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In the South-east of the district, close to the Hampshire border, Stratfield Mortimer is a place of contrasts and with many interesting buildings. The old part of the village blends Victorian and earlier houses of substance with some modern housing development, whilst Mortimer Common to the west is almost completely modern.
One of its great treasures is the stone cover of a Saxon tomb with a Latin inscription recording the burial of Aegelward in 1017. Mortimer Common's church, dating from 1882 and 1896, is of red brick with a gabled tower. The reredos is formed by a rather fine painting, in Nazarene tradition, of Christ at Emmaus.
Older houses in the parish include Mortimer House which dates from 1774. Far, far older is the Round Barrow cemetery at Mortimer Common, a group of four early Bronze Age barrows.
All around, however, is modern development with houses spaciously laid out amid the firs and pines and with shopping areas, schools and, near the church, a popular recreation area known as The Fair Ground.
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- Landmark