This is a list of places that are mentioned in documents or have photographs in the Reading Museum Service archive collection.

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1 Local archival material- Place-name list This is a list of places that are mentioned in documents or have photographs in the Reading Museum Service archive collection. Most of the collection relates to Reading and the surrounding villages including those that are now part of. Table 1 lists United Kingdom places and Table 2 overseas locations. Aldermaston Court Aldermaston Church Aldermaston The Hind's Head Aldermaston Aldermaston Church Aldworth Aldworth Aldworth Church Basildon Basildon Beech Hill Bisham Abbey Bisham Bisham Blewbury Bracknell Greek Theatre Bradfield Bray Mill Bray Bray Church Brimpton Buckland Bucklebury Burghfield Mill Burghfield Burghfield Childrey Childrey Chippenham St Mary's Church Cholsey Clewer Cookham Caesar's Camp Crowthorne Church Rd Earley Earley East Ilsley Emsworth Eton Lechlade Road Faringdon Stanford Road Faringdon Faringdon St James church Finchampstead Finchampstead Page 1 of 17

2 Goring-on-Thames Great Coxwell Greenham Hambledon Bridge Street Hungerford High Street Hungerford Hungerford Hurley Bill Hill Cottage Hurst St Nicholas Hurst St Nicholas Church Hurst St Nicholas Kingston Lisle Lambourne Woods Lambourne Lambourne Letcombe Lockinge Long Wittenham Maidenhead Marlow Mortimer Common Northbrook Street, 42 Newbury Northbrook Street, 84 Newbury Newbury Newbury North Heath Padworth Common Padworth St John the Baptist church Padworth Padworth Shooters Hill Pangbourne St James church Pangbourne Pangbourne Rupert Street Reading Abbey Gateway Reading Abbey Mill Reading Abbey Ruins Reading Abbey Square Reading Abbey Street Reading Abbots Walk Reading Addington Road Reading Addison Road Reading Addison Road, 104 Reading Amity Road, 123 Reading Arcade,6 and 7 Reading Avenue, The Reading Baker Street, 55 Reading Barcham and Beecroft shop Reading Basingstoke Road Reading Bath Place Reading Bath Road Reading Page 2 of 17

3 Battle Hospital Reading Beresford Road Reading Berkeley Avenue, 37 Reading Blagden Road Reading Blagrave Street Reading Blagrave Street, 10a Reading Blagrave Street, Reading Blagrave Street, 27 Reading Blagrave Street, 29 Reading Blake's Lock Reading Briants Avenue, 20 Reading Bridge Street Reading Bridge Street, 19 Reading Bridge Street, 39 Reading Broad Street Reading Broad Street Mall Reading Broad Street, 115 Reading Broad Street, 116 Reading Broad Street, 117 Reading Broad Street, 125 Reading Broad Street, Reading Broad Street, 35 Reading Broad Street, 40 Reading Broad Street, 46 Reading Broad Street, Reading Broad Street, 60 Reading Broad Street, 67 Reading Broad Street, 87 Reading Bryant's Avenue, 29 Reading Bulmershe Road Reading Butter Market Reading Calcot Reading Calcot Row Reading Carey Street Reading Castle Hill Reading Castle Hill (corner) Reading Castle Street Reading Castle Street (corner) Reading Castle Street, 145 Reading Castle Street, 33a Reading Castle Street, 52 Reading Castle Street, 55/57 Reading Caversham Bridge Reading Caversham Heights Reading Caversham Hotel Reading Caversham Road Reading Caversham Road, 71/75a Reading Caxton Street Reading Page 3 of 17

