The Reading/Wokingham Urban Area is a name given by the Office for National Statistics to a conurbation in Berkshire, England, with a population of and 390,214(2010 data estimated on 2001 census)
Its largest population centre is Reading, and it also includes Arborfield, Bracknell, Crowthorne, Earley and Wokingham.
Part of the urban area, Crowthorne, is just to the north of Sandhurst, part of the Aldershot Urban Area, and its eastern extremity, Bracknell, is just west of Ascot part of the Greater London Urban Area.
Famous quotes containing the words reading, urban and/or area:
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–62)
“The area [of toilet training] is one where a child really does possess the power to defy. Strong pressure leads to a powerful struggle. The issue then is not toilet training but who holds the reins—mother or child? And the child has most of the ammunition!”
—Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)