Holybrook
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Holybrook is a civil parish on the outskirts of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. The parish takes its name from the Holy Brook, a watercourse which forms its southern boundary. There is no settlement called Holybrook, and the parish is largely made up of two suburbs of Reading, Calcot and Fords Farm.
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The civil parish is a recent creation, dating from -1123700455 when it was created from that part of the parish of Theale that lay to the east of the M4 motorway.
The parish has an elected parish council and falls within the area of the unitary authority of West Berkshire. Both the parish council and the unitary authority are responsible for different aspects of local government.
The parish falls within the Reading West parliamentary constituency.
