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Birch Hill
South Hill Park Arts Centre
Birch HillLocation within Berkshire
OS grid reference	SU869664
Metropolitan borough	Bracknell Forest
Metropolitan county	Berkshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRACKNELL
Postcode district	RG12
Dialling code	01344
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Royal Berkshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Bracknell
List of places UK England Berkshire 51°23′26″N 0°45′05″W / 51.390518°N 0.751527°W / 51.390518; -0.751527

Birch Hill is a southern suburb of Bracknell, originally part of the now-defunct civil parish of Easthampstead, in the English county of Berkshire. Although Birch Hill is a separate ward in Bracknell Town Council it is combined with Hanworth to form Hanworth ward in Bracknell Forest Council. The Birch Hill estate was built in the 1970s on the slightly higher ground above South Hill Park, a Georgian and Victorian country house in parkland with two lakes (known locally as North Lake and South Lake), now an arts centre. Birch Hill is bounded by Hanworth to the west, Crown Wood and Forest Park to the north-east, Easthampstead to the north and Nine Mile Ride and the Crown plantations of Swinley Forest to the south.

Facilities include Birch Hill Primary School, a large Sainsbury's supermarket near the A322, a shopping centre that also serves Hanworth, a library, community centre and the Silver Birch public house. Coral Reef Water Park and the Look Out Discovery Centre are nearby. The streets in Birch Hill are named in alphabetic order. For example, the southernmost area includes from east to west Naseby, Northcott, Nutley, Oakengates, Octavia, Orion, Qualitas and Quintilis.

References

1. Reading and Windsor (Landranger Maps) (C2 ed.), Ordnance Survey, 2006, ISBN 978-0-319-22920-0
2. "Birch Hill Ward Map". Bracknell Town Council. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
3. "Ward Map for Hanworth" (PDF). Bracknell Forest Council. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
4. Philip's Street Atlas Berkshire, Philip's, 2009, ISBN 978-0-540-09294-9

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