Sandhurst, Berkshire

Description
Sandhurst, a village and a parish in Berks. The village stands on the river Blackwater, 1 1/2 mile NW of Wellington College station on the Reading and Reigate branch of the S.E.R., and 4 1/2 miles S by E of Wokingham, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wokingham. The parish comprises 4536 acres ; population of the civil parish, 4148 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1894. Sandhurst Lodge is the property of the Walter family, who are lords of the manor and chief landowners. Amburrow and Longdoun House are chief residences. There are two large barrows in the parish and the remains of a Roman camp. Extensive improvements have been made and numerous houses erected in recent years. The Royal Military College stands in beautiful park-like grounds about 2 miles from the church, was temporarily founded at High Wycombe in 1799, removed to Great Marlow in 1802, and brought hither in 1812, is a plain edifice of centre and two wings with a handsome Doric portico, includes a riding-school, an observatory, a well-furnished library, and a chapel, and contains accommodation for masters, officers, and 300 gentlemen cadets. Wellington College and Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, which are in this parish, are noticed under CROWTHORNE. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £47. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church was restored in 1864, and is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, N porch, and a western tower with spire. It has a brass of 1608 and a finely carved font. A mission church was built at Little Sandhurst in 1889, and there are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.