A report on Berkshire and Maidenhead

Windsor Castle, viewed from the Long Walk

Virginia Water Lake on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park

Classic Victorian architecture—All Saints' Church, Boyne Hill

Maidenhead clock tower outside the railway station

Slough Trading Estate plays a major part in making Slough an important business centre in South East England

The Select Car Leasing Stadium in Reading

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.

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The population is mostly based in the urban areas to the east and centre of the county: the largest towns here are Reading, Slough, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Woodley, Wokingham, Windsor, Earley, Sandhurst, and Crowthorne.

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M4 bridge over the River Neath (left)
original A48(M) bridge (right)

M4 motorway

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Motorway in the United Kingdom running from west London to southwest Wales.

Animated map showing build progress at five-years (or greater) intervals.
Note: When the Second Severn Crossing was opened in 1996, the M4 was re-routed and the section of motorway between Junctions 21 to 23 became the M48.

Construction of electronic indicator signs for the variable speed limit scheme at junction 27 and a new concrete reservation (2010)

M4 junction with the M25 near Heathrow Airport

The Maidenhead bypass (J7-J9) opened in 1961, the section from Slough to Maidenhead (J5-J7) opened in 1963 and J1-J5 opened on 24 March 1965 incorporating the Chiswick Flyover.

Junction 8/9 near Maidenhead, Berkshire, and High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire is the only one in the UK with dual numbers.

Reading, Berkshire

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The earliest map of Reading, published in 1611 by John Speed

View of Reading from Caversham by Joseph Farington in 1793

Current boundaries of the Borough of Reading

River Kennet during the 2007 floods at the riverside level of The Oracle

Borough of Reading population growth rate from 1801 to 2011

Reading International Business Park. This crescent of offices beside the A33 are home to Verizon, a telecommunications company. They were formerly the European headquarters of WorldCom before its demise

The central lake makes a virtue of the necessity of flood alleviation measures

Green Park wind turbine viewed from Lime Square

The Abbey Gateway, where Jane Austen went to school

The Royal Berkshire Hospital original frontage, built in 1839 with bath stone

The River Thames from Caversham Bridge looking eastwards

Aerial view of Reading station in August 2014

A Great Western Railway with a service to London

Reading station platforms showing new footbridge

Part of the University of Reading's main Whiteknights Campus

The rear garden, with the original East Thorpe House in the centre

St Mary's Church tower, chequered with flint and ashlar

The interior of the ruined chapter house

The Madejski Stadium, home of Reading Football Club

The Madejski Stadium as viewed from the stadium's north stand.

The Voco Reading Hotel, pictured when still known as the Millennium Madejski

The Reading Half Marathon 2004 climbing Russell Street in West Reading

Reading is a town and borough in Berkshire, South-East England.

Reading is 40 mi east of Swindon, 28 mi south of Oxford, 40 mi west of London, 15 mi north of Basingstoke, 13 mi southwest of Maidenhead and 15 mi east of Newbury.

Windsor, Berkshire

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The Last Supper by Franz de Cleyn in the West Gallery of Windsor parish church of St John the Baptist

Photochrom of Windsor and Windsor Castle looking across the Thames, 1895

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

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.

The town is situated 21.7 mi west of Charing Cross, central London, 5.8 mi southeast of Maidenhead, and 15.8 mi east of the county town of Reading.

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

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Map of wards within Windsor and Maidenhead

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

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

View of Eton looking across the River Thames from Windsor

Eton, Berkshire

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Eton Town Council offices, 102 High Street

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

Thames Valley Buses operates Monday to Saturday buses on the Slough – Eton – Eton Wick - Taplow - Maidenhead route (bus 15).

Slough

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Slough Trading Estate played a major part in making Slough an important business centre in South East England.

Old Town Hall: Council's headquarters 1937-2011, now a school.

Slough is a large town and unparished area in the unitary authority of the same name in Berkshire, England (within the historic county of Buckinghamshire of which part of the town spills over to), 20 mi west of central London (Charing Cross) and 19 mi north-east of Reading.

Slough is 20 mi west of Charing Cross, central London, 2 mi north of Windsor, 5 mi east of Maidenhead, 11 mi south-east of High Wycombe and 19 mi north-east of the county town of Reading.

River Thames

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River that flows through southern England including London.

