Woodlands St Mary

Woodlands St Mary is a small village in the English county of Berkshire. The village is situated in the civil parish of Lambourn, and is to the south of the village of Lambourn, and from Lambourn Woodlands. The parish is within the unitary authority of West Berkshire, close to the border between the counties of Berkshire and Wiltshire.

Geography

Woodlands St Mary is located on the route of Ermin Way, the Roman road which connected Calleva Atrebatum to Glevum. The route of Ermin Way through the village is used by today's B4000 from Newbury to Lambourn. The modern M4 motorway passes just to the south of the village, with the nearest junction 14, about to the east, between Shefford Woodlands and Hungerford Newtown.

Church

St Mary's church was built in 1851 and designed by the architect, Thomas Talbot Bury. It is a Grade II listed building.