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Ufton Nervet is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire.The Ufton Nervet rail crash happened nearby on the 6th November 2004. Seven people were killed when a First Great Western train, from Paddington to Plymouth, was derailed after colliding with a stationary car on an unmanned level crossing.
1 Location
Ufton Nervet village is situated in the hills above and to the south of the River Kennet, although the parish stretches down into the valley to the north as far as the A4 road. Two narrow lanes connect the village to the A4, crossing the Kennet and Avon Canal and the Great WesternThe term Great Western , when used by itself can refer to: The Great Western Railway (whose Great Western Main Line is now operated by, amongst others, First Great Western) The SS Great Western the first purpose-built trans-Atlantic steamship, 1838 The Gr railway line in the valley bottom. Both lanes cross the canal by swing bridgeA swing bridge is a bridge that has its primary structural support at or near to its centre, about which it can then pivot horizontally. In its closed position, a swing bridge carrying a road over a river or canal, for example, allows road traffic to cross, the smaller of the lanes crosses the railway by the level crossing involved in the rail crash whilst the other uses an overbridge. Other lanes connect the village with other villages on the higher ground above the valley.
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Nearby towns and cities: ReadingReading is a town and unitary authority in Berkshire in England. The town, which has 63,000 households, is at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, halfway between London and Oxford. The name Reading is pronounced to rhyme with bedding (in, NewburyFor other places called Newbury, see Newbury. Newbury is the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in the United Kingdom. It is situated on the River Kennet and the Kennet and Avon Canal, and has a town centre containing many seventeenth c
Nearby villages: Sulhamstead , ThealeTheale is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. The village has many of the attributes of a small town, with a distinctly urban High Street lined with shops, pubs and restaurants. The name Theale is pronounced to rhyme with, Burghfield Common , Mortimer , Padworth , AldermastonAldermaston is a village in the English county of Berkshire, two miles north of Tadley. During the 1950s and 1960s the name Aldermaston became synonymous with the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston (AWRE) but in fact that establishment is
2 Local Government
Ufton Nervet is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It falls within the the area of the unitary authorityA unitary authority is a term used in a two-tier local government system to describe a unit of local government that operates as a single tier. New Zealand In New Zealand a unitary authority is a territorial authority (district or city) which also perform of West BerkshireWest Berkshire is an local government district in Berkshire, South East England, governed by a unitary authority (West Bershire Council). Its administrative capital is Newbury and it is approximately coterminous with the parliamentary constituency of Newb. Both the parish council and the unitary authority are responsible for different aspects of local government.
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