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The Council of the Royal County of Berkshire, also known as the Berkshire County Council, was the top-tier local government administrative body for Berkshire from 1889 to 1998. The local authority had responsibilities for education, social services, public transport, planning, emergency services and waste disposal, and had 87 members.
The Royal Berkshire Archives is the record office for the county of Berkshire in the United Kingdom. It is located in Reading. [1] It opened as the Berkshire Record Office on 10 August 1948 in The Forbury, Reading. [2][3] It moved to the new Shire Hall beside the M4 in 1981, and to its present home in Coley Avenue, Reading, in 2000. [4]
The Royal County of Berkshire, commonly known as simply Berkshire (/ ˈbɑːrkʃɪər, - ʃər / ⓘ [3] BARK-sheer, -shər; abbreviated Berks.), is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Oxfordshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the north-east, Greater London to the east, Surrey to the south-east, Hampshire to the ...
United Kingdom. Coordinates. 51°24′57″N 0°57′16″W / . 51.4157°N 0.9545°W. / 51.4157; -0.9545. Completed. 1981. The Shire Hall is a former municipal building at Shinfield Park just south of Reading, Berkshire. It was the headquarters of Berkshire County Council from 1981 to 1998.
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The Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH) is an NHS hospital in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. It provides acute hospital services to the residents of the western and central portions of Berkshire, and is managed by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital provides approximately 813 inpatient beds (627 acute, 66 ...
A civil parish is a country subdivision, forming the lowest unit of local government in England. There are 104 civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, most of the county being parished; Reading is completely unparished; Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire and Wokingham are entirely parished. At the 2001 census, there were 483,882 ...
The county is known as the Royal County of Berkshire. This title was granted by Queen Elizabeth II to Berkshire County Council in 1957, via Sir Austin Strutt, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, who wrote to E.R. Davies, clerk to the county council, conveying the Queen's permission for the use of the term. [1]