Grazeley Green
| Grazeley | |
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 Diddenham Court, Grazeley, formerly part of Diddenham Manor Farm |
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 Grazeley
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| Grazeley shown within Berkshire | |
| Population | 280 (Census 2001) |
| OS grid reference | SU698668 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | READING |
| Postcode district | RG7 |
| Dialling code | 0118 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Royal Berkshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Grazeley is a small village and former civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. It lies about four miles south of Reading at grid reference SU698668. It is in the civil parish of Shinfield. To the East lies the Village of Spencers Wood. To the West lie the villages of Grazeley Green and Wokefield. To the South lies the village of Beech Hill.
Grazeley was historically divided between the parishes of Sulhamstead Abbots and Shinfield. The part within Shinfield remained in the civil parish of Shinfield and is now in the Borough of Wokingham. That part includes the village of Grazeley. The part within the ancient parish of Sulhamstead Abbots was a detached part and tything of that parish, and became a separate civil parish in 1866. The civil parish of Grazeley was absorbed by the parish of Wokefield, now part of the unitary authority of West Berkshire. That part is known as Grazeley Green.
Both parts of Grazeley were formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1860.
An all-but defunct pronoun is Grazeleyite, which was used by children to distinguish themselves from children of neighbouring villages, such as the Spencers Wooders.
The name first appears as Grazeley around 1598 and is derived from the Anglo-Saxon Griesley meaning grazing land (meadow). It has also been known by the names of Greyshall, Greasull, Greyshull, Gresley and Graseley. Around the late 19th century, it was also referred to as Lambwood Hill.
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