Playhatch

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Playhatch (or Play Hatch) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in South Oxfordshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Reading, Berkshire.

Overview

Before 1866, Playhatch formed part of the Oxfordshire section of Sonning civil parish.^{[citation needed]} Berry Brook starts close to the Redgrave-Pinsent Rowing Lake to the southwest, running northeast through the River Thames floodplain past Playhatch, under the B478 Playhatch Road near the Sonning Works, before joining the river at Hallsmead Ait.

Amenities

Just south of the hamlet is the Redgrave-Pinsent Rowing Lake. The hamlet has three public houses:

• The Crown, a 16th-century coaching inn^[1]
• The Flowing Spring, controlled by Fuller's Brewery^[2]
• The Shoulder of Mutton^[3]

See also

• List of places in Oxfordshire

References

External links

• Media related to Playhatch at Wikimedia Commons