Dedication:St. Margaret, Mapledurham benefice
  Tower Correspondent:

  Service Ringing: Sun 10.15-11.00
  Practice night: Thu 7.30-9.00pm
  Availability and Restrictions

  The Bells (6) 8-0-0# further details

• Draught: long
• Audibility: 2
  (On a scale of 1 to 5, 1=faint 5=very loud)
• Extra facilities:

  Access to ringing chamber: Ground floor ring under the western tower, one step up from the aisle. Spacious room with patterned carpet but some of the bell ropes are a little too near the wall for easy ringing, especially the one by the sink.

  Points of interest in church See the further details page.
  Church facilities: Toilet is a brick building in the northwest corner of the churchyard; the key is hung on the inside of the door to the ringing chamber.
Kitchen facilities in the ringing chamber.
Children’s corner in the church.
  Travel Details: OS Grid Ref: SU670766
From Reading (Caversham) take the A4074 but soon turn left opposite the pub, just over the top of the hill. Take the next turn left in the woods down to Mapledurham (this is the less narrow and shorter of the two roads down). Car park just before the church on the left but be careful not to leave valuables there as cars have been broken into. Church is down near the Thames with just a few houses nearby, across the river from Tilehurst, about 3 miles NW of Reading.

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  Eating Places:
  Local points of interest for non ringers:

• Mapledurham House, thought to have been the inspiration for 'Toad Hall' in Kenneth Grahame's 'Wind in the Willows', used by TV and film companies for setting of costume dramas such as the dramatisation of John Galsworthy's 'The Forsyte Saga' and Detective series such as 'Midsomer Murders'.
• Mapledurham Mill, the last working mill on the Thames

Page last updated 1 May 2007