4 Cemetery Junction Reading Chain Street Reading Chatham Street Reading Chatham Street, Reading Chatham Street, Reading Cheapside Reading Cheapside, 1 Reading Cheapside, 1 and 3 Reading Cheapside, 163 Reading Christ Church Reading Christchurch Road Reading Christchurch Road, 55 Reading Christchurch Road, 68 Reading Church Street Reading Civic Centre Reading Clappers weir Reading Coley Reading Coley Avenue Reading Coley Park Reading Coley Park Flats Reading Coley Street Reading Commercial Road Reading County Court Offices Reading Crescent Avenue Reading Cressingham Road Reading Cross Street Reading Cross Street, 10 Reading Cross Street, 11 Reading Cross Street, 30 Reading Cross Street, 4 Reading Crown Street Reading Crownland's Farm Reading Curzon St, 85 Reading Curzon Street, 19 Reading De Beauvoir Road, 6 Reading Downing Street, 10 Reading Duke Street Reading Duke Street, 14 Reading Duke Street, 16 Reading Earley Reading Earley Power Station Reading Eastern Avenue Reading Eldon Place, 2 Reading Eldon Square Reading Electricity Showroom Reading Elgar Road Reading Elgar Road, 73 Reading Elgar Road, 78 Reading Page 4 of 17

5 Elm Park Reading Elm Park football stadium Reading Elm Park Road Reading Emmer Green Reading Erleigh Road Reading Essex Street, 21 Reading Fobney Street Reading Forbury Gardens Reading Forbury Road Reading Forbury, 20 Reading Forbury, 22 Reading Forbury, 4 Reading Forbury, The Reading Ford and Miller's Reading Foundry Brook Road (from) Reading Franklin Street, 40 Reading Friar Street Reading Friar Street, Reading Friar Street, 118 Reading Friar Street, 153 Reading Friar Street, 155 Reading Friar Street, 16 Reading Friar Street, Reading Friar Street, 161 Reading Friar Street, 173 (from) Reading Friar Street, 175 Reading Friar Street, 22 Reading Friar Street, 23 Reading Friar Street, 40 Reading Friar Street, 409 Reading Friar Street, 53 Reading Gasworks Road Reading Goldsmid Road Reading Granby Terrace, 2 Reading Great Knollys Street Reading Great Western Hotel Reading Greyfriars Road Reading Grovelands Reading Grovelands Road Reading Grovelands Road, 92 Reading Grubb street, 4 Reading Gun Street Reading Gun Street, 12 Reading GWR railway Station Reading Gypsy Lane Reading Hamilton Road, Glenmore Reading High Bridge Reading High Street Reading Page 5 of 17

6 Highgrove Street, 45 Reading Hills Meadow Reading Hills Meadows Reading Holybrook Crescent, 46 Reading Holybrook Press Reading Horne Street Reading Hosier Street Reading Hospitium Reading Hounslow's Reading Huntley and Palmers factory Reading Inner Gateway Reading Jesse Terrace Reading Katesgrove Lane Reading Kendrick Road Reading Kendrick Road,47 Reading Kendrick Schools Reading Kennet and Avon Canal Reading Kennetmouth Reading Kensington Road, 55 Reading King's Meadow Reading King's Road Reading King's Road, 101 and 103 Reading King's Road, 112/114 Reading King's Road, 149 Reading King's Road, 17 Reading King's Road, 198 Reading King's Road, 21 Reading King's Road, 38 and 40 Reading King's Road, 45 and 47 Reading King's Road, 48 Reading King's Road, 78a Reading King's Road, 79 Reading King's Street Reading Kinson Road Reading Leighton Park Reading Liebenrood Road Reading Liverpool Road Reading Road Reading Road, 109 Reading Road, 13 Reading Street Reading Street, Reading Street, 126/128 Reading Street, 13 Reading Street, 33 Reading Street, Reading Street, 34 Reading Street, 43 Reading Page 6 of 17

