A report on Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Eton, Berkshire and Berkshire

View of Eton looking across the River Thames from Windsor
Windsor Castle, viewed from the Long Walk
Map of wards within Windsor and Maidenhead
Eton Town Council offices, 102 High Street
Virginia Water Lake on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park
Historic map of Berkshire
The Oracle Corporation campus
Slough Trading Estate plays a major part in making Slough an important business centre in South East England
The grandstand at Ascot Racecourse
The Select Car Leasing Stadium in Reading
King Edward III of England
Catherine, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge
Ricky Gervais

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is a Royal Borough of Berkshire, in South East England.

- Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

Eton is a town in Berkshire, England, on the opposite bank of the River Thames to Windsor, connected to it by Windsor Bridge.

- Eton, Berkshire

It is named after both the towns of Maidenhead and Windsor, the borough also covers the nearby towns of Ascot and Eton.

- Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

Within the boundaries of the historic county of Buckinghamshire, in 1974 it became part of the Berkshire admin area following the Local Government Act 1972; since 1998 it has been part of the unitary authority of Windsor and Maidenhead.

- Eton, Berkshire

The historic county, therefore, includes territory that is now administered by the Vale of White Horse and parts of South Oxfordshire in Oxfordshire, but excludes Caversham, Slough and five less populous settlements in the east of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.

- Berkshire

Berkshire took over administration of Slough and Eton and part of the former Eton Rural District from Buckinghamshire.

- Berkshire

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Windsor Castle, viewed from the Long Walk

Windsor, Berkshire

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Windsor Castle, viewed from the Long Walk
The Last Supper by Franz de Cleyn in the West Gallery of Windsor parish church of St John the Baptist
The Market Place and Windsor Guildhall
Photochrom of Windsor and Windsor Castle looking across the Thames, 1895
St John the Baptist's parish church
All Saints' parish church
Entrance to Legoland Windsor Resort
Central Station refashioned as a shopping precinct
Windsor & Eton Riverside railway station
Aerial view of Windsor around its castle and Eton in the distance, with Home Park in the bottom right
Windsor Seal
Queen Elizabeth II
Sir Sydney Camm memorial, near Alexandra Gardens

Windsor is a historic market town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England.

It is immediately south of the River Thames, which forms its boundary with its smaller, ancient twin town of Eton.

Maidenhead High Street

Maidenhead

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Maidenhead High Street
Map of Maidenhead from 1945
Classic Victorian architecture—All Saints' Church, Boyne Hill
Maidenhead clock tower outside the railway station
Maidenhead Town Hall
Maidenhead Library
Maidenhead Railway Bridge built by Brunel
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway by Turner (1844) depicts an early locomotive of the Great Western Railway crossing the River Thames on Brunel's recently completed Maidenhead Railway Bridge.
The entrance to York Road, the oldest continuously used senior football ground in the world
William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough was an all round sportsman, politician and public servant who performed many good works for the town.

Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England, on the southwestern bank of the River Thames.

Continuing by road to the South-East leads to the historic, royal twin towns of Windsor and Eton.