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Wasing is an agricultural and woodland village and parish in West Berkshire, England owned almost wholly by the Dugdale Baronets. In minor local administration such as footpaths and field sports facilities its few people convene their own civil parish occasionally but share many facilities with Brimpton which was its civil parish at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011.

Wasing Place, Wasing Park, and the Wasing Estate, including woodland, are largely owned and managed by Joshua Dugdale, who inherited them from his father, Sir William Dugdale, 2nd Baronet, in 2014. Its manor is centred on a manor house which was purchased in 1759 by the London nautical publisher John Mount. He built the mansion Wasing Place, completed in 1770, which became the home of his descendants the MPs, William Mount, William George Mount and Sir William Mount. The house was rebuilt after a fire in 1945.

The tall, white Georgian manor house has a 180° panorama. Its park to the north and it are listed, in the initial category, Grade II and the adjacent church, remaining almost a private chapel due to its isolation, is at Grade I, the highest category. Accordingly, these buildings host weddings, business functions, private dining and events. Groups are permitted to shoot partridge and pheasant or go fishing in private woodside ponds on a paid basis. Paths off the public rights of way are available for walking and riding subject to the purchase of annual permits.

For four consecutive years, the Wasing Estate played host to the Glade Festival, an electronic dance music festival which originally started out as a stage at Glastonbury Festival. The annual festival takes place over three days in the summer and attracted around 13,000 people in 2005.



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