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The word "common" often conjures up images of wide-open spaces where people and animals roam freely and which provide safe habitats for wildlife.
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Whilst this is certainly true of much of Greenham and Crookham Commons today, the visitor to the area will notice a wide variety of buildings. Most are tucked away in the wooded edges of the plateau, where steep gullies run north and south to the valleys of the Kennet and Enborne rivers, or at the northern edge of the parish, where it borders the network of waterways of the river Kennet.
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Houses, both grand and humble, farms, cottages, churches, chapels, and even mills and factories have all been built on and around the Commons. The best known are perhaps the huge structures associated with Greenham Common airbase – they merit a section to themselves and you can find out about them in Clouds of War.
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Greenham Lodge, entrance front |
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In this Section, we look at some of the other structures which make up Greenham's built environment, and the people who created them.
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Stone Age to the Romans
"A Built Environment"