7 Street, 54 Reading Street, 54 and 56 Reading Street, 57 Reading Street, 58 Reading Street, 67 Reading Street, 72 Reading Street, Reading Street, Reading Street, 80 Reading Street, Reading Street, 90 Reading Street, 91 Reading Madjeski Stadium Reading Manor Farm tip Reading Mapledurham Reading Market Arcade, 6,7-8 Reading Market Place Reading Market Place, 17 Reading Market Place, 22 Reading Market Place, 3,4 and 5 Reading Market Place, 3,4, and 5 Reading Market Place, 46 Reading Market Place, 47 Reading Masonic Hall Reading Middle Row, 29 Reading Middle Row, 5 Reading Mill Lane Reading Mill Lane, 19 Reading Mill Lane, 27 Reading Millman Road Reading Minster Street Reading Minster Street (corner) Reading Minster Street (from) Reading Minster Street, 15 Reading Minster Street, 16 Reading Minster Street, 39 Reading Minster Street, 42 Reading Newtown Reading Norcot Road Reading Old Grammar School Reading Oxford Road Reading Oxford Road, 121 Reading Oxford Road, 139/141 Reading Oxford Road, 17 Reading Oxford Road, 245 Reading Oxford Road, 266 Reading Oxford Road, 429 Reading Oxford Road, 482 Reading Page 7 of 17

8 Oxford Road, 482 Reading Oxford Road, 707 Reading Oxford Road, 740 Reading Oxford Road, 820 Reading Oxford Road, 98 Reading Oxford Street Reading Oxford Street, 15 Reading Oxford Street, 17 Reading Oxford Street, 71 Reading Oxford Street, 81 Reading Oxford Street, 98 Reading Palmer Park Reading Palmer Park Avenue Reading Palmer Park Avenue, 10 Reading Pangbourne Reading Park Lane Reading Peg's Green Lane Reading Pell Street Reading Portman Road, Reading Prospect Park Reading Queen Victoria Street Reading Queen Victoria Street, 22 Reading Queen Victoria Street, 30 Reading Queen's Road Reading Queen's Road, 3 Reading Queen's Road, Reading Queen's Road, 72 Reading Queen's Walk Reading Randolph Road Reading Reading Abbey Reading Reading Abbey Ruins Reading Reading Bridge Reading Reading Corporation Baths Reading Reading Gaol Reading Reading Gasworks Reading Reading Museum and Art Gallery Reading Reading Road, 129 Reading Reading School Reading Reading Station Reading Reading Technical college Reading Reading Town Hall Reading Reading War Hospitals Reading Recreation Ground Reading Red Lane Reading Richfield Avenue Reading River Thames Reading Rivermead Reading Rodway Road Reading Page 8 of 17

9 Royal Hospital Reading Salem Chapel Reading Seven Bridges Reading Shenstone Road, 6 Reading Shinfield Road Reading Shinfield Road, 82 Reading Shire Hall Reading Silver Street Reading Simond's Bank Reading Simonds Brewery Reading Sonning Lock Reading South Street Reading Southampton Street Reading Southcote Reading Southcote County Primary School Reading Southcote Lane Reading Southcote Road Reading St Bartholomew s Rd, 22 Reading St Bartholomew's Street, 17 Reading St Giles Church Reading St Giles Mill Reading St James church Reading St Laurence's churchyard and Eastgate Reading St Mary's Butts Reading St Mary's Butts, 56 Reading St Mary's Butts, 67 Reading St Mary's Butts, 9 Reading St Mary's Church Reading St Mary's Church House Reading St Mary's Vicarage Reading Stadium Way Reading Station Hill Reading Station Road Reading Station Square Reading Stephen's and Blandy Bank Reading Stockton Road, 14 Reading Sutton's Seeds Reading Tessa Road, 8 Reading The Cedars Reading The Clappers Reading The Great Western Hotel Reading The Grove, 13a Reading The Oracle Reading The Promenade Reading The Royal Seed Establishment Reading Thongleys Road Reading Tidmarsh Street, 31 Reading Tilehurst Reading Page 9 of 17

