfield Parish Council http://www.burghfield.org/ Councils

Cox Green Parish Council

http://www.coxgreen.gov.uk/

Councils

Earley Town Council

http://www.earleytc.co.uk/

Councils

Finchampstead Parish Council http://www.finchampstead-pc.gov.uk/ Councils

Greenham Parish Council http://www.greenham.gov.uk/ Councils

Hurley Parish Council

http://www.hurleyparish.org.uk/

Councils

Newbury Town Council

http://www.newbury.gov.uk/

Councils

Reading Borough Council

http://www.reading.gov.uk/

Councils

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/

Councils

Shinfield Parish Council http://www.shinfieldparish.gov.uk/ Councils

South Oxfordshire District Council

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/

Councils

Speen Parish Council

http://www.speen.gov.uk/

Councils

Stratfield Mortimer Parish Council http://www.stratfield-mortimer.gov.uk/ Councils

Swallowfield Parish Council

http://www.swallowfieldpc.gov.uk/

Councils

Thatcham Town Council

http://www.thatchamtowncouncil.gov.uk/main/index.html

Councils

Tilehurst Parish Council http://www.tilehurst.net/community/tilehurst_pc.html Councils

Vale of the White Horse District Council

http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/

Councils

Wantage Town Council http://www.wantage.com/council/ Councils

Warfield Parish Council

http://www.warfieldpc.fsnet.co.uk/

Councils

West Berkshire Council

http://www.westberks.gov.uk/

Councils

Winnersh Parish Council http://www.winnersh.gov.uk/ Councils

Wokingham District Council

http://www.wokingham.gov.uk/

Councils

Woodley Town Council

http://www.woodley-tc.gov.uk/

Councils

Gentry

Ancestry of the Wilders of Sulham http://ralphinla.rootsweb.com/wildjohn.htm Gentry

Brief History of the Hippisley Family http://www.boddyparts.freeserve.co.uk/hippisleyfamily.htm Gentry

Chaucer Chronology: People, Places, and Politics http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jhsy/chaucer-ppp.html Gentry

De La Beche of Wokingham http://members.freemail.absa.co.za/aawhit/MAINNAME.HTM#de Gentry

D'Earley Family http://www.conure.co.uk/Genealogyx.html Gentry

Dolman Family http://www.westberks.gov.uk/WestBerkshire/tourism.nsf/
b836fbd336b6b86f8525696c006eb0db/
3a74a4d2cc2f80fa80256dcc0038eb47?OpenDocument Gentry

Downshire Papers, The http://proni.nics.gov.uk/records/private/dnshire.htm Gentry

Dukes of Marlborough http://www.blenheimpalace.com/Time_line_the_family.htm Gentry

Genealogy of the Fowlers http://members.aol.com/wtgmike/genealogy/
Fowlers_in_england.html Gentry

Jack of Newbury
& his Descendants http://www.geocities.com/domett2/ Gentry

Montague Millennium http://www.montaguemillennium.com/ Gentry

Notes on Medieval English Genealogy, Some http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html Gentry

Pinkney Family Site http://www.pinkney-family-site.co.uk/ Gentry

Pleydell Society, The http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~copestake/
pleyhome.html Gentry

Thames Valley Papists

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hadland/tvp/tvpcontents.htm

Gentry

Throckmorton Family http://sites.flexiblehost.com/throckmorton/ Gentry

Tudor Place: The Gentry http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Peerage3.htm Gentry

Tudor Place: The Peerage http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Peerage1.htm Gentry

Wilder Celebration Victorian Tea Party http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~chas/sulham.html Gentry

Heraldry

Visitations of Berkshire 1532, 1566, 1623 & 1665-66

http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Berkshire/
visitation/index.html

Heraldry

Historical Societies

Association of British Counties http://www.abcounties.co.uk/ Historical Societies

Berkshire Archaeological Society

http://www.berksarch.co.uk

Historical Societies

Berkshire Archaeology Research Group

http://www.barg-online.org

Historical Societies

Berkshire Family History Society

http://www.berksfhs.org.uk

Historical Societies

Berkshire Local History Association

http://www.blha.org.uk

Historical Societies

Cox Green Local History Group

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rikiknight/coxgreenhistory.html

