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The rugby field, clubhouse and stand are situated in the northern half of the grid square. This picture was taken looking more or less south east.
©Pam Brophy
Readers of Watership Down, by Richard Adams, will know that the book starts with the potential redevelopment of the area around the warren. This is it; by those trees is the warren that Fiver and friends had to leave to start their journey to Watership Down. It didn't happen of course; this is still managed game shooting territory.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.2km<br/>A footpath runs from Sandleford to Wash Common across this open area, which is managed for game shooting.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.4km<br/>This track leads east from Wash Common to Sandleford. Although substantial, it is only a public right of way as a footpath.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.4km<br/>Taken from just inside the club's gates, on a drive they now share with the Falkland Medical Centre.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.4km<br/>This area of private parkland drops down to a tributary of the River Enborne, before rising in the next square towards Sandleford Priory, a school.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is a track from Sandleford to Wash Common that runs through Sandleford Park. It is only a right of way as a footpath.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.5km<br/>The road has just a few houses, and the catholic church, then leads to a footpath across open fields.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.6km<br/>This is off Andover Road. The sports facilities appear to be shared very effectively with the community.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.6km<br/>It's my opinion that Newbury has more than its share of these.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.7km<br/>237 Andover Road. Now divided into flats.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.7km<br/>The house on the right is called The Haven, built 1899. Behind the one on the left is the tower of St. George the Martyr church.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.7km<br/>The notice board at the east end of the church fronting Andover Road.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.7km<br/>This is a view of the Italianate tower. It was designed by FC Eden FSA FRIBA, an authority on Italian art and architecture, and construction started in 1933, but it was not completed until 1964! The website of this church is here http://www.st-george-newbury.org/history.htm The only other church in Britain designed by the same architect is St John's in Harpenden, which I presume is this one [[[913523]]]
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.7km<br/>This is a view of the church from Andover Road. It is surrounded by trees, thus difficult to get a clear view of the whole building. It was designed by FC Eden FSA FRIBA, an authority on Italian art and architecture, and construction started in 1933, but it was not completed until 1964! The website of this church is here http://www.st-george-newbury.org/history.htm
©Graham Horn

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