Hungerford is a historic market community and also civil parish in Berkshire, England, 8 miles (13 kilometres) west of Newbury, 9 miles (14 km) east of Marlborough, 27 miles (43 km) northeast of Salisbury as well as 60 miles (97 km) west of London. The Kennet and Avon Canal travels through the community from the west along with the River Dun, a major tributary of the River Kennet. The assemblage with the Kennet is to the north of the centre whence canal and also river both proceed eastern. Amenities consist of schools, stores, cafés, dining establishments, as well as facilities for the primary national sporting activities. The railway station is a small quit on the London to Exeter (by means of Taunton) Line. The church was split right into four tithings: Hungerford or Town, Sanden Fee, Eddington with Hidden as well as Newtown and Charnham Street. North and South Standen as well as Charnham Street were formally separated parts of Wiltshire till transferred to Berkshire in 1895. Leverton and also Calcot were transferred to Hungerford parish from Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire in 1895.