Historical Societies

Faringdon & District Historical Society

http://www.faringdon.org/hysoc.htm

Historical Societies

Hungerford Historical Association

http://www.hungerfordhistorical.org.uk

Historical Societies

Oxfordshire Architectural & Historical Society http://www.oahs.org.uk/ Historical Societies

Thatcham Historical Society

http://www.thatchamhistoricalsociety.org.uk

Historical Societies

Wargrave Local History Society

http://www.wargrave.net/history

Historical Societies

History

Abingdon: Historical Tour http://www.localauthoritypublishing.co.uk/councils/
abingdon/history.htm History

Account of Purley on Thames http://www.purley.demon.co.uk/6-lochist/G6500accindex.htm History

Album: Reading Museum Information Sheets, The http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/album/index.asp History

Abingdon Local History & Archaeology http://www.users.waitrose.com/~mjfh/ History

Appleford, Lambourn & Cookham Parish Registers http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/PR_Index.html History

Berkshire Workhouses http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/UnionsEngland.html History

Brief History of Earley

http://www.earleytc.co.uk/history.html

History

Brief History of Moulsford http://members.iglou.com/tpayne/moulsford_history.htm History

Church Plans Online Project: Berkshire http://www.churchplansonline.org/
retrieve_results.asp?c=Berkshire&offset=0 History

Cumnor Parish Record http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/external/cumnor/ History

Domesday Book: Berkshire

http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/berkshire1.html

History

Gazetteer of Markets & Fairs to 1516: Berkshire http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/berks.html History

History of Lambourn http://www.lambourn.info/History/history.htm History

Lambourn Valley Railway http://www.lambournvalleyrailway.com/ History

Maidenhead Advertiser Online - One Thousand Years of History

http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/Millenium/

History

Major Thames Valley Crimes http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/about/
museum/major-crimes.htm History

Newbury & Crookham Golf Club History http://www.newburygolf.co.uk/history.htm History

Newbury Heritage - Local History Information http://www.westberks.gov.uk/WestBerkshire/tourism.nsf/
pages/localhistoryinformation081002 History

Oracle, Reading: History of the Site http://www.oracle-shopping.com/aboutus/history.html History

Outline of the History of Stanford-in-the-Vale http://www.stanford-in-the-vale.co.uk/history.shtml History

Oxo Online: The Oxoniensia Archive http://www.oahs.org.uk/online_contents.htm History

Pre-History of the Thames Valley Police http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/about/
museum/pre-history.htm History

RAF Greenham Common: A History http://www.megspace.com/politics/greenham/index.htm History

Reading Abbey

http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/abbey.htm

History

Royal Windsor History Zone

http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/index.html

History

Some of Reading's Early History & Berkshire Local History http://www.go-berkshire.co.uk/reading_history.htm History

Thames Valley Papists

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hadland/tvp/tvpcontents.htm

History

Thatcham: Our History http://www.localauthoritypublishing.co.uk/councils/
thatcham/history.html History

Wallingford:
A Brief History of the Town http://www.triangle.co.uk/about/wallhist.htm History

Wantage Local History 1

http://www.wantage.com/museum/Local_History_1/
local_history_1.html

History

Wantage Local History 2

http://www.wantage.com/museum/Local_History_2/
local_history_2.html

History

Legends

Newbury Spooks

http://www.newburyspooks.co.uk/

Legends

Strange Berkshire

http://www.cleaverproperty.co.uk/strange/berkshire/

Legends

Museums & Libraries

Abingdon Museum

http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/abtourism1.htm

Museums & Libraries

Berkshire Local Studies Library

http://www.readinglibraries.org.uk/rightlocal.htm

Museums & Libraries

Berkshire Record Office

http://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/

Museums & Libraries

Blake's Lock Museum

http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/galleries/blakes.htm

Museums & Libraries

Didcot Railway Centre

http://www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/

Museums & Libraries

Force Museum, The

http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/about/museum/

Museums & Libraries

Huntley & Palmer's Collection, The

http://www.huntleyandpalmers.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?
a=file&p=huntley&f=huntley.htm

Museums & Libraries

Maidenhead Heritage Centre

http://www.maidenheadheritage.org.uk/index.htm

Museums & Libraries

Museum of English Rural Life

http://www.ruralhistory.org/index.html

Museums & Libraries

Pendon Museum

http://www.pendonmuseum.com/

Museums & Libraries

Reading Bayeux Tapestry

http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/

Museums & Libraries