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.
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