Chapel Street

Walking along Chapel Street on the A4 we passed the old 1905 Police Station. This is now closed and looks to be for sale so new homes can be built. There's a Geo-Cache here too.

We say old but the place next door is much older. The Thatcham Methodist Church, a place where for Christian worship. We took some pictures of the Church below, the Gate is as old as the building built in 1834. It was in one piece until a member of the beAt youth club broke it in 2010. You can see the repair to this day :-)



Methodist Church

Methodist Church Gate

Opposite the Methodist Church still on Chapel Street is the Thatcham Parish Hall, built in 1907. This place houses events in the community and can rented by the hour from the Council.

Thatcham Community Church worship here on a Sunday.

Thatcham Parish Hall

Thatcham Parish Hall Stone

Further along Chapel Street opposite the Broadway there is a Milestone, marked on the OS map as 'MS' the one here shows 3 miles to Newbury and 53 miles to London. The water pump is one of five along the this stretch of road. This one is thought to be the Parish pump. They were put along by the road Beau Nash in 1754 to keep the dust down from passing traffic. It doesn't work! The pump looks newer than 1754 too, I wonder if it's original... No