About Englefield
Englefield is a village in Berkshire, mostly within the bounds of the private walled Estate of Englefield House. The village is situated in the district of West Berkshire, close to Reading.
In the late 19th century Richard Fellowes Benyon restored Englefield House and then rebuilt the villagers' houses as a model estate village and provided them with such amenities as a bathing pool for boys, a soup kitchen, a new school and he also modernised St Marks Church.
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Englefield was named after the battle there, between the Saxons & Danes in AD 871. It is thought to mean Englishmens (Battle) Field or Field of angels becoming Englefield in time. The family who lived there were thought to have taken the name of the village.
The Englefields were Sheriffs and Knights of the Shire throughout the Middle Ages and prominent figures at court in the sixteenth century, until the Estate was confiscated from Sir Francis Englefield in 1559. Sir Francis, a Catholic, fell foul to the rising protestant religion and fled abroad and in refusing to accept Elizabeth I as Queen and negotiating with the Catholic Philip of Spain, he lost all his lands to the crown after a long battle and a special act of parliament.
Elizabeth then granted the manor of Englefield to her Spy Master General, Sir Francis Walsingham, which in turn was inherited by his daughter Frances Walsingham. She married the Queen's favourite The Earl of Essex, who was known to have made many changes at Englefield House.
Englefield then passed through several hands over the next few years, until in 1603 it was the home of the 5th Marquis of Winchester after he returned from exile from the Civil War. He had held his home at Basing in Hampshire, against a three year siege by Cromwells troops, until Basing House was eventually destroyed. He was thought to have purchased Englefield for his third wife Honora de Burgh, the granddaughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, and once Basing was lost he retired to Englefield, and the Estate has been in the same family ever since.