NEW BOOK: Volume 1 Whether you are from East Berkshire or just visiting, this book is the place to find out all about the history of some 126 different towns, suburbs, villages and hamlets around Windsor and Maidenhead, Slough and Bracknell Forest. Join David Nash Ford from berkshirehistory.com as he examines the structures, people and events that have shaped each place. Some of these histories were first published in part here on this website, but they have all been considerably expanded and are joined by many new histories of places often missed by historians, including those which only joined Berkshire in 1974 or later. Click for full details and purchase options.

  

NEW BOOK: Volume 2 Whether you are from Mid-Berkshire or just visiting, this book is the place to find out all about the history of some 113 different towns, suburbs, villages and hamlets in the Boroughs of Reading and of Wokingham and the eastern portion of the District of West Berkshire. From Streatley to Padworth and Ruscombe to Finchampstead, join David Nash Ford from berkshirehistory.com in his second volume examining the structures, people and events that have shaped each place. Some of these histories were first published in part here on this website, but they have all been considerably expanded and are joined by many new histories of places often missed by historians, including those which only joined Berkshire in 1911 or later. Click for full details and purchase options.

The towns, village and hamlets of Berkshire each have there own fascinating story to tell. Here's what we have available on our website, but you can be read extended versions and about more places (Click on the links for a list) in my books above:

Abingdon Aldermaston Aldworth Arborfield Ascot Ashbury Ashmore Green Barkham Beech Hill Beenham Beenham's Heath Binfield Binfield Hamlets Bisham Blewbury Boxford Bracknell Bradfield Bray Braywick Brightwalton Brightwell Brimpton Buckland Bucklebury Burghfield Calcot Chaddleworth Chieveley Childrey Cholsey Clewer Clewer Green Cold Ash Compton Cookham Cranbourne Crookham Crowthorne Dedworth Denchworth Didcot Donnington Drayton Earley Eastbury Easthampstead East Hendred

East Ilsley Enborne Englefield Faringdon Fawley Finchampstead Gainfield Grazeley Great Park Village Greenham Hampstead Norreys Hamstead Marshall Hare Hatch Harwell Hermitage Holyport Hungerford Hurley Hurst Kintbury Lambourn Letcombe Bassett Letcombe Regis Little Wittenham Long Wittenham Lower Basildon Maidenhead Marcham Midgham Newbury North Abingdon North Moreton Oakley Green Old Windsor Padworth Pangbourne Peasemore Purley Pusey Radley Reading Remenham Ruscombe Sandhurst Shaw Shellingford Shinfield Shottesbrooke Shrivenham

Shurlock Row Sindlesham Sonning Sotwell South Moreton Speen Stanford Dingley Stanford-in-the-Vale Steventon Stratfield Mortimer Streatley Sulham Sulhamstead Sunningdale Sunninghill Sutton Courtenay Swallowfield Swinley Thatcham Theale Tidmarsh Tilehurst Touchen End Three Mile Cross Twyford Uffington Ufton Nervet Upper Lambourn Wallingford Waltham St. Lawrence Wantage Warfield Wargrave Wash Common Water Oakley Welford West Hanney West Ilsley West Shefford Weston White Waltham Whitley Windsor Winkfield Wokingham Woodley Woolhampton Woolstone Yattendon

Some have been superseded or no longer exist:

The Roman Settlement at Frilford
The Alfredian Burgh at Wallingford
Deserted Medieval Villages

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