Playhatch
View of the road through Playhatch
Playhatch Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SU7476
Civil parish	Eye & Dunsden
District	South Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Reading
Postcode district	RG4
Dialling code	0118
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Henley
Website	Eye & Dunsden Parish Council
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°28′58″N 0°55′59″W / 51.4828°N 0.9331°W / 51.4828; -0.9331

Playhatch (or Play Hatch) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in South Oxfordshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Reading, Berkshire.

Overview

Before 1866, Playhatch formed part of the Oxfordshire section of Sonning civil parish.^{[citation needed]} Berry Brook starts close to the Redgrave-Pinsent Rowing Lake to the southwest, running northeast through the River Thames floodplain past Playhatch, under the B478 Playhatch Road near the Sonning Works, before joining the river at Hallsmead Ait.

Amenities

Just south of the hamlet is the Redgrave-Pinsent Rowing Lake. The hamlet has three public houses:

• The Crown, a 16th-century coaching inn^[1]
• The Flowing Spring, controlled by Fuller's Brewery^[2]
• The Shoulder of Mutton^[3]