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Berkshire

Chapter 1: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Horace Woollaston Monckton
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A comprehensive county study presents physical geography, watersheds, rivers, soils, and climate alongside maps and geological diagrams. Natural history and land use are described, with chapters on flora, fauna, agriculture, and local industries and minerals. The narrative traces human presence from prehistoric implements through Roman and Saxon occupation to medieval and modern developments, illustrated by accounts of antiquities and archaeological sites. Architecture, communications, administration, public and educational institutions, forests, and detailed descriptions of towns and villages conclude the work, with a roll of honour and visual plates supporting local detail.

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Title: Berkshire

Author: Horace Woollaston Monckton

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BERKSHIRE ***

PHYSICAL MAP OF BERKSHIRE

The Cambridge University Press

Copyright, George Philip & Son Ltd.

CAMBRIDGE COUNTY GEOGRAPHIES
General Editor: F. H. H. Guillemard, M.A., M.D.
BERKSHIRE

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
London: FETTER LANE, E.C.
C. F. CLAY, Manager

Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET
Berlin: A. ASHER AND CO.
Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS
New York: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.

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Cambridge County Geographies
BERKSHIRE
by
H. W. MONCKTON, F.L.S., F.G.S.
With Maps, Diagrams and Illustrations
Cambridge:
at the University Press
1911

Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Windsor Castle from the North-West 2
The Ridgeway—Uffington Castle in the distance 7
The Thames near Pangbourne 10
The Thames at Maidenhead 12
The River Kennet at Hungerford 13
Crown Hill, South Ascot 16
Cookham Dean 17
Streatley from Goring 19
The Pang at Pangbourne 21
Pangbourne 22
The Thames near Abingdon 24
Diagram to illustrate the Geology of Berkshire 30
Diagram-section of the Berkshire Rocks 31
Corallian Rock, Shellingford 33
Specimen from the Reading Leaf-Bed 37
Bagshot Heath Country from Bog Hill 39
Sarsens in Gravel, Chobham Ridges 40
The Pine Plantations near Wellington College 45
Wellingtonia Avenue near Wellington College 46
Factory Girls leaving Work at Reading 58
Whitening Factory, Kintbury 61
Christ’s Hospital, Abingdon 63
White Waltham Church 64
Statue of King Alfred, Wantage 67
St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle 69
St George’s Chapel: the Interior 71
Abingdon Abbey 74
St George’s Hall: Windsor Castle 78
Statue of Queen Victoria at Windsor 79
Wayland Smith’s Cave 83
Flint Implements of the Neolithic Period found in Berkshire 84
The White Horse 87
Blewburton Hill, near Blewbury 88
St Nicholas’s Church, Abingdon 92
Abbey Gateway, Abingdon 94
North Door, Faringdon Church 96
South Door, Faringdon Church 97
Finchampstead Church 98
Faringdon Parish Church 99
The Upper Cross: East Hagbourne Village 100
Abingdon Parish Church 101
Ruins of Reading Abbey 103
Part of the Hospitium of St John, Reading Abbey 104
The Refectory, Hurley Priory 105
The Abbey Barn, Great Coxwell 106
Bisham Abbey 107
The Round Tower, Windsor Castle 110
Gateway, Donnington Castle, Newbury 112
Cottage at Cookham Dean 115
Wayside Cottages, Bisham 116
The London Road near Sunninghill 118
Hungerford Canal 120
Hambleden Weir 121
Disused Canal between Abingdon and Wantage 122
Boulter’s Lock 123
The Town Hall, Abingdon 127
The Cloth Hall, Newbury 129
The Town Hall, Wallingford 130
Royal Military College, Sandhurst 131
The Town Hall, Faringdon 132
Gate of the Old Grammar School, Abingdon 133
Ascot Race Course 136
Archbishop Laud 139
The Hoby Chapel, Bisham Church 141
Miss Mitford 144
Abingdon Bridge 146
Binfield Rectory 148
Bray Church 149
Cookham Lock 151
East Hagbourne Village 153
Hurley Church and Site of Lady Place 154
Pangbourne 156
Shottesbrook Church from the Park 158
Streatley Mill 159
Wallingford Bridge 161
The Stocks at White Waltham 163
Diagrams 165

MAPS

Berkshire, Topographical Front Cover
Berkshire,
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Geological		 Back Cover
England and Wales, showing Annual Rainfall 50

The illustrations on pages 7, 33, 61, 84, 88, 96, 106, are from photographs by Mr Llewellyn Treacher, of Twyford; those on pages 83 and 87 are from photographs by Mr H. A. King, of Reading; those on pages 37, 40, 46, 64, 74, 105, 158, 163 are from photographs by the author. The portraits on pages 139 and 144 are reproduced from photographs supplied by Mr Emery Walker; while the illustrations on pages 67, 69, 71, 92, 94, 97, 99, 100, 103, 110, 112, 122, 127, 129, 130, 132, 133, 153, 156, are from photographs supplied by the Homeland Association; and those on pages 2, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 39, 45, 58, 63, 78, 79, 98, 101, 104, 107, 115, 116, 118, 120, 121, 123, 131, 136, 141, 146, 148, 149, 151, 154, 159, 161, are from photographs supplied by Messrs F. Frith & Co., Ltd., of Reigate.