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WOOLLEY GREEN BERKSHIRE Latitude and Longitude:

51°30′36″N 0°46′12″W / 51.510°N 0.770°W / 51.510; -0.770
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Woolley Green
Woolley Green is located in Berkshire
Woolley Green
Woolley Green
Location within Berkshire
OS grid reference SU8580
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51°30′36″N 0°46′12″W / 51.510°N 0.770°W / 51.510; -0.770

Woolley Green is a village to the west of Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England. [1]

Location

Woolley Green is a ribbon development along Cherry Garden Lane in the extreme north-east corner of the civil parish of White Waltham in Berkshire. [2] It sits just south of the Bath Road, immediately to the west of Junction 9b of the A404(M) and east of Littlewick Green. It is surrounded, on the north and west, by Maidenhead Thicket. The hamlet of Altwood adjoins it to the south.

Buildings

Interesting buildings in Woolley include Feens Farm, Woolley Hall and Woolley Grange. [3] Feens Farm is the old manor house of Woolley Fiennes. [3] It is said to be haunted by a Roman hunting dog, the 'Black Dog of Feens'. [3] Woolley Hall became the manor house when it was built in the 1780s. [3]

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 175 Reading & Windsor (Henley-on-Thames & Bracknell) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN  9780319232149.
  2. ^ "Ordnance Survey Election Maps". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d Ford, David Nash (2020). East Berkshire Town and Village Histories. Wokingham: Nash Ford Publishing. pp. 153–155. ISBN  9781905191017.