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Spencers Wood history
The earliest confirmed reference to the name ‘Spencers Wood’ dates from 1500, when a man named John Blunt left 3s 4d for the repair of a road through the wood called Spencers Wood. The name of the wood may derive from the le Despencer family — a Norman family – who held half a knight’s fee in Swallowfield in the 13th century. Before that the area was probably part of the Royal Forest (Windsor Great Park)
After the common was enclosed
Victorian and Edwardian style houses were built along the Basingstoke Road using bricks baked at the local Swain family kiln. The Square became the heart of the village during this building period, and many of these houses still stand. By 1880, Spencers Wood had become a thriving village with a population of 600, of whom 200 were children.
World War Two
Few German bombs fell in the area, which was just as well as the village has no air-raid shelters. Rationing also had little effect on the village as the majority of villagers were too poor to notice a reduction in goods. After the war, many soldiers, evacuees and prisoners of war decided to settle in the village.
Recent history
The first street lighting in the village was installed after the war. In the 1960s, the M4 Motorway was built and became a man-made barrier between the village and Reading. The A33 Swallowfield Bypass severed roads to the village of Grazeley lying to the East.
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