10 Tilehurst Road Reading Town Hall Reading Union Street Reading Union Street, 1 Reading Union Street, 3-5 Reading University of Reading Reading Vachell's almshouses Reading Valpy Street Reading Valpy Street, Reading Valpy Street, Reading Vastern Road Reading Wantage Hall Reading Wantage Road Reading Waterloo Kiln Reading Watlington House Reading Watlington Street Reading Watlington Street, 67 Reading Waylen Street, 22a Reading West Street Reading West Street, Reading West Street, 46 Reading Western Elms Avenue Reading Western Elms Avenue, 13 Reading Whiteknights Reading Whitley Reading Whitley Street, 112 Reading Whitley Wood Lane, 104 Reading Winser Drive Reading Wokingham Road Reading Wokingham Road, 10 Reading Wokingham Road, 63 Reading Wokingham Road, 91 Reading Wolseley Street Reading Woodley Reading Woodley Airport Reading Wykeham Road, 103 Reading Wykeham Road, 130 Reading Yield Hall Reading Yield Hall Lane Reading 29 Briants Avenue Reading <Caversham> Ardler Road Reading <Caversham> Bridge Street Reading <Caversham> Caversham Bridge Reading <Caversham> Caversham Court Reading <Caversham> Chester Street Reading <Caversham> Chester Street, 25 Reading <Caversham> Chiltern Road, 72 Reading <Caversham> Church Road Reading <Caversham> Page 10 of 17

11 Church Street Reading <Caversham> Donkin Hill, 49 Reading <Caversham> Gosbrook Road Reading <Caversham> Gosbrook Road, 8 Reading <Caversham> Hemdean Road Reading <Caversham> Henley Road, 199 Reading <Caversham> Oxford street 57 Reading <Caversham> Prospect Street Reading <Caversham> South View Avenue Reading <Caversham> St John's Road Reading <Caversham> St Johns Road, 27 Reading <Caversham> St Peter's church Reading <Caversham> Star Road Reading <Caversham> Toots Barn Reading <Caversham> Warren, The Reading <Caversham> Reading <Caversham> Reading <Coley> Reading <Emmer Green> Reading <Southcote> Reading <Whitley> Ruscombe Lane Ruscombe Ruscombe Shinfield Melbourne Avenue, 41 Slough Slough Sonning Eye Sonning St Andrew church Sonning Sonning Sparsholt Speen Spencer's Wood Church Stanford Dingley Steventon Church Stratfield Mortimer Stratfield Mortimer St Mary s church Streatley Streatley Nunhide Farm Sulham Sulhamstead Abbots church Sulhamstead Sunninghill Sutton Courtney Church Swallowfield Swallowfield Theale Three Mile Cross St Laurence church Tidmarsh Church Road Tilehurst Church Road, 36 Tilehurst Page 11 of 17

12 Grovelands Tilehurst Grovelands, 92 Tilehurst Oxford Road Tilehurst School Road Tilehurst Tilehurst Road, Fairview House Tilehurst Tilehurst station Tilehurst Tilehurst Church Street Twyford High Street Twyford Road Twyford Ruscombe Road Twyford Square, The Twyford Station Road Twyford Church Street Twyford High Street Twyford Twyford Uffington Ufton Ufton Court Ufton Nervet Cholsey Wallingford Church Waltham St Lawrence Waltham St Lawrence Guy's Cliff Warfield Wargrave Wasing Prince Consort Chapel Windsor Windsor Castle Windsor Windsor Windsor, Old Winterbourne Broad Street Wokingham Denmark Street Wokingham Lucas Hospital Wokingham Market Place, 27 Wokingham Murdock Road Wokingham Rose Street Wokingham Station Road Wokingham Wokingham Woodley Bulmershe Manor Woodley and Sandford Angel Inn Woolhampton Woolhampton Woolstone Aylesbury Buckinghamshire Eton Buckinghamshire Carnarvon Castle Carnarvon Carnarvonshire Looe Cornwall Page 12 of 17 Cornwall

13 Sunderland County Durham Sunderland County Durham Carlisle Cumberland Askham Church Askham Cumbria Torquay Devon Page 13 of 17 Dorchester Devon Dorset Dorset Braintree Essex East Ham Essex Anney Crucis Gloucestershire Cheltenham Gloucestershire Raglan Castle Raglan Gwent Basingstoke Hampshire Bournemouth Hampshire Rectory Eversley Hampshire Hyde Hampshire Silchester Hampshire Southampton Hampshire Kent Road Southsea Hampshire Church St Mary Bourne Hampshire Wellington Monument Stratfield Saye Hampshire Stratfield Saye Hampshire Church Tadley Hampshire Hyde Abbey Winchester Hampshire Winchester Hampshire Hampshire West Grove, Dean Lane, Winchester Hamsphire Hereford Herefordshire Carthagena Estate Broxbourne Hertfordshire Farringford Freshwater Isle of Wight Sandown Isle of Wight Benenden Kent Dover Kent Maidstone Kent Marden Kent Newhaven Kent Liverpool Leicester Charing Cross Kent Lancashire Leicestershire 28 Brydges Street Covent Garden Cranbourne Red Lion Passage Fleet Street Kemsley House Gray's Inn Road Pearson's Weekly Building Henrietta Street, WC

