Southend, Berkshire

St Peter's Church, Southend Bradfield

Southend or Bradfield Southend is a small rural village in the west of the civil parish of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire. Its postcodes likewise begin RG7 6XX.^[a]^[1] Until the 1965 opening of its church it was a hamlet. In 2011 it had 33.9% of the civil parish's census-recorded population. It had 738 residents. Administratively it is in West Berkshire, below which the civil parish council upkeeps minor recreational and events amenities, as well as being a statutory force and consultee in the town and country planning local plans and as to all applications submitted within its area. The seat has after each Periodic review since its 1885 creation consistently been Newbury.

Church[]

St Peter's Church in Southend, Bradfield is in a shared C of E ecclesiastical parish with Bradfield, which has the medieval church and which is larger. It seats 100. It was opened in 1965.^[2]

Transport[]

Buses 41 to and from Thatcham, a small town with a railway station, stop several times a day in the village.^[3] The nearest railway station is Aldermaston, about 3 miles (4.8 km) by road to the south. Bus 41 offers an interchange with Bus 1 (23 minutes away from Thatcham) into the main retail, employment, services and hospitality town of Newbury.

Notable residents[]

Sisters 'Kate' (later to become Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge) and Pippa Middleton lived here with their family throughout the 1980s.^[4]

Demography[]

Excluding outlying farms and cottages of Bradfield, Southend, often shown on maps as Bradfield Southend comprised two Output Areas of the 2011 census. The number of households who had no car or van was 5.7% divided as follows:^[5]