History Month Fact 12: Chamberhouse
The estate of Chamberhouse seems to have been so called from its owner, Roger de la Chambre, who was living there in the year 1250. Additional evidence of the identity of the locality may be found in the fact that the road leading from it to Thatcham, being one of the boundaries of the estate, is called Chamber Lane in a document dated as 1384. It was not until about the middle of the fifteenth century that a royal grant was made to the then owner of the estate of the rights and privileges attaching to a manor. Before that date it formed part of the manor of Crookham.
