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Beautiful beech woods and fungi

Moor Copse is a delightful ancient woodland, wetland and meadow located near Reading, and within the North Wessex Downs Area of Natural Beauty. The reserve features a diverse range of flora and fauna, and is especially renowned for its beautiful woodland flowers, birds, butterflies and moths.

Stanford Dingley is a wonderful village located in West Berkshire surrounded by excellent walks, popular pubs, a babbling brook and a rich farming community.

A footpath leads you along the twinkling River Pang, a small chalk stream that runs through the west of the English county of Berkshire. This section of the river is frequented by ducks, with the occasional kingfisher and heron sighted too.

There is an info board there, containing interesting facts about the place

At the moment due to increased footfall you’ll need wellies instead of walking boot s

St Mary’s is of considerable historic interest as the only executed work in England by George Jonas Wigley, a significant figure in nineteenth century Catholic life and ecclesiology. While the building is architecturally unremarkable, the west front is an impressive, if quirky design. The interior is altered, but contains furnishings by Pugin and glass by Hardman and Wailes. [...] The present church was built [in 1932] also through the efforts of Canon Dambrine, parish priest from 1829 until his death in 1855. He lies buried in the chapel to the north of the chancel, where there is a memorial tablet to him. The site was given in 1846 by Arthur, Earl of Fingal, and the architect for the new church was George Jonas Wigley, a pupil of J. J. Scoles. It was opened by Bishop (later Cardinal) Wiseman on 11 May 1848. The design of the church is said to have been modelled on the Archbishop’s palace and chapel at Croydon, which Wigley considered to be the last church to be built in Catholic England. Wigley is perhaps now little-known, but he is a figure of considerable interest, and some significance in the Catholic scene of the mid-nineteenth century. Cit. https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/woolhampton-st-mary/

Douai Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey at Upper Woolhampton, near Thatcham, in the English county of Berkshire, situated within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth. Monks from the monastery of St. Edmund's, in Douai, France, came to Woolhampton in 1903 when the community left France as a result of anti-clerical legislation. The abbey church is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England. [...] The abbey church was opened in 1933 but only completed in 1993 due to financial constraints. The monastery was greatly expanded in the 1960s with the building of the new monastery designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd. The abbey had in its charge Douai School until the latter's closure in 1999. In 2005, two monks returned to Douai, France to form a community there and restore the historic links to English monasticism. Cit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douai_Abbey