AMENITIES & FACILITIES

There are two halls within the parish, the Memorial Hall and the Victory Room.

The Memorial Hall is located in Upper Bucklebury and has three rooms which can be hired.

There is carpet bowls, yoga, pilates, adult ballet classes and sitting  exercise organizes on a regular basis and links with  a horticultural society and sewing club.

There is also Bucklebury Farm and Deer Safari park, which has plenty going on for families.

The is also peach’s Stores, L Interiors and post office facilities at All Saints Church.

There is a history Group, Mahjong Group, Toddler Group, Ladies Club and West Berkshire Countryside society.

St Martin’s Club is for the over 60 residents of Bucklebury.

 FOOD & DRINK

 The Bladebone  was so named in 1666 when a Bladebone of a mammoth was sealed within copper and hung above the door.

There is a Blackbird café with homemade treats, savouries, coffees and teas and an Honesty café at Bucklebury farm .

 SPORTS

There is a Bucklebury Tennis Club and Bucklebury Wolves Football Club for children aged 5- 13.

There is also a Badminton Club, Cricket Club, Bucklebury guides and  Bucklebury Walkers.

  SCHOOLS

There is a Bucklebury C of E Primary School in Upper Bucklebury.

Bucklebury is a school that believes in the whole child.

Their approach to education is rooted in the Christian values of love, faith and hope.

They endeavour to know every child, enabling personalised provision that is exceptionally delivered.

  HEALTH

Local GP services are provided at the Chapel Row Surgery.

Chapel Row Surgery
The Avenue
Bucklebury
Berkshire
RG7 6NS

Tel: 0118 971 3252 (Main switchboard)

Email: ChapelRowSurgery@nhs.net

COMMUNICATION

The Oaks is published by Bucklebury Parish Council 3 times a year – February, May and October, and is distributed free to all households in Bucklebury Parish.

The website is Bucklebury Parish Council.

CHURCH

The Church of St Mary the Virgin  was built in the 11^thcentury.

The parishes of Bucklebury with Marlston, Bradfield and Stanford Dingley are a group of rural parishes with six very different church buildings, each with its own congregation and distinct styles of worship, with a collective name of 2bsd and is part of the Oxford Diocese.

TRANSPORT

Here is a community bus for Bucklebury residents.

 PARISH COUNCIL

Bucklebury Parish Council consists of 11 elected representatives representing the different wards within Bucklebury Parish.

Councillors are elected every 4 years.

 ENVIRONMENT

The Parish of Bucklebury, comprising of 2200 hectares, lies wholly within the North Wessex Downs’ “Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty”.

The West Berkshire Countryside Group group combines the aims and objectives of the Pang and Kennet Valleys Countryside Projects, the Bucklebury Heathland Conservation Group and the Pang Valley Conservation Volunteers.

It has been set up to represent all of the people who care about the countryside throughout West Berkshire.

Bucklebury Common was once an area of extensive heathland with large areas of heather and gorse.

It was the home of nightjars, woodlarks and reptiles.

When grazing stopped in the 1920’s the Common became overgrown with silver birch and scots pine and the heather and wildlife declined.

The Bucklebury Heathland Conservation Group was originally set up in 1992 to restore part of the Common to heathland and since then they have cleared and maintained about 60 acres in an area east of Upper Bucklebury and south of the Upper Bucklebury to Chapel Row road.

As a result, the nightjars and woodlarks have come back and they sometimes see an Adder.

The site is owned by the Bucklebury Estate and the conservation work is carried out with their kind permission.

They meet on the second Saturday or Sunday of each month between September and March with occasional extra workdays to continue the battle to keep the area open and to expand it if possible.