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The municipal borough of Wokingham was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, with the area merging with the surrounding Wokingham Rural District to become a new non-metropolitan district called Wokingham. District-level functions formerly performed by the borough council passed to the new Wokingham District Council. [18]
The district was formed on 1 April 1974 as Wokingham District, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Wokingham and Wokingham Rural District. It is governed by Wokingham Borough Council (formerly Wokingham District Council), which has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1998, following the abolition of ...
The borough council, which met in the town hall, was reformed under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883. [4] The building contained the local police station until it relocated to Rectory Road in 1905, [ 5 ] at which time the former police superintendent's office on the ground floor was converted into a mayor's parlour. [ 1 ]
To compensate Reading East (renamed Reading Central), three Reading Borough wards were transferred from Reading West. In turn, Reading West gained parts of Newbury and Wokingham, including the village of Burghfield, and was renamed Reading West and Mid Berkshire. Further changes included: Finchampstead from Bracknell to Wokingham;
Wokingham Borough Council is the local authority of the Borough of Wokingham in Berkshire, England. Since 1998 the council has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. The council has been under no overall control since 2022. Following the 2024 election a minority Liberal Democrat ...
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Wokingham Borough Council is the local authority for the Borough of Wokingham, a unitary authority in Berkshire, England. Until 1 April 1998 it was a non-metropolitan district . Council elections
Originally, Wokingham was part of a larger constituency of Berkshire, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs), increased to three in the Reform Act of 1832.In the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885 Berkshire was divided into three county constituencies, Northern (Abingdon), Southern (Newbury), and Eastern (Wokingham), and two borough constituencies, Reading and New Windsor, each ...