Welcome Pack Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise February 2020 www.myjourneywokingham.com Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise 16pp A5.indd 1 13/02/2020 14:02:24 1 Welcome About This Booklet My Journey Wokingham Welcome to your new home in Deer Leap Park/ As well as welcoming new residents to the borough, Orchard Rise. This pack has been produced by the My Journey Wokingham provides a series of travel My Journey team to provide you with information related events and training courses. about planning journeys from your new home. For further information about the My Journey My Journey Wokingham promotes travel which Wokingham programme please visit the My Journey helps keep our residents healthy and safe and our Wokingham website. borough cleaner and greener. Additionally, you can follow us on Facebook or Within this pack you will find reference to local Twitter to find out about our latest offers, events walking and cycle routes, information about local and training programmes. bus and rail services, and where to find your nearest electric car charging points. Website: www.myjourneywokingham.com We are also pleased to be able to provide you with information on discounted travel and travel related Facebook: items, some of which are exclusively for new www.facebook.com/MJWokingham residents of Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise. Twitter: @MJWokingham My Developer Details Feedback We are always looking to improve the information provided in our welcome packs. If you have any comments about the pack or any questions around travel in Wokingham you can contact us. Email: [email protected] 1 Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise 16pp A5.indd 2 13/02/2020 14:02:24 Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise 16pp A5.indd 3 13/02/2020 14:02:24 2 Three Mile Cross to Wokingham, and the route west to Grazeley and By the 1820ʼs the Mortimer. Tradesmen and services for agriculture community of farriers, were attracted to Three Mile Cross. By the 1820ʼs the community of farriers, bakers, cobblers, bakers, cobblers, seamstresses and others formed a bustling village that was brilliantly depicted in the series of articles seamstresses and entitled ʻOur Villageʼ, written over many years by the others formed a resident dramatist and author Mary Russell Mitford. The articles made Three Mile Cross so famous that bustling village American visitors would come here to look at the village and make Mary Mitfordʼs acquaintance. *This History of Three Mile Cross was taken from Our Brief History Villages – Character Statement written by Patricia Green & Graham Simonds. Development of Shinfield, Spencers Wood and Three Schools nearby Mile Cross • Alder Grove Church of England Primary School – In Shinfield Parish, the villages of Shinfield, Spencers due to open September 2020 Wood and Three Mile Cross are being extended and • Shinfield Infants & Nursery School together comprise one of our major development • Shinfield St Mary’s Junior School areas. • Lambs Lane Primary School • Grazeley Parochial Primary School There will be homes, a district centre with • Oakbank Secondary School (11-16 year olds). a supermarket and community centre, a neighbourhood centre, two new primary schools, New Parks in Shinfield new playing fields and open spaces, and new • Langley Mead (formerly known as the Loddon roads which includes the Shinfield Eastern relief SANG) - Hyde End Road, Shinfield, RG2 9EP road. The University of Reading has also built the • Mays Farm Meadows - Hyde End Lane, Ryeish Thames Valley Science and Innovation Park which Green, Shinfield, RG7 1EP is accessed from the Shinfield Eastern Relief Road. • Five Acres Field - next to Clares Green Field, Shinfield, RG7 1EN History of Three Mile Cross • Clares Green Field - Ryeish Lane, Shinfield, RG7 1EN . Basingstoke Road was the historic route south from the Thames Valley at Reading to Odiham, Ryeish Green Sports Hub Farnham, and Portsmouth. The not very fertile The former Ryeish Green Sports Centre has been land was held by large estates and the medieval updated and re-opened as the Ryeish Green Sports open-field system was only enclosed by hedging hub with a new health and fitness gym, changing in the nineteenth century. The estates and farms facilities, a club room and a new car park, along with depended on labourers and servants who lived in a refurbished sports hall. The new and refurbished poor conditions on the common land or in sporadic facilities together with the recently improved sports clusters of dwellings. Ale houses and coaching inns pitches will create a dynamic sports hub in the served the travellers on the main road, and Three western part of Wokingham Borough. Mile Cross developed at the junction with the then chief route east to Shinfield parish church and on 3 Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise 16pp A5.indd 4 13/02/2020 14:02:24 Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise 16pp A5.indd 5 13/02/2020 14:02:28 Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise 16pp A5.indd 6 13/02/2020 14:02:31 Walking 3 Walking is simple, free Places to Walk to and one of the easiest ways to get more active, lose weight and become healthier 4 Post Office/One Stop Mins Cambridge University researchers have found that a brisk walk every day has substantial health benefits. 