Spencers Wood is a village in the Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Reading.

The village of Three Mile Cross adjoins it to the north, and both form part of the civil parish of Shinfield.

(In the 13th century, Spencers Wood was administered by William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury and his court in Amesbury.

In 1905 it was replaced by a new larger church (nearer the road), which, due to falling attendances, closed in 1999 and was subsequently converted into apartments.

On the west side of Basingstoke Road, north of Beech Hill Road, two gentlemen established country estates: the local philanthropist Frederick Allfrey, who built Stanbury (where Wellington Court now is) and William Merry, who was a County magistrate and a visiting magistrate to Reading Gaol, as well as Secretary at War Lord Palmerston's private secretary from 1812 to 1828.

The east side of Basingstoke Road was divided among many owners, who progressively sold off the land for development.

Victorian and Edwardian style houses were built along the Basingstoke Road using bricks baked at the local Swain family kiln.

[8] In spite of its growth, Spencers Wood was still split between the ecclesiastical parishes of Shinfield, Swallowfield and Grazeley.

Food was grown and caught locally as part of the dig for victory programme and the black-market was able to supply all excess demand.

In the 1980s, the A33 Swallowfield Bypass severed roads to the village of Grazeley lying to the East.