14 Furnival Street, 16 Holbern Holbern Wellington Street, 24 Strand Tottenham Wandsworth Wembley Westminster Bouverie Street 32 Paternoster Row 40 Fleet Street 52 Cannon Street 53 Bedford Square, Abchurch Lane, 23 Albemarle Street Aldersgate Street Drury Lane, Fleet Street Fleet Street, 69 Hanover Square, 2 Hendon Hall Hotel High Holborn, 182 Hungerford Bridge Kingsway Old Street Paul Street, 87 and 89 Ruskin House Museum Street, 40 Sardinia Street, Savoy Hotel Threadneedle Street, 35 Upper St Martin's Lane, 12 Walworth Road Page 14 of 17 Blackfriars Street Salford Manchester Teddington Middlesex Norwich Norfolk Stert Street Abingdon Abingdon Appleton Ardington

15 Avington Blewbury Blewbury Blewbury Bourne End Childrey Queens Road, 3 Cholsey Cholsey Drayton Drayton Reredos East Hendred White Hart Fyfield Fyfield Goring Stanton Road, 123 Headington Henley-on-Thames Kingston Bagpuize Kingston Lisle Long Wittenham Mapledurham Mill Mapledurham Mapledurham Highmoor Cross Nettlebed Nettlebed windmill Nettlebed Nettlebed North Hinkley Nuneham Courtney 20 Beaumont St. Oxford Oxford Church Peppard Peppard Common Peppard Peppard Sanatorium Peppard Peppard Pusey Church Rotherfield Greys Greys Court Rotherfield Greys Shiplake Sonning Stoke Row Sutton Courtney White Horse Hill Uffington Uffington Wallingford St Peter and St Paul church Wantage Wantage West Hagbourne West Lockinge Church Woolstone Wyfold Court Page 15 of 17

16 Balmoral Scotland George Square, 56 Edinburgh Scotland Scotland Stokesay Castle Stokesay Shropshire Farleigh Castle Farleigh Somerset Glastonbury Abbey Glastonbury Somerset Taunton Somerset Wells Somerset Somerset Camberley Surrey Godalming Surrey Town Hall Godalming Surrey Abbots Hospital Guildford Surrey High Street Guildford Surrey Holy Trinity Church Guildford Surrey St Mary s Church Guildford Surrey Guildford Surrey Morden Surrey Thorp Surrey Brighton Sussex Coolham Sussex Sussex Wales (North) Shakespeare's House Stratford on Avon Warwickshire Lacock Abbey Lacock Wiltshire East Stowell Farmhouse Marlborough Wiltshire Bewdley Worcestershire Leeds Yorkshire Bradford Yorkshire Driffield Yorkshire Yorkshire Table 2: Overseas Street/building Town/village County Burma Abbeville France St Trophimus Arles France Aubervilliers France Avingnon France Bayeux France Paris France St Maurice church Vienne France Page 16 of 17

17 Table 2: Overseas Street/building Sennelager Sabutha Abbey Street, 87 Cork 2 Minami Saegicho Berks County Reading Town/village Bavaria Berlin Dusseldorf Westphalia Punjab Dublin Tokyo Sebastapol Capetown Johannesburg Madrid The Hague Pennsylvania Pennsylvania County France Germany Germany Germany Germany Germany India India Ireland Ireland Italy Japan Kenya Russia Singapore South Africa South Africa South Africa Spain Sudan The Netherlands USA USA Page 17 of 17