Stratfield Mortimer is a village

Village

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 and civil parish, just south of Reading

Reading, Berkshire

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, in the English

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 county of Berkshire

Berkshire

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Strictly speaking, the village of Stratfield Mortimer sits at the foot of Mortimer Hill which rises westward from the Foudry Brook

Foudry Brook

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. The much larger, and better known, village of Mortimer Common

Mortimer Common

Mortimer Common, generally referred to as Mortimer, is a village in the civil parish of Stratfield Mortimer in Berkshire. Mortimer is in the local government district of West Berkshire and is seven miles south-west of Reading.-Geography:...

, commonly called Mortimer, is at the top of the hill. Mortimer is bounded by Wokefield

Wokefield

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 to the North and Beech Hill

Beech Hill

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 to the East.

The village includes the Cinnamon Tree Indian restaurant (formerly the Fox and Horn and prior to that, the Railway Inn public house

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), St Mary's Church of England parish church

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, Mortimer St Mary's Junior School and the headquarters of the Berkshire Federation of Women's Institutes. The Foudry Brook is crossed at the bottom of the village at Tun Bridge, with Mortimer railway station

Mortimer railway station

Mortimer railway station is a railway station in the village of Stratfield Mortimer in the county of Berkshire in England. The station is notable for its well-preserved Brunel-designed Great Western Railway station buildings, which are still in use...

 lying just beyond.

The larger village of Mortimer Common

Mortimer Common

Mortimer Common, generally referred to as Mortimer, is a village in the civil parish of Stratfield Mortimer in Berkshire. Mortimer is in the local government district of West Berkshire and is seven miles south-west of Reading.-Geography:...

 has a surgery, a bank, a post office, the Church of England parish church of St John the Evangelist. Next to the church is St John's Infant School. There are also three public houses: The Turner's Arms, the Victoria Arms and the Horse and Groom. The three main roads in Mortimer are The Street, West End Road and Victoria Road. A new cricket pavilion is being constructed on the common.

The Lockram Brook

Lockram Brook

Lockram Brook is a small stream in southern England. It rises near the Berkshire village of Mortimer within various areas of woodland and farmland, including Wokefield Common, Starvale Woods and Lukin's Wood. It travels North East towards Wokefield, passing under Lockrams Lane near Wokefield Farm...

 flows through the middle of the parish and there is much woodland in the area, including Starvale Woods, Wokefield Common and Holden Firs.

As Stratfield Mortimer used to be a cross-county parish, the Hampshire

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 part was known as Mortimer West End

Mortimer West End

Mortimer West End is a village and civil parish in north Hampshire in England.At one time it was the Hampshire part of the cross-county parish of Stratfield Mortimer . It became an independent ecclesiastical parish in 1870 - the church of St Saviour having been built in 1854 - and a civil parish in...

. It is now a civil parish in its own right.