Shurlock Row
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| Shurlock Row shown within Berkshire | |
| OS grid reference | SU833744 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | READING |
| Postcode district | RG10 |
| Dialling code | 0118 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Royal Berkshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | |
Shurlock Row is a village in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England.
It is located in the heart of the Thames Valley, around 5.5 miles (9 km) south-west of Maidenhead and around 3 miles (5 km) east of Twyford, and within the civil parish of Waltham St Lawrence (where the 2011 Census population was included).
The parish has been inhabited since Roman times. The Camlet Way, linking Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) to Colchester (Camalodunum) ran close to the north of the village. Archeological evidence of a vast octagonal Roman Temple dedicated to the goddess Vesta on Weycock Hill suggests the presence of substantial settlement.
In medieval times the village lay to the south of a large lake that separated the parish from Ruscombe, and this survives in local names such as South Lake House and nearby Stanlake Park. Following the Norman Conquest in the 11th Century, the area was named 'sud-lac rue', which later became known as Shurlock Row.
Billingbear Park, just south of the village, was the centre of Binfield Walke or Fines Bayliwick, the greatest of the sixteen red-deer stocked sub-divisions into which Windsor Forest was split. It was granted to Sir Henry Neville by Edward VI in 1549. He was the younger brother of the 5th Lord Bervagenny and a descendant of the Nevilles of Bisham & elsewhere. His fine monument (1593) can be seen in the parish church. Sir Henry’s son and namesake was Ambassador to France, but was implicated in the Earl of Essex’ plot against Elizabeth I and imprisoned in the Tower. During the Civil War, the area was deeply divided: Colonel Richard Neville of Billingbear House fighting on the opposite side to his Parliamentarian brother, Henry. After Charles II was restored to the throne, the house was the scene of a great dinner party. The King, the Duke of York, Prince Rupert and many other nobles rode over from Windsor in 1667. The fine Elizabethan House burnt down earlier this century.
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