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Summary

Temporary postwar location of an infant school for the children of employees at AWE Aldermaston

Monument Type(s):

• INFANT SCHOOL (Mid 20th century - 1947 AD? to 1960 AD?)

Full Description

The Berkshire Record Office holds other records for Burnham Copse County Infant School between 1954 and 1959 <1>. Apparently this was provided for employees of the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, within Berkshire. The exact location of the school is not known. A subsequent Burnham Copse infant school was built in Tadley in Hampshire.

The place name 'Burnham's Copse' comes from a wooded area within the Aldermaston Park estate, later used as the Second World War airfield <2>.

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