Little John’s Farm

Little John’s Farm is situated between the Thames and the tracks of the Great Western Railway in an area that is now a well-known venue for outdoor concerts, most famously the annual Reading Festival.

On O.S. maps of the area published in 1882, 1897 and 1899, the locality is indicated as “Little John’s” tout court. The EPNS volume on this part of Berkshire also lists it under that short form but refers as its source to John Snare’s c. 1846 map of Reading and environs on which the name is cited as “Little Johns Farm”