BURGHFIELD PARISH

Introduction

Burghfield is a village and large civil parish in West Berkshire, England, with a boundary with Reading. Burghfield can trace its history back to before the Domesday book, and was once home to three manors: Burghfield Regis, Burghfield Abbas and Sheffield (or Soefeld). Since the 1980s the population of Burghfield has nearly doubled with the construction of many new housing estates, making it a dormitory for Reading, Newbury, Basingstoke and the M4 corridor which crosses the north of the parish. Most of the former sparsely inhabited fields of the hamlet of Pingewood, in the north of the parish, are divided by the M4 motorway and have been converted, after gravel extraction in the mid to late 20th century, into lakes and are used for water sports, fishing, and other leisure activities. They are also a habitat for migrating geese, water fowl and other wildlife. A few higher gravel pits in this area have been drained, clay-lined and are used as landfill sites. Burghfield has many amenities – the majority are sports clubs and facilities, including a leisure centre.

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Parish Information

Parish statistics

Area	1,711 hectares
Population	6,115 ⁽²⁰²¹⁾
Density	357 people/km²
Mean age	38.7
Ward	Burghfield & Mortimer
District	West Berkshire
Postcodes	RG30, RG7
ONS ID	E04001158