Beedon

The village has outlying farmhouses, surrounded by farmland and hedgerows, and is otherwise clustered around the old A34 Oxford Road, now unclassified, which runs through the village, parallel to the modern A34, with the latter acting as a bypass. The other village street, Stanmore Road, heads north west from Oxford Road, and has the parish church and village school.

Beedon Common is a hamlet and former common in Beedon.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 174 Newbury & Wantage (Hungerford & Didcot)|ISBN= 9780319228739 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html|title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer|format=csv (download)|date= 1 January 2016|publisher=Ordnance Survey|website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk|access-date=30 January 2016}} The settlement lies close to the A34 road, and is located approximately {{convert|6|mi|km}} north of Newbury.

Beedon is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a property of Abingdon Abbey, with Walter de Rivers as the tenant. It passed by inheritance to the de Lisle and later the Roos family. After the manor reverted to the Crown, it was awarded to the Reade family in 1615. In 1857 Sir John Chandos Reade sold the manor to Lewis Loyd, whose son Samuel became Baron Overstone. The manor was then inherited by Overstone's daughter, Harriet Loyd-Lindsay, Baroness Wantage.

Ashridge Wood, just to the north-east of the village, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.{{cite web|url=http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271002795%27 |title=Magic Map Application |publisher=Magic.defra.gov.uk |access-date=2017-03-19}}

Beedon is served by Newbury and District bus services 6 and 6A from Newbury.{{Cite web |url=http://www.newburyanddistrict.co.uk/pdf/jan13/connect-service-6-and-6A-%28effective-from-18-Feb-2013%29.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819070346/http://newburyanddistrict.co.uk/pdf/jan13/connect-service-6-and-6A-(effective-from-18-Feb-2013).pdf |archive-date=2013-08-19 |url-status=dead }}

Beedon manor house was built in 1553{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} but mostly dates from the early in the 18th century.{{Cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |title=The Buildings of England: Berkshire|year=1966 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |page=85}}

The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas is a Grade I listed building{{NHLE|grade=I|desc=Church of Saint Nicholas|num= 1136040 |date=24 November 1966}} built in about 1220.{{cite book |editor1-last=Page |editor1-first=William |editor2-last=Ditchfield |editor2-first=P.H. |editor2-link=Peter Ditchfield |title=Victoria County History: A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol4/pp40-43|year=1924 |pages=40–43}}

Beedon Hill House, on the old A34, dates back to the 18th century. It is a Grade II listed building.{{NHLE|grade=II>|desc=Beedon Hill House|num= 1117206 |date=28 February 1986}}

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