Wash Water
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{short description|Village in Berkshire, England}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|official_name= Wash Water
|static_image_name = Wash Water Road near Enbourne - geograph.org.uk - 56901.jpg
|static_image_caption = The Woodpecker public house near Wash Water
|coordinates = {{coord|51.369152|-1.357884|display=inline,title}}
|map_type= Berkshire
|population =
|population_density =
|metropolitan_borough= West Berkshire
|metropolitan_county= Berkshire
|region= South East England
|constituency_westminster= Berkshire
|post_town= NEWBURY
|postcode_district= RG10
|postcode_area= RG
|dial_code= 01635
|os_grid_reference= SU451635
}}
Wash Water is a hamlet on the border of Berkshire, and Hampshire.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 174 Newbury & Wantage (Hungerford & Didcot)|ISBN= 9780319228739 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2014}} It is divided between the civil parishes of Enborne (where according to Grid Refs the majority of the population at the 2011 Census was included), Newbury, Highclere and East Woodhay. The settlement lies adjacent to the A343 and A34 highways (Newbury Bypass), approximately {{convert|3|mi|km}} south-south-west of Newbury.
Some locals claim it is named after the spot on the River Enborne where women washed the troops' clothes during or after the First Battle of Newbury of the English Civil War, others say it is because wool was washed in the local rivers before fulling in the two nearby mills.
Village facilities include a public house called the Woodpecker Inn,{{cite web|title=Woodpecker Arms|url=http://www.arkells.com/the-woodpecker-inn-newbury.htm|website=www.arkells.com|access-date=10 April 2016|archive-date=17 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417083049/http://arkells.com/the-woodpecker-inn-newbury.htm|url-status=dead}} formerly the Derby Arms.