Prospect Place, Berkshire, England

Originally the site of Dirle's Farm, the land was part of the Calcot Park estate. In the 1760s, Benjamin Child turned the farm into a mansion. Child was the widower of the famous "Berkshire Lady", Frances Kendrick, whom he had first met there some years before. He named the park after its views over Reading; it was formerly known as Prospecthill Park.The park was bought by the Reading Corporation in 1901.

The present regency style house, known as The Mansion House (and originally named Prospect House), was built by John Liebenrood in the late 18th century. It is a Grade II listed building, currently used as a restaurant.

The park hit national headlines in May 2005, when 16-year-old Mary Ann Leneghan was stabbed to death in the park and her 18-year-old friend survived being shot. The perpetrators were a gang of six men from London, four of whom were on probation at the time.

Local clothiers made good, the Kendrick family, cloth makers of
Reading in the 16th and 17th centuries, purchased the manor of Whiteley Park to the south of the town, reured from business, became county squires, and by the 18th century owned extensive properties in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire, as well as Prospect Park at Calcot in Tilehurst Parish.