Everything about Streatley Berkshire totally explained
Streatley is a
village and
civil parish on the
River Thames in the
English county of
Berkshire.
Location
Streatley is located some from
Reading and from
Oxford. It is attractively situated nestling in the
Goring Gap on the
River Thames and is directly across the river from the
Oxfordshire village of
Goring-On-Thames. The two villages are connected by
Goring and Streatley Bridge, with its
adjacent lock and weir, and are often considered as a single settlement. The two villages share
Goring & Streatley railway station on the line from Reading to Oxford, although the station is actually situated in Goring.
Nearby towns and cities: Oxford,
Reading,
Wallingford
Nearby villages: Aldworth,
Goring-on-Thames,
Lower Basildon,
Moulsford,
Pangbourne
Government
Streatley is a civil parish with an elected parish council. Besides the riverside village of Streatley, the parish an area of the Berkshire Downs to the east, and includes the
hamlet of
Stichens Green.
The parish is bordered to the north and east by the Oxfordshire parishes of
Moulsford,
South Stoke and
Goring. To the west and south it's bordered by the Berkshire parishes of
Basildon,
Ashampstead and
Aldworth.
The parish falls within the area of the
unitary authority of
West Berkshire. Both the parish council and the unitary authority are responsible for different aspects of local government. The parish also forms part of the
Newbury parliamentary consituency.
Public House
Streatley contains only one public house, The Bull at Streatley which was made famous by Jerome K Jerome's '3 men in a boat', it serves a great variety of beers and ales for all customers that visit the village. Food and accommodation is available here also. The Bulls garden is also the rather unusual burial site of a monk and a nun executed in 1440 for 'misconduct'.
Miscellany
The Ridgeway long distance path passes through the village.
There is a
Youth hostel in the village. The nearest other hostels are in
Wantage (14 miles) and
Oxford (19 miles).
There was a
bicycle bomb in the village in 1979. It was apparently the work of the
IRA.
Further Information
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