Wokingham
Unitary authority in southeast England, created in 1998 from part of the former county of Berkshire.
Area
179 sq km/69 sq mi
Towns and cities
Wokingham (administrative headquarters), Twyford
Features
River Thames forms northern border of authority; Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Corps Museum (Arborfield); Swallowfield Park, house built for 2nd Earl of Clarendon in 1690; National Dairy Museum; Henley Regatta course; large areas of mixed woodland including remnants of old Royal Chase of Windsor Forest and tree-lined avenues; Finchampstead Ridges
Industries
light engineering, electronics and information technology, telecommunications, computer components and software, plastics
Population
(2001) 150,200
Wokingham
| Town, administrative centre of Wokingham unitary authority, in southern England, between Reading and Bracknell; population (2001) 30,400. The chief forest town of Windsor Forest, it has been a market centre for over 700 years. |
| All Saints' church has a carved Perpendicular Gothic font, and there are almshouses in the town, some of which date from 1451. |
| The poets John Gay, Pope, Swift, and Arbuthnot are said to have composed the ballad of ‘Molly Mog’ at the local Rose Inn. |
