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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name = Borough of Wokingham
| settlement_type = [[Unitary authorities of England|Unitary authority]]
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| image_caption = {{ubl|From left to right|Top: [[Wokingham]] [[Wokingham Town Hall|town hall]] |Middle: [[Twyford, Berkshire|Twyford]] village centre and [[Woodley, Berkshire|Woodley]] Coronation Hall |Bottom: [[Earley]] St Peter's Church and the [[California Country Park]] near [[Arborfield Green]]}}
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| population_rank = {{English district rank|GSS=E06000041}} [[List of English districts by population|(of {{English district total}})]]
| population_density_km2 = 992
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| demographics_type1 = Ethnicity <span style="font-weight:normal;">([[2021 United Kingdom census|2021]])</span>
| demographics1_footnotes = <ref name="2021 Nomis">{{NOMIS2021|id=E06000041|title=Wokingham Local Authority|access-date=5 January 2024}}</ref>
| demographics1_title1 = [[Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom|Ethnic groups]]
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| 79.9% [[White people in the United Kingdom|White]]
| 12.9% [[British Asians|Asian]]
| 3.1% [[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed]]
| 2.4% [[Black British people|Black]]
| 1.6% [[Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom|other]]
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| 44.7% [[Religion in England#Christianity|Christianity]]
| 36.9% [[Irreligion in the United Kingdom|no religion]]
| 13.6% [[Religion in England|other]]
| 4.8% [[Islam in England|Islam]]
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| timezone = [[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]]
| utc_offset = 0
| timezone_DST = [[British Summer Time|BST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +1
| blank_name = [[ISO 3166-2:GB|ISO 3166]]
| blank1_name = [[ONS coding system|ONS code]]
| blank1_info = 00MF (ONS) E06000041 (GSS)
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The '''Borough of Wokingham''' is a [[
==History==
The district was formed on 1 April 1974 as '''Wokingham District''', under the [[Local Government Act 1972]], by the merger of the [[Wokingham|Municipal Borough of Wokingham]] and [[Wokingham Rural District]]. It is governed by [[Wokingham Borough Council]] (formerly Wokingham District Council), which has been a [[unitary authority]] since 1 April 1998, following the abolition of Berkshire County Council under the [[Banham Review]].<ref>Berkshire (Structural Change) Order 1996 (SI 1996/1879), [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1879/article/3/made art.3]</ref> The district was granted [[borough status in the United Kingdom|borough status]] in 2007, following a petition to the Queen.<ref>"[http://www.wokingham.gov.uk/Easysite/lib/serveDocument.asp?doc=82479&pgid=38824&assetID=14415 Annual Monitoring Report December 2007]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}", p. 4 bottom, Wokingham Borough Council</ref>
==Education==
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State-funded schools in the Borough of Wokingham include nine [[secondary school]]s, two [[special school]]s and numerous [[primary school]]s. There are also a number of [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private schools]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}
[[Bracknell and Wokingham College]] is the main [[Further education|further]] and [[adult education]] provider for the borough, just outside the borough its headquarters is in [[Bracknell]]. The Borough's closest [[higher education]] provider is the main [[Whiteknights Park]] campus of the [[University of Reading]] immediately north-west,{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} most of which
==Geography==
Elevations range between 30 and 70 metres above sea level except higher in about 5% of the borough. The highest is an escarpment containing parts of the rural and wooded northern area, the hinterland of three Thames-side villages, facing the 30-mile long [[Chiltern Hills|Chilterns]] AONB, west and north.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chilternsaonb.org/explore-enjoy/interactive-map.html
Approximately a right-angled triangle, the borough is long north to south. It uses as its longest edge the course of the [[River Loddon|Loddon]] and [[River Thames|Thames]] along its north-west, with a similarly salient-containing eastern boundary and an almost straight southern boundary. Clockwise the boundaries are approximately 10, 8 and 5 miles on a direct path from point to point. The southern boundary is approximately the [[Roman road from London to Bath]] through a highly coniferous [[Swinley Forest]] which sits in geology on the naturally acidic, [[Bagshot Formation]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}
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Excluding lower-tier districts, Central Government has classified Wokingham as the least needy Local Authority. Government funding is about £120 per head per year. This is the lowest among the combined category of county councils and unitary authorities, the basis on which it is overall assessed, and compares with over £1000 per head in others such as the [[London Borough of Hackney]].<ref>[[More or Less (radio programme)|More or Less]], Radio 4 programme. Date needed.</ref>
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