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Kingsclere

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Kingsclere

Town in Hampshire, England, 13 km/8 mi southeast of Newbury; population (2001) 4,900. It is situated on a small tributary of the River Enborne. Racehorses are trained in the neighbourhood.

The name of Kingsclere indicates that there was a royal residence here in Anglo-Saxon times. Burghclere, 6 km/4 mi west of the town, is the site of the Sandham Memorial Chapel, erected in the 1920s to honour the dead of World War I, and containing murals by the artist Stanley Spencer.



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