Shiplake
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Worrall Thompson to sell Shiplake cottages
Antony Worrall Thompson is leaving historic Rivermead Cottages in Shiplake near Henley.
The celebrity chef has put the early 19th-century long building in Mill Lane up for sale and is moving to a larger property nearby. The row of cottages, built for workers at Shiplake Mill, was purchased by his grandfather and gradually turned into […]
Shiplake College
Shiplake College : Oxfordshire boarding school for boys and girls
Lower Shiplake
County: Oxfordshire
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Shiplake Railway Bridge
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Thamess Flood News
River Thamess from Shiplake to Hurley Lock. Status: Received at: Location:. Flood Warning. 11:10 on 17-Jan-2008 The River Thamess from Shiplake to Hurley Lock including Lower Shiplake, Wargrave, Henley and Medmenham …s
The Baskerville Arms
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Station Road
Lower Shiplake
Oxfordshire
RG9 3NY
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+44 (0)118 940 3332
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Windsor Belle Limited
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3 Garden House, Bolney Road
Lower Shiplake
Oxfordshire
RG9 3NR
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+44 (0)118 940 2393
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Rugby pitches become rowing lake
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BBC News - Pupils have ditched rugby in favour of rowing at an Oxfordshire school after the River Thames
Reading
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Reading was an important centre in the medieval period, as the site of an important monastery with strong royal connections, but suffered serious economic damage during the 17th century from which it took a long time to recover. Today it is again an important commercial centre in Southern England and is often referred to as the capital of the Thames Valley, with the headquarters of some major British companies and the UK offices of a number of major foreign multinationals, especially in the IT industry, including Microsoft, Oracle, Sage, Xansa and Yell.com. Several of these are located at the Thames Valley Business Park.
It should be noted that, depending on the definition adopted, the town is not necessarily co-terminous with the borough. Thus, for example, the borough has a population of 144,000 in an area of 40.40 km˛, whilst the Office for National Statistics' definition of the urban area of Reading is significantly larger at 232,662 people in an area of 55.35 km˛. This latter area – sometimes referred to as Greater Reading – incorporates the town's eastern and western suburbs outside the borough, in the civil parishes of Earley, Woodley, Purley-on-Thames and Tilehurst (see below for further details). This urban area is itself a component of the Reading/Wokingham Urban Area. Reading is the 17th largest settlement in England, based on the population of the urban area.[1][2]
Reading proper consists of the old ecclesiastical parishes of Reading St Mary, St Laurence and St Giles. However, even this definition can be further sub-divided into the town of Reading, as defined by the pre-19th century borough, and the outlying country estates (now housing estates) of Battle, Coley, Southcote and Whitley.[3] See below for details of the borough's development.
Reading is located at grid reference SU713733, some 66 km (41 miles) due west of central London, 48 km (30 miles) southeast of Oxford and 64 km (40 miles) east of Swindon.
The centre of Reading is on a low ridge between the Rivers Thames and Kennet close to their confluence, reflecting the town's history as a river port. Just before the confluence, the Kennet cuts through a narrow steep-sided gap in the hills forming the southern flank of the Thames flood plain. The absence of a floodplain on the Kennet in this defile enabled the development of wharves.
As Reading has grown, its suburbs have spread in three directions:
* to the west between the two rivers into the foothills of the Berkshire Downs,
* to the south and south-east on the south side of the Kennet, and
* to the north of the Thames into the Chiltern Hills.
However outside the central area, the floors of the valley containing the two rivers remain largely unimproved floodplain. As a result of this, some areas have flooded several times. Apart from one road across the Kennet flood plain, and the M4 looping to the south, the only routes between the three built-up areas are in the central area, creating road congestion there.
Reading has its own subregional catchment area, incorporating the towns of Wokingham, Bracknell and Twyford, plus large villages such as Pangbourne, Theale, Winnersh, Burghfield and Shiplake.
County: Berkshire
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