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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 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]
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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 ceremonial county of Berkshire (which is entirely made up of unitary authorities – Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham) is divided into nine parliamentary constituencies: three borough constituencies and six county constituencies.
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.
Results map of the 2022 election. 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 ...
Arborfield is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Arborfield and Newland, in the Borough of Wokingham in Berkshire, England.It is about 5 miles (8 km) south-east of Reading, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Wokingham.