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The Watermill Theatre is a repertory theatre in Bagnor, Berkshire. It opened in 1967 in Bagnor Mill, a converted watermill on the River Lambourn. As a producing house, the theatre has produced works that have subsequently moved on to the West End, including the 2004 revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Bagnor is a village close to the town of Newbury in the English county of Berkshire and situated on the banks of the River Lambourn. At the 2011 census the population was included in the civil parish of Speen. It is best known as the home of the Watermill Theatre.

Donnington Grove is a Strawberry Hill Gothic mansion, now a hotel and country club, and associated Golf Course at Donnington in the civil parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington, near Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire. It is overlooked by Donnington Castle.

Speen railway station served the village of Speen, Berkshire, England, on the Lambourn Valley Railway.The station had one platform with, in its later years, two small buildings, one being of the GWR's pagoda style.

Honey Bottom (also written as Honeybottom) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington in the English county of Berkshire. The settlement lies approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north-west of the town of Newbury, between the villages of Bagnor and Winterbourne. It covers the very north-eastern portion of the Donnington half of the parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington, on the southern edge of Snelsmore Common.

Woodspeen is a village in Berkshire, England, and part of the civil parish of Speen. The settlement lies near to the A34 road (Newbury Bypass), and is located approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north-west of Newbury.

Donnington Castle is a ruined medieval castle, situated in the small village of Donnington, just north of the town of Newbury in the English county of Berkshire. It was founded by Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder in 1386 and was bought by Thomas Chaucer before the castle was taken under royal control during the Tudor period. During the First English Civil War the castle was held by the royalist Sir John Boys and withstood an 18-month siege; after the garrison eventually surrendered, Parliament voted to demolish Donnington Castle in 1646. Only the gatehouse survives. The site is a scheduled monument under the care of English Heritage.

Speen is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. Centred 2 miles (3 km) north west of the largest town in the district, Newbury, Speen has clustered settlements, the largest of which is Speen village, which is contiguous with Newbury, and the others, buffered from the town by the A34 road, are Bagnor, Stockcross, Woodspeen and Marsh Benham. Its other land is an approximately even mixture of woodland and agricultural fields including hay meadows for livestock feed and pasture. The area varies greatly in elevation, having the Reading to Taunton Line alongside the north bank of the River Kennet as its southern boundary and both banks of the River Lambourn in its north with elevated ground in between. Benham Park in the south-west of the area is a listed landscape garden and house.

Stockcross and Bagnor Halt railway station was a railway station near Newbury, Berkshire, England on the Lambourn Valley Railway. It served the villages of Stockcross and Bagnor.

The Vineyard is a hotel, restaurant and spa located near Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom, rated 5-star prior to 2014. It has won a number of awards and was in 2015 the primary restaurant of Chef Daniel Galmiche . It has 49 rooms and suites, dining room, spa and conference/event facilities. It is a part of the Relais & Châteaux group and a member of Pride of Britain Hotels.

The Second Battle of Newbury was a battle of the First English Civil War fought on 27 October 1644, in Speen, adjoining Newbury in Berkshire. The battle was fought close to the site of the First Battle of Newbury, which took place in late September the previous year. The combined armies of Parliament inflicted a tactical defeat on the Royalists, but failed to gain any strategic advantage.

Benham Park is a mansion (on the site of Benham Valence Manor) in the English ceremonial county of Berkshire and district of West Berkshire. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Newbury within 500m of a junction of the A34 trunk road Newbury by-pass outside the town side, in the Marsh Benham locality of Speen, a village within and outside the Newbury by-pass. The house is a Grade II* listed building and park is Grade II.