Mapledurham
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 Mapledurham Church and House, seen from the Watermill |
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| Mapledurham shown within Oxfordshire | |
| Area | 11.32 km2 (4.37 sq mi) |
| Population | 317 (2011 census) |
| • Density | 28/km2 (73/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SU6776 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Reading |
| Postcode district | RG4 |
| Dialling code | 01491 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Mapledurham is a small village, civil parish and country estate beside the River Thames in southern Oxfordshire. The village electorally in the wards of the United Kingdom lends its name to the adjoining Mapledurham ward of the Borough of Reading, a subdivision of that town's suburb of Caversham and in the county of Berkshire.
The village is on the north bank of the River Thames about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northwest of Reading. The only road access is by a narrow and steep lane from Trench Green on the rural road from Caversham to Goring Heath and Goring-on-Thames. Despite the fact that Mapledurham village is closer, as the crow flies, to central Reading than some of that town's suburbs, it remains a remote and rural location.
The access lane becomes the main street of the village and terminates on the bank of the River Thames, where it is surrounded by the a cluster of three significant buildings. The Church of England parish church of St. Margaret was mainly built in the 14th and 15th century, and was restored in 1863 by the Gothic Revival architect William Butterfield.Mapledurham Watermill dates from the 16th and 17th century and is the last operational watermill on the Thames. Mapledurham House, the country house that is the headquarters of the Mapledurham estate, is one of the largest Elizabethan houses in Oxfordshire. On the village street inland from these three buildings can be found the Mapledurham Almshouses, a group of six almshouses built as a memorial to Sir Charles Lister who died in 1613, and now converted into two cottages.
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