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Three Mile Cross

Village in Berkshire, England

Field	Value
official_name	Three Mile Cross
country	England
region	South East England
static_image_name	Three Mile Cross - geograph.org.uk - 3944.jpg
static_image_caption	The Wesleyan Chapel, dated 1876, Three Mile Cross
coordinates
post_town	Reading
postcode_area	RG
postcode_district	RG7
postcode_district1
dial_code	0118
constituency_westminster	Wokingham
civil_parish	Shinfield
lieutenancy_england	Berkshire
unitary_england	Wokingham

Three Mile Cross is a village in the Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England, around 3 mi to the south of Reading town centre. Along with the adjoining village of Spencers Wood to the south, it forms a part of the civil parish of Shinfield. The Village also is home to the Mereoak Park & Ride & Mereoak Park.

In the 1960s, the M4 Motorway was built and became an artificial barrier between the village and Reading. In the 1980s, the A33 Swallowfield Bypass severed roads to the Estate of Mereoak park lying in the Reading direction.

History

Three Mile Cross is best known as the home of the famous 19th-century author, Mary Russell Mitford who wrote a five-volume book of literary sketches entitled Our Village, which is a series of stories and essays largely about the setting and people of Three Mile Cross.

Business

The wind turbine at Hartley near Three Mile Cross

The Green Park Business Park lies half in the Hartley/Three Mile Cross area of Shinfield parish and half in the Smallmead area of Whitley in Reading borough. The 2 megawatt (peak) Enercon wind turbine, near Junction 11 of the M4, stands in Shinfield. It has been described as "the UK's most visible turbine". It was constructed in November 2005 and is owned by Ecotricity. The blades are 33 m long, with a tower height of 85 m. At a wind speed of 14 m/s the machine generates 2.05 MW of electricity (less for lower wind speeds) and has the potential to produce 3.5 million units of electricity a year, enough to power 1,063 local homes.

The Courage Berkshire Brewery, built in 1978, was also half within Shinfield. It was demolished in 2011.

References

Ford, David Nash. (2020). "Mid-Berkshire Town and Village Histories". Nash Ford Publishing.
(1923). "A Victoria History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3". Victoria County History.

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