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Reading (England : Borough)


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    • e-uk-en

  • Variants

    • Borough of Reading (England)

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    • Descriptor

        Boroughs

    • Descriptor

        First-order administrative division

    • Associated Locale

        Great Britain

    • Associated Language

        English

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      • WikidataReading Offsite linkLabel from public data source Wikidata

    • Sources

      • found: Its An exact list of the voters at the election of burgesses to serve in Parliament for the borough of Reading in the county of Berks, 1754.
      • found: GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(adm2; 51°27ʹ00ʺN 000°58ʹ00ʺW)
      • found: GEOnet, 17 February 2016(Reading (approved and short); Borough of Reading; geopolitical entity name: United Kingdom; first-order administrative division name: Reading [Borough of Reading]; 51° 27ʹ 00ʺ N, 000° 58ʹ 00ʺ W; 51.45 [N], -.966667 [W]; first-order administrative division)
      • found: Wikipedia, 17 February 2016(Reading, Berkshire; a large town and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England; the first clear evidence for Reading as a settlement dates from the 8th century, when the town came to be known as Readingum; Reading has had some degree of local government autonomy since 1253, when the local merchant guild was granted a royal charter; since then, the town has been run by a borough corporation, as a county borough, and as a district of Berkshire; one of the largest urban areas in the United Kingdom to be without city status (after three unsuccessful bids); local government for the town of Reading is currently principally provided by Reading Borough Council, a single level unitary authority without civil parishes; Reading's municipal boundaries do not include all of the surrounding suburbs, some of which (Tilehurst, Calcot, Earley and Woodley) are, at least partly within West Berkshire or Wokingham Borough unitary authorities; these outer suburbs belong to civil parishes, in some cases with their own town status; the Borough of Reading became a unitary authority area in 1998, when Berkshire County Council was abolished under the Banham Review, and is now responsible for all aspects of local government within the borough; since 1887, the borough has included the former villages of Southcote and Whitley and small parts of Earley and Tilehurst; by 1911, it also encompassed the Oxfordshire village of Caversham and still more of Tilehurst; a small area of Mapledurham parish was added in 1977)

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      • 1993-11-29: new
      • 2016-02-20: revised

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