Englefield Estate

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Englefield House was the home of the Englefield family, supposedly from the time of King Edgar. Sir Thomas Englefield was the Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1559, the house was confiscated from his grandson, Sir Francis Englefield, a servant of the Catholic Queen Mary, for "consorting with [the] enemies" of the new Protestant monarch, Elizabeth I. The family later lived at Whiteknights Park in Earley and continued to be buried in Englefield parish church until 1822.

It has been used as the filming location for the television programme Hex (2004), Easy Virtue (2008) and most prominently used as the Hewett's estate in the 2005 Woody Allen film Match Point, starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer and Brian Cox.