A report on Berkshire and Newbury, Berkshire

Windsor Castle, viewed from the Long Walk

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

Virginia Water Lake on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park

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

View of Newbury and surroundings from Donnington Castle

The Select Car Leasing Stadium in Reading

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.

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This wood, perhaps no longer extant, was west of Frilsham, near Newbury.

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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

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

Newbury, Oxford A34

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.

Maidenhead

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Classic Victorian architecture—All Saints' Church, Boyne Hill

Maidenhead clock tower outside the railway station

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.

The (Brunel-built) Great Western Main Line passes through the town, calling at Maidenhead railway station and offering frequent, direct services to London, Reading, Newbury, Didcot and Oxford.

West Berkshire

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West Berkshire is a local government district in Berkshire, England, administered from Newbury by West Berkshire Council.

Lambourn

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Detail on the south side of the church at the exact spot as in a sketch made by J.R.R.Tolkien in August 1912

The Ditchley Portrait, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, c.1592

Lambourn and Lynch Wood from Hungerford Hill

Jockeys riding thoroughbreds to the gallops in Lambourn

Racehorse paddock on farmland at Kingwood Stud

Lambourn is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.

It lies just north of the M4 Motorway between Swindon and Newbury, and borders Wiltshire to the west and Oxfordshire to the north.

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.

River Lambourn

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River Lambourn between road and pavement, Upper Lambourn, Berkshire

The River Lambourn is a chalk stream in the English county of Berkshire.

Below Shaw is the confluence of the River Lambourn with the River Kennet, located between Newbury and Thatcham.

Chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, erected around 1304

Thatcham

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Waterside Park, the home of Thatcham Town

Thatcham is an historic market town and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, centred 3 miles (5 km) east of Newbury, 14 miles (24 km) west of Reading and 54 miles (87 km) west of London.

Wantage

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Historic market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England.

Former head office of Wantage Urban District Council in Portway

Stagecoach Gold bus in Wantage Market Place on former route X30 (now S9)

The former head office of the Wantage Tramway Company in Mill Street

Front of King Alfred's Academy Centre Site

The Old Town Hall, Wantage, completed in 1878

Statue of Alfred the Great, by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Although within the boundaries of the historic county of Berkshire, it has been administered as part of the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire since 1974.

The town is on Letcombe Brook, 8 mi south-west of Abingdon, 24 mi north-west of Reading, 15 mi south-west of Oxford and 14 mi north-west of Newbury.

Greenham

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Greenham is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.

Greenham commences immediately south-east of Newbury and is in West Berkshire.