Berkshire
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Berkshire | |
Geography | |
Status | Ceremonial and Non-metropolitan county (no county council) |
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Region | South East England |
Area - Total |
Ranked 40th 1,262 km² |
ONS code | |
NUTS 3 | UKJ11 |
Demographics | |
Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density |
Ranked 26th 812,200 643 / km² |
Ethnicity | 88.7% White 6.8% S.Asian 2.0% Afro-Carib. |
Politics | |
No county council | |
Members of Parliament |
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Districts | |
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Berkshire is a county in the south of England (part of the UK). It is to the west of London. Its county town is named Reading. In the past, a town named Abingdon was the county town, but this town is now not in Berkshire.
Berkshire is also named Royal Berkshire.
[edit] Cities, towns and villages
- Bracknell
- Datchet
- Caversham
- Hungerford
- Maidenhead
- Newbury
- Reading
- Slough
- Windsor, home of Windsor Castle, and which gives its name to the House of Windsor
- Wokingham
The towns below are not part of Berkshire now, but were in the past.
- Abingdon
- Didcot
- Wallingford
- Wantage
- Faringdon