Letters from the Vicar
December 2023
Dear Friends, Charles Dickens cited in “A Christmas Carol”, “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year long.” Peter Marshall once cited: “May we not 'spend' Christmas or 'observe' Christmas, but rather 'keep' it.” Isn’t it so tempting to be...
November 2023
Dear Friends November has always been a time of festivals and celebrations marking the end of the harvest and the beginning of Winter. In this Parish of Wokingham St Sebastian’s, it is also a time where through baptism we become members of one another in Christ and...
October 2023
Dear Friends Welcome to the month of October in Wokingham Without and beyond its borders. October is a month for our semi-rural senses, according to The Campaign for Rural England. In our forests and nature parks, near and far, trees begin to turn colour, leaves...
August and September 2023
Dear Friends Welcome to the summer months of August and September in the Parish of Wokingham Without. Of August, John Todhunter (1839-1916) said: “Summer declines and roses have grown rare, but cottage crofts are gay with hollyhocks. And in old garden walks you...
July 2023
Dear Friends Welcome to the month of July in the Parish of Wokingham Without. July is named after Julius Caesar, a Roman general, statesman and historian. Julius Caesar is not mentioned in the Bible, nor did he live during the times recorded in the Bible, having...
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Location
Crowthorne is located in the Royal County of Berkshire close to the Hampshire and Surrey Borders.
The village of Crowthorne is split between the Unitary Authorities of Bracknell Forest Borough Council and Wokingham Borough Council and even those who live in the Wokingham Borough will tell you that they actually live in Crowthorne. There are few retail facilities within the Parish a small parade of shops in the east...