Priestwood

Priestwood

St Andrew's parish church
Priestwood
Priestwood shown within Berkshire
OS grid reference SU861697
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Bracknell
Postcode district RG42
Dialling code 01344
Police Thames Valley
Fire Royal Berkshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament

Priestwood is a suburb of Bracknell, Berkshire about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the town centre.

Churches

The original Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew was simple Gothic Revival building designed by the architect H.G.W. Drinkwater and completed in 1888.[1] After its centenary the building was demolished and replaced with a new church that was consecrated in April 1990. St. Andrew's is now part of the Bracknell Team Ministry.[2]

Bracknell Methodist Church is also in Priestwood.[3]

Amenities

Meadow Vale Primary School is in the centre of Priestwood.[4] It has begun an expansion project to enable it to have three classes in each year.[5]

Blue Mountain Golf Club is near Priestwood.[6]

Priestwood has four local nature reserves, three of them Temple Copse, Jock's Copse & Tinkers Copse are known collectively as The Three Copses.[7][8][9][10] The other Nature reserve is called Piggy Wood.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Pevsner 1966, pp. 93–94.
  2. ↑ Bracknell Team Ministry Archived 2010-01-25 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Bracknell Methodist Church
  4. ↑ Meadow Vale Primary School
  5. ↑ "Meadow Vale Expansion Project". Meadow Vale Primary School. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
  6. ↑ Blue Mountain Golf Club
  7. ↑ "The Three Copses: Parks to visit - Bracknell Forest Council". Bracknell-forest.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
  8. ↑ "Magic Map Application - Tinkers copse". Magic.defra.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  9. ↑ "Magic Map Application - Temple copse". Magic.defra.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  10. ↑ "Magic Map Application - Jocks copse". Magic.defra.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  11. ↑ Magic Map Application - Piggy Wood

Sources

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 93–94.

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