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A successor parish called Wokingham covering the area of the former borough was created in 1974, with its council taking the name Wokingham Town Council. [19] Wokingham District Council became a unitary authority in 1998 when it took over county-level functions from the abolished Berkshire County Council. [20]
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 Reading Built-up Area or Reading/Wokingham Urban Area is a name given by the Office for National Statistics to a conurbation in Berkshire, England, with a population of 318,014. [1] This was a significant decrease from the population according to the 2001 census of 369,804 [ 2 ] due to Bracknell no longer being considered part of the built ...
A map of Berkshire, showing the districts: (1) West Berkshire; (2) Reading; (3) Wokingham; (4) Bracknell Forest; (5) Windsor and Maidenhead; and (6) Slough. A civil parish is a country subdivision, forming the lowest unit of local government in England.
Map of Berkshire, UK with Wokingham highlighted. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160%: Date: 2 August 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Coastline and administrative boundary data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England location map.svg by Spischot. Author
The RG postcode area, also known as the Reading postcode area, [2] is a group of thirty postcode districts in England, within twelve post towns.These cover west and central Berkshire (including Reading, Bracknell, Crowthorne, Hungerford, Newbury, Thatcham and Wokingham) and north Hampshire (including Basingstoke, Hook, Tadley and Whitchurch), plus a small part of south-east Oxfordshire ...
Berkshire received the title "Royal County" in 1957 due to the presence of Windsor Castle. The area has historical ties to royalty dating back to the Norman Conquest, when William the Conqueror established Windsor as a royal residence. [10] On 1 April 1974, Berkshire's boundaries changed under the Local Government Act 1972.
This is a list of places in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England.It does not include places which were formerly in Berkshire. For places which were formerly in Berkshire, see list of places transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire in 1974, and for places which were transferred from Berkshire in 1844 and 1889, see list of Berkshire boundary changes.