Emmbrook House

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Near the Woosehill Roundabout there is a turning into Rotherfield Avenue, which runs parallel to the Reading Road. Once this was the site of Emmbrook House, described in 1771 as a ‘mansion’ and one of only five houses in Wokingham specifically named on a map of 1790. It became part of the Bearwood estate when John Walter III purchased it in 1836 and was substantially altered thereafter. In 1911 it was sold and in 1936 acquired for use as a residence and stables by the Francis family whose son was the Queen Mother’s jockey and, later, crime writer Dick Francis. It was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Brookside circle of houses.

The pictures show maps of the area from 1790, 1883 and the 1970s.

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Source: The Wokingham Society

The Wokingham Walk

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Rotherfield Avenue (15), RG41 2EX, England, United Kingdom

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