Place:Enborne, Berkshire, England

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Enborne is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.

It is situated just to the west of Newbury in West Berkshire. The River Enborne shares its name, although it does not run through the village; rather, it runs through the nearby village of Enborne Row.

Enborne is both a civil and an ecclesiastical parish in Berkshire, England. It is very roughly rectangular in shape and comprises rather fewer than 2,500 acres (1,012 hectares), having lost some of its eastern territory to Newbury's twentieth-century expansion. The village name has had many variant spellings in the past, including Anebourne in 1086, and Enbourne, Enborn, Enbourn in the last 200 years. The parish lies immediately west of Newbury in West Berkshire, and contains the settlements of Redhill, Crockham Heath, Skinner's Green, Enborne Row and Washwater. There is no main population centre; the settlements are scattered. The River Enborne marks the southern boundary of the parish, where Berkshire joins Hampshire. The northern boundary is the railway line. Newbury lies to the east, and the parish of Hamstead Marshall to the west. The Kennet & Avon Canal passes across the northern end of the parish, together with the river Kennet. The parish has always been, and still is, mostly agricultural in character, with substantial woodland and private parkland. However, in recent years, many of Enborne's former farmsteads have been redeveloped into housing. Enborne has never had a train station, but from the 1880s to the 1960s Enborne Junction marked the forking off of the Didcot to Southampton railway line from the main GWR line. This now-disused line became the route of the Newbury bypass (A34). Environmental protest against the building of this bypass in the late 1990s brought Enborne into media prominence. Enborne's parish church is of twelfth-century origin, dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. There is a Church of England primary school, founded in the 1820s. There is also a pub, the Craven Arms, which certainly dates back to the early eighteenth century and probably much earlier.

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