Gallowstree Common

{{Short description|Village near Reading, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}

{{infobox UK place

|official_name= Gallowstree Common

|static_image= Gallowstree Common pub.jpg

|static_image_width= 230px

|static_image_caption= The Reformation Public House

|coordinates = {{coord|51.516|-1.006|display=inline,title}}

|population=

|population_ref=

|civil_parish= Kidmore End

|shire_district= South Oxfordshire

|shire_county= Oxfordshire

|region= South East England

|country= England

|constituency_westminster= Henley

|post_town= Reading

|postcode_district= RG4

|postcode_area= RG

|dial_code= 0118

|os_grid_reference= SU6980

|website= [http://www.kepc.info/index.php Kidmore End Parish Council]

}}

Gallowstree Common is a hamlet in South Oxfordshire, England,{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Hannah |date=24 March 2022 |title=Abandoned Berkshire cottage auctioned off for well over its guide price as 25 people compete to bid |url=https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/abandoned-berkshire-cottage-auctioned-well-23490174 |access-date=26 February 2024 |website=BerkshireLive}}{{Cite web |last=French |first=Andrew |date=17 October 2020 |title=Brave soldier’s conviction for landlady’s murder 'unsafe' |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18802326.brave-soldiers-conviction-landladys-murder-unsafe/ |access-date=26 February 2024 |website=Oxford Mail}} about {{convert|4.5|mi|km}} north of Reading, Berkshire.

The village had a public house, the Reformation, which was controlled by the Brakspear brewery. In 2023, the brewery sold the pub garden for housing and the pub is to be turned into a veterinary surgery.{{Cite web |date=12 January 2024 |title=Village pub being turned into veterinary surgery |url=https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/council/186387/village-pub-being-turned-into-veterinary-surgery.html |access-date=26 February 2024 |website=Henley Standard}} Antony Worrall Thompson was chef at an earlier public house in the village, the Greyhound, which closed in 2009.{{Cite web |last=Serck |first=Linda |date=26 January 2009 |title=Last orders for AWT pub |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2009/01/26/awt_pub_closure_feature.shtml |access-date=26 February 2024 |publisher=BBC Berkshire}} In 2011, a Diamond Jubilee Pavilion was constructed at a recreation ground in the hamlet at a cost of £590,000; it hosts Kidmore End Cricket Club.{{Cite web |date=15 September 2023 |title=Pavilion not viable after costs soar, says council |url=https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/home/183586/pavilion-not-viable-after-costs-soar-says-council.html |access-date=26 February 2024 |website=Henley Standard}}

The village has two woods: New Copse{{Cite web |date=10 September 2018 |title=Ash trees that profited from Great Storm are under threat of disease |url=https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/community-news--all-districts-/130076/ash-trees-that-profited-from-great-storm-are-under-threat-of-disease.html |access-date=26 February 2024 |website=Henley Standard}} and Withy Copse.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}