Borough of Wokingham: Difference between revisions

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| official_name = Borough of Wokingham

| settlement_type = [[Unitary authorities of England|Unitary authority]], and [[Borough status in the United Kingdom|Borough]]

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| subdivision_name2map_caption = [[SouthShown Eastwithin England[[Berkshire]]

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| established_date1subdivision_type2 = 1[[Regions Aprilof 1974England|Region]]

| seat_typesubdivision_name2 = [[South East = Admin HQEngland]]

| seat subdivision_type3 = [[WokinghamCeremonial county]]

| government_type subdivision_name3 = Unitary authority[[Berkshire]]

| governing_body subdivision_type4 = [[Wokingham Borough Council]]Status

| leader_title established_title1 = LeadershipIncorporated

| leader_name established_date1 = Leader1 &April Cabinet1974

| area_total_km2government_type = 178.98Unitary authority

| population_as_ofleader_title = {{United Kingdom statistics year}} = Leadership

| utc_offset population_total = 0177,500

| timezone_DST population_as_of = [[British Summer Time|BST]]2021

==GovernmentHistory==

{{SeealsoSee also|List of schools in Wokingham}}

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 [[IndependentPrivate schoolschools in the (United Kingdom)|independentprivate 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 falls within the Wokingham Borough boundary.

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# |title=The Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - explore - enjoy. Retrieved 2015-01-28 |access-date=28 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206021145/http://www.chilternsaonb.org/explore-enjoy/interactive-map.html# |archive-date=6 February 2015 |deadurl-urlstatus=no |df=dmy-all live}}</ref> A geological part of that range of hills, Bowsey Hill reaches 137m, in Wargrave civil parish, {{convert|1|mi}} from the river.<ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/showmap.php?gridref=SU778832 Geograph.org.uk map] retrieved 2015-01-28</ref>

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}}

The town in the district is Wokingham. The villages are Arborfield, Barkham, Charvil, Earley, Finchampstead, Hurst, Sonning, Remenham, Ruscombe, Shinfield, Twyford, Wargrave, Three Mile Cross, Winnersh, Spencers Wood and Woodley. Two villages have a wide range of small retail and visitor facilities: Wargrave and Twyford. In major employment areas of trading and manufacturing Winnersh and Finchampstead are prominent. The village of Crowthorne is shared between Wokingham and the neighbouring borough of Bracknell Forest.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

The borough has the highest proportion of home ownership of the six local authorities in Berkshire: combining the social (housing association and local authority provided) and private (private landlord) rented sectors, Slough's returns recorded in 2011 that its rented sector comprised 46% of its housing, whereas 18% of Wokingham's residents rented their homes.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

!colspan=6|Tenure in Berkshire compared<ref name=ons>{{Cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/# |title=[[Office for National Statistics]] |accessdateaccess-date=22 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030211201309/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/# |archivedatearchive-date=11 February 2003 |deadurl-urlstatus=no |df=dmy-all live}}</ref>

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