trading business centres is the most common source of employment as at the 2011 census, with for instance Reading and Newbury about 20–30 minutes away whether by rail or by access to the M4 motorway. Tadley the nearest town, also provides a major source of retail, leisure and general high street service employment. History Grim's Ditch which runs from the mid-south of the area (into the southern forest of Ufton Nervet) is posited to be a 'sub-Roman' bank and ditch dug to defend Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) when the Anglo-Saxons began to settle in the area. The place is recorded in such documents as the Assize Rolls and national Feet of Fines (on property sale) as Peadanwurthe (10th century); Peteorde (11th century); Pedewurth (12th century); Padewrd, Padworze (13th century); Padesworth, Pappeworth (14th century). Manors A full descent of the manor including its earliest known grant of 956, and during the Black Death is provided by the fully referenced text of the Victoria County History for this parish, compiled here in 1923. A secondary manor of Padworth (Hussey's) existed under John de la Husse in the 13th century, after whom it was named. In the Domesday Book, 2½ hides were farmed; which was held by William de Ow and a man named 'Gozelin'. In this instance, its Saxon era owner was recorded as 'Ælfstan', with its nominal dues going to King Edward the Confessor. The period of titled bearers owning either manor was when the main manor was held by the Tichborne baronets and the Forster baronets (1629–1681). The manor house is a Grade II* listed building. It was built afresh in 1769 by the designs of John Hobcraft, and has plasterwork by Joseph Rose. Its entrance is a double-height space, and has a staircase with a wrought iron balustrade to three sides. It has a vaulted 3-bay arched arcades on each floor to one side with Doric columns on the ground floor and columns with Adamesque capitals on the floor above. Other land Place names that were here in the 17th century are: Ball's Pidle, Yew Pidle, Pondes Close, Little and Great Burfeildes, Culmers Wood and Bartholomew's, Brickworth Coppice. The inclosure of the common land at Padworth was by its Private Act of Parliament of 1811 under the established limited compensatory procedures of the time. Church The Church of England parish church of St John the Baptist, is aisleless and built