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The borough was left unreformed when most ancient boroughs were converted into municipal boroughs in 1836. [13] The borough corporation continued to exist, but as Wokingham was not a municipal borough, local government functions were gradually given instead to the board of guardians of the Wokingham poor law union.
Wokingham, or the Borough of Wokingham, is a local government district with borough status in Berkshire, England. Since 1998 its council has been a unitary authority, having taken on county-level functions when Berkshire County Council was abolished. The borough is named after its main town, Wokingham.
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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 ...
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;
The parish of St Nicholas Hurst is about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Wokingham and 2 miles (3 km) south of Twyford in the county of Berkshire. It covers about 2.5 square miles (6.5 km 2) and is the largest civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham. The village is on the A321 Twyford – Wokingham road.
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 ]
Earley (/ ˈ ɜːr l i / ⓘ UR-lee) is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England.Along with the neighbouring town of Woodley, the Office for National Statistics places Earley within the Reading/Wokingham Urban Area; for the purposes of local government it falls within the Borough of Wokingham, outside the area of Reading Borough Council.