In 870, the village was the site of the Battle of Englefield. This was fought between the Anglo-Saxons, under Æthelwulf, Ealdorman of Berkshire, and the Danes, and resulted in a resounding victory for the Saxons. The battle was the first of a series in the winter of 870–1. The village may have been named after the battle, Englefield meaning "English field".
The place-name 'Englefield' is first attested in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle for 871, where it appears as Engla feld. It appears as Englefel in the Domesday Book of 1086, and as Englefeld in the Feet of Fines for 1196. The name indicates settlement by the Angles in Saxon territory.[2]
Englefield House was the home of the Englefield family, supposedly from the time of King Edgar and certainly until the Elizabethan era when the present building was erected. The house eventually passed to the Benyon family, as part of the largest privately owned estate in West Berkshire.[3]
Village
In the late 19th century, Richard Fellowes Benyon rebuilt the villagers' houses as a model estate village and provided them with such amenities as a swimming pool, soup kitchen and a new school. Today the estate, owned by a family company, the Englefield Estate, covers some 20,000 acres (8,100 ha).[citation needed] The village relies on and contributes to the amenities and organisations in Theale and Tilehurst as well as Reading which bound it to the south and east.
Demography
2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005[1]
Output area
Homes owned outright
Owned with a loan
Socially rented
Privately rented
Other
km2 roads
km2 water
km2 domestic gardens
Usual residents
km2
Civil parish
14
8
9
65
28
0.147
0.109
0.124
286
9.25
References
^ ab. Archived from the original on 11 February 2003. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.167.
^"The thirty landowners who own half a county". Who owns England?.
External links
Media related to Englefield, Berkshire at Wikimedia Commons
St Mark's Englefield
Englefield Village Hall
February 20, 2023
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