Streatley, Berkshire - Youth Hostel - real photo postcard c.1960s

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  • Picture / Image:  The Youth Hostel, Streatley, Berkshire - real photo type
  • Publisher:  Youth Hostel Association
  • Postally used:  no - written and address but not posted
  • Stamp:  n/a
  • Postmark(s): n/a
  • Sent to:  Brussels, Belgium
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Streatley is a village and civil parish on the River Thames in Berkshire, England.

Streatley is about 8 miles (13 km) from Reading and 16 miles (26 km) from Oxford. It is in the Goring Gap on the River Thames and is directly across the river from the Oxfordshire village of Goring-on-Thames. The two villages are connected by Goring and Streatley Bridge, with its adjacent lock and weir, and are often considered as a single settlement. Goring & Streatley railway station on the Great Western Main Lineis in Goring and serves both villages.[A][B] The village is mostly surrounded by National Trust land: Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down.

The Ridgeway long distance path passes through the village, which is the finishing line for the annual ""Ridgeway 40"" walk and trail run.[1]

The Thames Path, Icknield Way and the Ridgeway cross the Thames at Streatley.

Being in such a vital crossing point on the Thames, Streatley has been around for a long time and was mentioned in the Domesday book. Its history is even older, and Neolithic tools have been found at the base of Lough Down,and Bronze age artefacts have been found in the village. There is also a remaining Roman milestone still present in the village, at the Bull crossroads.[2] The iron wheel pump on the forecourt of The Bull pub, was the only reliable water source in the great freeze of 1895 and water was sold from this point for six pence a bucket. Photos of the wheel and historic images of the local area can be found ont the pub's website [link removed by ] Sixty people were drowned at Streatley in 1674 when a ferry capsized in the flash lock.[3]

The whole of Streatley used to be owned by the Morrell family of brewers from Oxford, whose resistance to change enabled the village to withstand the trainline and extra houses that went to Goring. However, the mill burned down in 1926, and wasn't rebuilt, and on the death of Emily Morrell in 1938 the estate was sold, and the manor house as well as other houses in the village became part of the Royal Veterinary College, which had moved out of London during the Blitz. They left in 1958.[4]

The village is mentioned in the poem ""A Streatley Sonata"" by J. Ashby-Sterry[5] from the late 19th century

A bomb exploded in a postman's bag on a bicycle in the village in 1979.[6] It was apparently the work of the IRA.