Reading Blue Coat School is a boys' independent school (and co-educational in the 6th form) in Holme Park in the village of Sonning, in the English county of Berkshire, to the east of the town of Reading. It is situated beside the River Thames, and was established in 1646 by Richard Aldworth, who named it "Aldworth's Hospital".
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