Hamstead Marshall is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. The village is located within the North Wessex Downs. The population of this civil parish at the 2011 census was 275.
St Mary's Church
Field in Hamstead Marshall
Front View of St. Mary's Church Hamstead Marshall
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, also called William the Marshal, was an Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman. He served five English kings: Henry II and his son and de jure co-ruler Young King Henry, Richard I, John, and finally John's son Henry III.
Possible tomb effigy of William Marshal in Temple Church, London
The Château de Tancarville in Normandy, where William Marshal began his training as a knight
Modern Memorial in Cartmel Priory, Cumbria
A 13th-century depiction of the Second Battle of Lincoln, which occurred at Lincoln Castle on 20 May 1217; the illustration shows the death of Thomas du Perche, the Comte de la Perche