A statue of Old Father Thames by Raffaelle Monti at St John's Lock, Lechlade

Sculpture of Tamesis. Downstream keystone of the central arch of Henley Bridge

The marker stone at the official source of the River Thames named Thames Head near Kemble

The Thames Barrier provides protection against floods

The Thames passes by some of the sights of London, including the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye

The Thames passing through the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

London Stone at Staines, built in 1285 marked the customs limit of the Thames and the City of London's jurisdiction

Waterstand of Thames at low tide (left) and high tide (right) in comparison at Blackfriars Bridge in London

London City Airport is on the site of a dock

European LGM refuges, 20,000 years ago. The Thames was a minor river that joined the Rhine, in the southern North Sea basin at this time.

A geological map of the London Basin; the London Clay is marked in dark brown

The confluence of the Rivers Thames and Brent. The narrowboat is heading up the River Brent. From this point as far as Hanwell the Brent has been canalised and shares its course with the main line of the Grand Union Canal. From Hanwell the Brent can be traced to various sources in the Barnet area.

The Tower of London begun in the 11th century, with Tower Bridge, built 800 years later

A 1616 engraving by Claes Van Visscher showing the Old London Bridge, with St Mary's Overie (over-the-river), now Southwark Cathedral in the foreground

Michael Faraday giving his card to Father Thames, caricature commenting on a letter of Faraday's on the state of the river in The Times in July 1855

Satirical cartoon by William Heath, showing a woman observing monsters in a drop of London water (at the time of the Commission on the London Water Supply report, 1828)

The Thames as it flows through east London, with the Isle of Dogs in the centre

Houseboats on the River Thames, in the St Margaret's, Twickenham district

The London Cable Car, over the River Thames

Pool of London looking west, from the high-level walkway on Tower Bridge. Click on the picture for a longer description

A container ship unloading at Northfleet Hope terminal, Tilbury

A ship heading downstream past Coryton Refinery

Rubbish traps are used on the Thames to filter debris as it flows through central London

The Millennium Footbridge with St Paul's Cathedral in the background

Cambridge cross the finish line ahead of Oxford in the 2007 Boat Race, viewed from Chiswick Bridge

A seal in the river at St Saviour's Dock, London

The flooded Canvey Island sea front, amusements and residential areas in 1953

Houses of Parliament Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement effet de soleil) – Claude Monet

The first Westminster Bridge as painted by Canaletto in 1746.

The River Thames from Richmond House by Canaletto, 1747

Maidenhead Railway Bridge as Turner saw it in 1844

Monet's Trouée de soleil dans le brouillard, Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog, 1904

Whistler's Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge (c. 1872–1875)

Foggy Morning on the Thames – James Hamilton (between 1872 and 1878)

Boating on the Thames - John Lavery, circa 1890

The Thames flows through or alongside Ashton Keynes, Cricklade, Lechlade, Oxford, Abingdon-on-Thames, Wallingford, Goring-on-Thames and Streatley, Pangbourne and Whitchurch-on-Thames, Reading, Wargrave, Henley-on-Thames, Marlow, Maidenhead, Windsor and Eton, Staines-upon-Thames and Egham, Chertsey, Shepperton, Weybridge, Sunbury-on-Thames, Walton-on-Thames, Molesey and Thames Ditton.

The Anglian ice advance resulted in a new course for the Thames through Berkshire and on into London, after which the river rejoined its original course in southern Essex, near the present River Blackwater estuary.

Part of the facade of Camp Hopson of Newbury, dating from 1663 with classical brick pilasters, in 2014.

Newbury, Berkshire

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View of Newbury and surroundings from Donnington Castle

The Kennet and Avon Canal runs through the middle of Newbury

The bridge next to the Lock Stock and Barrel pub

Main Street in Newbury, view from the Bridge

Intersection between Northcroft Street, Northbrook Street and Bridge Street

The Berkshire Stand and The Grandstand at Newbury Racecourse

Newbury is a market town in the county of Berkshire, England, and is home to the administrative headquarters of West Berkshire Council.

The local economy is inter-related to that of the eastern M4 corridor, which has most of its industrial, logistical and research businesses close to Newbury, mostly around Reading, Bracknell, Maidenhead and Slough.

Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency)

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Maidenhead is a constituency in Berkshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The electorate of Maidenhead and Windsor was becoming too large, so the Boundary Commission for England separated the seats for the next election, due in 1996 or 1997.

M4 corridor

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Area in the United Kingdom adjacent to the M4 motorway, which runs from London to South Wales.

The Second Severn Crossing carries the M4 motorway between England and Wales

The Digital Technium at Swansea University

Important cities and towns linked by the M4 include (from east to west) London, Slough, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Reading, Newbury, Swindon, Bath, Bristol, Newport, Cardiff, Port Talbot and Swansea.

The eastern end of the English M4 corridor is home to a large number of technology companies, particularly in Berkshire, Swindon and the Thames Valley.