Stratfield Mortimer is a village and civil parish, just south of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. 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. Reading (ˈrɛdɪŋ as Redding) is a town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, midway between 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 Berkshire (ˈbɑːkʃə or /ˈbɑːkʃɪə/ say Baak-shuh/-sheer sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a Home County in the South
Strictly speaking, the village of Stratfield Mortimer sits at the foot of Mortimer Hill which rises westward from the Foudry Brook. Foundry Brook is a small Stream in southern England. It rises near the Hampshire village of Baughurst named as Beaumonts Stream or Beaumonts It includes Mortimer railway station, the Cinnamon Tree indian restaurant (formerly the Fox and Horn public house), St Mary's Church of England parish church, Mortimer St Mary's Junior School and the headquarters of the Berkshire Federation of Women's Institutes. Mortimer railway station is a Railway station in the village of Stratfield Mortimer in the county of Berkshire in England. Position in the Church of England In England, there are parish churches for both the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church.
The much larger and better known village of Mortimer Common, commonly called Mortimer, is at the top of the hill. It has a surgery, a bank, a post office, the Church of England parish church of St John the Evangelist. Next to the church is St John's Infant School. There are also three public houses: The Turner's Arms, the Victoria Arms and the Horse and Groom. The three main roads in Mortimer are The Street, West End Road and Victoria Road. It also has a football team.
The Lockram Brook flows through the middle of the parish and there is much woodland in the area, including Starvale Woods and Holden Firs.
As Stratfield Mortimer used to be a cross-county parish, the Hampshire part was known as Mortimer West End. Wildlife Hampshire has wildlife typical of the island of Great Britain Mortimer West End is a village in north Hampshire, England. At one time part of the parish and the manor of Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire, it It is now a civil parish in its own right.
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