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'''Martin's Heron''' is a housing estate on the eastern edge of [[Bracknell]] (a town in [[Berkshire]], [[UK]], just west of [[London]]). The name Martin's Heron is frequently misheard, and its name is a source of much confusion. It has nothing to do with the avian [[Heron]] but stems from the old English word for meadow - Hern.

{{lunar crater|

latitude=36.6° N|

longitude=131.5° W|

diameter=99 km|

depth=''Unknown''|

colong=133|

eponym=[[Carl Charlier]]}}

'''Charlier''' is a [[lunar]] [[crater]] that is located on the [[Far side (Moon)|far side]] of the [[Moon]]. To the south-southeast is the larger [[Kovalevskaya (crater)|Kovalevskaya crater]], and northeast of Charlier is the [[Perrine (crater)|Perrine crater]].

Martins Heron is well known locally as being the site of [[Harry Potter]]'s house. The recent filmed version of [[JK Rowling]]'s famous story was filmed partly on ___location. The external scenes with the actor [[Daniel Radcliffe]] playing Harry Potter at his house were shot on ___location at a house in Picket Post Close, Martin's Heron.

This is an eroded crater formation with a damaged outer rim. The most intact section of the rim is along the northeast quadrant; the rim to the south and west has been eroded and partly by small craters. The western part of the rim is overlaid by a merged cluster of multiple small impacts.

[[Martins Heron railway station]] serves commuters travelling to [[London Waterloo]] and [[Reading, Berkshire]]. The train station is very small but is manned during office hours, and is equipped with CCTV. The train station is situated right next to a [[Tesco]] supermarket, and indeed was built by the supermarket chain, as a precondition of the supermarket being built.

The interior floor has also not escaped the bombardment, and multiple small craters lie across the interior, in some places overlapping previous impacts. There are two patches of the interior floor that are relatively free from notable impacts. One is adjacent to the northern part of the interior floor and the other is in the southwest part of the floor.

Martin's Heron Tesco is also used for filming. It is one of the very few Tesco supermarkets in the country that is not open on Sunday, owing to concerns from local residents. It is therefore used as a filming ___location for all the Tesco television adverts featuring [[Prunella Scales]] and [[Jane Horrocks]] among others.

==Satellite craters==

By convention these features are identified on Lunar maps by placing the

letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Charlier

crater.

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!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Charlier

!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Latitude

!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Longitude

!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Diameter

|-

|align="center"|Z

|align="center"|39.7° N

|align="center"|131.6° W

|align="center"|46 km

|}

[[Category:CratersVillages onin the MoonBerkshire]]