Donnington
Donnington is a village in the civil parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington in West Berkshire, England. It is located north of the town of Newbury. It contains a ruined medieval castle and a Strawberry Hill Gothic mansion.Photo: The Dewdrops, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Berkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Donnington, Berkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Donnington Castle and Shaw House.
Donnington Castle
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Donnington Castle is a ruined medieval castle, situated in the small village of Donnington, just north of the town of Newbury in the English county of Berkshire.
Shaw House
Government office
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shaw House is an important example of an early symmetrical H-plan Elizabethan mansion, located at Shaw, a village on the north-eastern outskirts of Newbury in Berkshire. The house is Grade I listed and the park and gardens are Grade II.
Watermill Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Sheps, Public domain.
The Watermill Theatre is a producing theatre in Bagnor, Berkshire. It opened in 1967 in Bagnor Mill, a converted watermill on the River Lambourn. As a producing house, the theatre has staged works that have subsequently moved on to the West End, including the 2004 revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which also transferred to Broadway in 2006.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shaw and Speenhamland.
Shaw
Village
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shaw is a village in Berkshire, England. It is located to the north of Newbury, near the village of Donnington. It is in the parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington.
Newbury
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newbury is a market town in West Berkshire, England, in the valley of the River Kennet. It is 26 miles south of Oxford, 25 miles north of Winchester, 27 miles southeast of Swindon and 20 miles west of Reading.
Donnington
- Category: locality
- Location: Shaw-cum-Donnington, West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.41844° or 51° 25′ 6″ northLongitude
-1.32875° or 1° 19′ 44″ westElevation
299 feet (91 metres)Open location code
9C3WCM9C+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 13546565950OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Donnington” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دونينغتون”
- Basque: “Donnington (Berkshire)”
- Basque: “Donnington”
- Dutch: “Donnington, Berkshire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دونينجتون”
- French: “Donnington”
- German: “Donnington”
- Irish: “Donnington”
- Italian: “Donnington”
- Kurdish: “Donnington, Berkshire”
- Kurdish: “Donnington”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Donnington”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Donnington”
- Polish: “Donnington”
- Welsh: “Donnington, Berkshire”
- Welsh: “Donnington”
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