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In a Local Government sense Caversham has become a part of the Royal County of Berkshire, but Masonically has remained the most southerly centre in the Province of Oxfordshire, although the Mark and Royal Ark Mariner Degrees operate under the jurisdiction of the Province of Berkshire. Lodge meetings were regularly held at one of two venues ...
Apr 3, 2024 · Pictured are lead scrolls found at a Roman villa complex in Oxfordshire, England. These finds are among the "huge" number of artifacts uncovered at the site, according to archaeologists.
Rimmer was an artist and architectural historian - he published many books examining historic buildings, illustrating them himself. He published 'Pleasant Spots Around Oxford' in 1878, for which this is a prepatory sketch. The published engravings were done by Percy Roberts after Rimmer's sketches. Steventon is a village in Oxfordshire, although it was formerly in Berkshire. The Causeway is a ...
The Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Rising of 1549 was a rural rebellion that took place in Tudor England under the rule of Edward VI 's Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. Part of a series of disturbances across the country, it took place at the same time as the better-known Prayer Book Rebellion or Western Rising and for ...
- Summary
- Introduction
- Records from 1826 to The 1920s
- Records For The Region West of Newbury
- Records For The Berkshire Downs and Goring Gap
- Records For Goring and The South Chilterns Area
- Records For The Area Between Newbury and Reading
- Records For The Region East of Reading
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
A detailed account of all the records of the Cirl Bunting in Berkshire and adjacent parts of south Oxfordshire is presented. The species occurred in Berkshire between 1826/7 and 1981; it was a very local, resident bird that was sometimes proved breeding until 1971. There is no evidence it bred in east Berkshire, except during the 19th century in th...
Extinct in Berkshire since 1981, the enigmatic Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlusnever became common or widespread in the county at any time after its arrival in the 19th century. It was first recorded in Britain in south Devon in 1800, having spread northwards from France. It gained ground as a resident species right across the south of England during t...
The first documented record of the Cirl Bunting in Berkshire is of a pair with two eggs discovered at East Garston near Lambourn in 1826 or 1827. What scant literature there is intimates that the species remained a very local resident throughout the 19th century, although it was no doubt overlooked - and perhaps much so. By the time of Clarke Kenne...
Only a handful of records came from the patchwork of hilly country, woods, parkland, farmland and river valleys to the west of Newbury. Nesting was observed near Speen in 1884, where in the following year two were shot in December. This hints that this could have been a regular site, and nearly 80 years later, one was seen in the same area at Bagno...
Western Berkshire Downs The status of the Cirl Bunting around Lambourn and its adjoining downland is something of a mystery. The history-making record of nesting in the 19th century was to be followed, unexpectedly, with only a single further observation being made in the Berkshire part of that district: a pair at Upper Lambourn in July 1963. Nowhe...
Since the Cirl Bunting was partial to the southern slopes of chalk hills, it might be supposed that more than one instance of breeding would be documented for the southernmost reaches of the Chiltern Hills - that south corner of Oxfordshire between Goring and Henley on Thames, bounded by the River Thames. Indeed, it might be expected that several i...
While parts of the area between Newbury and Reading, such as the reed beds, gravel pits and woods, are unsuitable for the Cirl Bunting, a large proportion consists of cultivated land with hedgerows and trees, in the vicinity of sloping ground, and appears to provide what the species requires. Certainly breeding occurred at four localities, with fur...
There is no evidence that the Cirl Bunting bred in east Berkshire, except in two areas adjoining the River Thames: Maidenhead-Cookham and Henley. Elsewhere in east Berkshire there were no records at all between April and September. This is the reverse of the pattern for the later Goring records and strongly suggests it was absent as a breeding spec...
A few authors have attempted to assess (or guess!) the breeding status of the Cirl Bunting in Berkshire. It will be recalled that Noble (1906) regarded it to be "resident but very local." Holloway (1996) classed its breeding status between 1875 1900 as "uncommon" in Berkshire (the pre 1974 boundary, of course, including all of the Berkshire Downs),...
The Reading Ornithological Club report for 1950 comments that an observer "reports that at least six pairs bred within a radius of three miles" of Streatley, whereas the 1950 county report notes on...A later claim by a reliable observer has not been published.Reported as 1950 in The Birds of Berkshirebook.I asked the Reading based observer where the locality was but he could not remember.Column 1 is the full list of names we are searching – about 1550 – with the core variants. There are many other variant spellings in our records but they not listed here for reasons of space. Column 2 contains “Yes” to indicate the top 400 or so names we are researching as a priority. Column 3 contains “Yes” to indicate those ...
Oxfordshire ksfdr -r OKS-fahd-shr -sheer abbreviated Oxon is a ceremonial county in South East England. The county is bordered by Northamptonshire and
