Berkshire

Berkshire is a county in southeast England. It is west of London. Its county town is Reading. In the past, a town named Abingdon was the county town, but this town is not in Berkshire any more.

Berkshire
Geography
Status	Ceremonial and Non-metropolitan county (no county council)
Region	South East England
Area - Total	Ranked 40th 1,262 km2 (487 sq mi)
ONS code
NUTS 3	UKJ11
Demography
Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 26th 812,200 643/km2 (1,670/sq mi)
Ethnicity	88.7% White 6.8% S.Asian 2.0% Afro-Carib.
Politics
No county council
Members of Parliament	Adam Afriyie Richard Benyon Andrew Mackay Fiona Mactaggart Theresa May John Redwood Martin Salter Rob Wilson
Districts
West Berkshire (Unitary) Reading (Unitary) Wokingham (Unitary) Bracknell Forest (Unitary) Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary) Slough (Unitary)

Berkshire is also known as the Royal County of Berkshire.

Cities, towns and villages

• Bracknell
• Datchet
• Caversham
• Hungerford
• Maidenhead
• Newbury
• Reading
• Slough
• Windsor, home of Windsor Castle, and which gives its name to the House of Windsor
• Wokingham

The towns below are not part of Berkshire now, but were in the past.

• Abingdon
• Didcot
• Wallingford
• Wantage
• Faringdon