Winkfield

Winkfield
Locks Ride in Winkfield Row
Winkfield Winkfield shown within Berkshire
Population	15,271 (2001) 14,998 (2011 Census including Burleigh)^[1]
OS grid reference	SU898711
Civil parish	Winkfield
Unitary authority	Bracknell Forest
Ceremonial county	Berkshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WINDSOR
Postcode district	SL4
Dialling code	01344
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Royal Berkshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Windsor
List of places UK England Berkshire

Winkfield is a village and civil parish in the Bracknell Forest unitary authority of Berkshire, England.

Geography

According to the 2011 census, the parish had a population of 14,998.^[1] The parish includes the hamlets of Winkfield, Maidens Green, Winkfield Row, Brockhill, Winkfield Street, Chavey Down, Woodside, Cranbourne and Swinley, part of the village of North Ascot and the Bracknell suburbs of Forest Park, Martins Heron and The Warren. The parish used to be slightly larger – additionally covering what is now Bullbrook, Crown Wood and Harmans Water – and is said to have been one of the largest in England.^[2]

Winkfield's New Lodge was the home of HRH Princess Sophia of Gloucester, a niece of King George III.

Between March 1942 and the end of World War II in June 1945 Foliejon Park in Winkfield was the residence of Haakon VII of Norway and his son, Crown Prince Olav.

At the west end of the village stands the Church of England church of St Mary's.

In the early 1960s, the United Kingdom aided a Canadian satellite mission Alouette 1 by providing the use of a ground station at Winkfield.^[3]

Winkfield has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V.

Winkfield Row has a co-educational independent preparatory school called Lambrook, for both day and boarding pupils.

1 2 "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
↑ history.php?CID=26&Title=The+Parish+of+Winkfield. Bfheritage.org.uk. Retrieved on 2013-07-17.
↑ Le Galley, Donald P. (1964), "1", in Le Galley, Donald P.; Rosen, Alan, Space Physics, University of California Engineering and Physical Sciences Extension Series, John Wiley and Sons, p. 36

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Settlements in Bracknell Forest

Towns	Bracknell Crowthorne Sandhurst

Civil parishes	Binfield Warfield Winkfield

Bracknell suburbs	Birch Hill Bullbrook Crown Wood Easthampstead Easthampstead Grange Farley Wood Forest Park Great Hollands Hanworth Harmans Water Home Farm Jennett's Park Lawrence Hill Martins Heron Priestwood Quelm Park Temple Park The Parks The Warren Warfield Park Whitegrove Wick Hill Wildridings Wooden Hill

Other villages and hamlets	Amen Corner Billingbear Brock Hill Brookside Burleigh Chavey Down College Town Cranbourne Hawthorn Hill Hayley Green Jealott's Hill Little Sandhurst Maidens Green Moss End Newell Green North Ascot Nuptown Owlsmoor Popeswood Swinley Warfield Street West End Winkfield Row Woodside

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