10 Oakbank Secondary School Mins Incorporating walking into your lifestyle will go a long way in helping your health and well-being. 12 Ryeish Green Sports Hub The My Journey Wokingham website can be used Mins to discover walking routes in your local area or to plan walks to your local shops, services and other amenities. 16 Spencers Wood Village Hall Mins Visit: www.myjourneywokingham.com Thames Basin Heaths Partnership 20 Spencers Wood Library To find greenspaces on your doorstep and get Mins outside for some fresh air and exercise. Visit: www.tbhpartnership.org.uk 20 Mereoak Park & Ride Mins Health Walks There are a number of health walks that take place 30 Shinfield Infant & across the borough. The walks are a great way to Nursery School meet new friends and keep active. Mins Visit: 32 Lambs Lane Primary www.wokingham.gov.uk/sports-and-activities- School for-adults/walking-for-heaIth Mins Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise 6 Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise 16pp A5.indd 7 13/02/2020 14:02:31 4 Cycling Cycling is a low Places to Cycle to impact type of exercise which can help you lose weight, 3 Post Office/One Stop reduce stress and Mins improve your fitness 5 Oakbank Secondary School Mins It is often quicker to cycle than travel by car for local 6 Ryeish Green Sports Hub journeys in Three Mile Cross, particularly during rush Mins hour. Cycling is one of the easiest ways to fit exercise into 6 Spencers Wood Library your daily routine for example you could cycle to Mins work or Reading or Mortimer station a few days a Shinfield Infant & Nursery week. 9 Mins School Visit the My Journey website for the latest copy of the Wokingham Cycle Map, information on local Lambs Lane Primary 10 bike events, training courses for adults and children School as well as discounts at local retailers and much more. Mins Visit: 10 Rotec Cycles www.myjourneywokingham.com Mins Wokingham Bikeathon The Bikeathon is an annual event that takes place 10 Mereoak Park & Ride around Wokingham every June. The date of the Mins event will be shared on the My Journey website once it is announced. 24 Mortimer Station Mins Love to Ride If you ride for more than 10 minutes, log your ride at www.lovetoride.net/wokingham for a chance to win cycle related prizes. Encourage friends and family for even more chances to win. 7 Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise 16pp A5.indd 8 13/02/2020 14:02:32 Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise 16pp A5.indd 9 13/02/2020 14:02:35 Welcome to Deer Leap Park & Orchard Rise 16pp A5.indd 10 13/02/2020 14:02:39 Bus Travel 5 Forget about the Park and Ride to Reading parking costs and A park and ride service operates from Mereoak Park & Ride at Mereoak Lane, Grazeley. The site provides rising fuel prices and nearly 600 parking spaces, plus cycle and motorcycle parking. Reading Buses, Greenwave service provides let someone else do a fast and frequent service between the site and Reading town centre and Reading train station. Park the driving and ride fares include a parking fee of £1.00 per day. Concessionary passes are valid for bus travel in accordance with the scheme conditions, but pass-holders will be asked to pay a £1.00 parking fee. Basingstoke Road Bus Stops Long Distance Coaches From Deer Leap Park and Orchard Rise you can catch the No. 9 Leopard bus to reach Reading train station National Express operate coaches to London via Royal Berkshire Hospital and Whitley Wood. The Victoria Coach Station as well as Heathrow and nearest bus stop is located on the Basingstoke Road Gatwick Airports from Mereoak Park & Ride. Please opposite Three Mile Cross Post Office. note that there is no overnight parking at Mereoak. Average journey times to Reading are around 35 Tickets must be booked in advance at: minutes. www.nationalexpress.com or For fares and for further information on the Leopard 9 Tel No. 08717 818178. see the enclosed leaflet. 145 Bus – Tuesdays only Tiger 7 also serves Reading train station and takes Every Tuesday the 145 bus goes to Sainsbury’s at around 35 minutes.