Silchester is a village and civil parish in the English county of Hampshire. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. A civil parish in the United Kingdom is a unit of local government. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Wildlife Hampshire has wildlife typical of the island of Great Britain It is best known for the adjacent archaeological site and Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum, which was first occupied by the Romans in about AD 45 and which includes what is thought to be the best-preserved Roman wall in Great Britain. Calleva Atrebatum (or Silchester Roman Town) was an Iron Age Oppidum and subsequently a Town in the Roman province of Britannia Year 45 was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Julian calendar. The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands
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Location
Silchester is located at grid reference SU627620, ten miles south-west of Reading and five miles north of Basingstoke. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States Reading (ˈrɛdɪŋ as Redding) is a town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, midway between Basingstoke is a town in northeast Hampshire, England It lies across a Valley at the source of the River Loddon. The village is sometimes referred to as Silchester Common as that is where it stands, some distance from the parish church and the old manor (now Manor Farm) just within the eastern walls of the Roman town. Position in the Church of England In England, there are parish churches for both the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church.
Local government
Silchester is a civil parish with an elected parish council. Silchester parish falls within the area of Basingstoke and Deane District Council and of Hampshire County Council and all three councils are responsible for different aspects of local government. See also Basingstoke and Deane local elections Wildlife Hampshire has wildlife typical of the island of Great Britain At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 918. A nationwide Census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001 In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology
Amenities
Silchester has its own primary school, but children aged 11 to 16 that receive normal (state-funded) education are likely to attend The Hurst Community College in Baughurst. The Hurst Community College, previously The Hurst Community School, is a school in the village of Baughurst, which is in the county of Hampshire in England Baughurst is a parish in Hampshire, England located just west of the town of Tadley, and 6 Miles north of Basingstoke.
The medieval parish church of St Mary stands just within the old Roman walled town, probably on the site of a Roman temple. A temple (from the Latin word Templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities such as prayer and sacrifice or analogous rites It has a fine rood screen, an interesting canopied pulpit and several minor church monuments. A pulpit (from Latin pulpitum "scaffold" "platform" "stage" is a small elevated platform where a member of the clergy stands A church monument is an architectural or sculptural Memorial to a dead person or persons located within a Christian church
The village public house is called the Calleva Arms, a reference to Calleva Atrebatum, the large town Roman town lying near the present village. Calleva Atrebatum (or Silchester Roman Town) was an Iron Age Oppidum and subsequently a Town in the Roman province of Britannia There is an active community with regular events and village activities through the year including a fun run, village fair, barn dance and music festival. Pictures of these and many other community events can be seen at Pete's Silchester Pages. The village is also famed for the amateur dramatic society, the 'Silchester Players'.
External Links
- Roman remains
- Silchester Cricket Club compete in the *Hampshire Cricket League (finishing 13th in Division 3 North East 2007 season)
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