About the Parish

The Parish was created in 2000 and comprises four distinctive, but mutually supportive communities within Berkshire: St Mary’s serving Wargrave & Crazies Hill, St Peter’s serving Knowl Hill and St Paul’s serving Warren Row.

WARGRAVE is a very active riverside village of c4,000 residents supporting more than thirty clubs and societies in their vibrant community. The local publication ‘Wargrave News’ can provide you with a flavour of what goes on.

Situated just upstream of Henley-on-Thames, and a short drive from the Berkshire county town of Reading, many residents work along the Thames corridor. Others who work further afield, take advantage of the excellent road links (M4 & M40) and National Rail networks (Wargrave is on the Henley to Twyford short line with links to Reading/Paddington & the Elizabeth line from Twyford) towards London, Heathrow and the rest of the country.

This is what Revd Steve Turville has to say about Wargrave:

“It’s definitely ‘a village’: perfect size, perfect makeup of people with lots of ability and energy. It’s the people, really, who pull together to ‘give’ to the village. That’s Wargrave”.

KNOWL HILL is a separate small village three miles from Wargrave, with its own identity and a regular congregation at its church - St Peter’s. It dates from Victorian times, and its original Parish was created partly out of Wargrave and partly out of the Hurley Parishes.

WARREN ROW is a hamlet and part of the civil parish of Hurley. Set on the boundaries of three estates - Hall Place, Rosehill and Park Place, it is situated approximately 3.5 miles southeast of Henley-on-Thames. St Paul's is the smallest of the three churches in the Parish and is a "Tin Tabernacle" bought in kit form for just over £100 in 1894. For many years its services were taken by a Church Army Captain and supported financially by a local family.