How many houses in wokingham

Visit the historic market town of Wokingham, the picturesque riverside villages of Sonning and Wargrave and the rural communities of Finchampstead and Remenham.

There is a mix of woodlands in the south of the borough, where remnants of the old Royal Chase of Windsor Forest remain, with scented pinewoods and conifers. Wellingtonia Avenue in Finchampstead is perhaps the most impressive.

Read our tourism and travel page to find more things to do in the borough. The borough has a strong regional economy dominated by the IT, communications and pharmaceutical sectors. Businesses are attracted by the excellent communication links to London, Heathrow and the motorway network.

Cookie settings. Accept cookies. Find my nearest A-Z Services. Between and the s there was a flourishing silk industry in the town. Silk stockings were hand-knitted until the arrival of knitting machines in the 18th century. The last silk factory closed in and was located in the present South Place off Peach Street. Its quality suggests a well-established foundry.

Roger Landen is mentioned in Eton College's accounts. The foundry moved to Chertsey sometime in Thomas Eldridge took over the foundry at Smyths Place in the mid 16th Century. He sold bells to Bray and Winkfield in This farm was named "Bell Founders Farm". The area is always described as arable land, there was no source of sand or water vital for a bell foundry.

Also consider the difficulty of moving extremely heavy bells on horse drawn carts over very muddy tracks. It is generally accepted that there was no foundry in that area, the name of the lane being a corruption of the farm name over the centuries. It was at this time that the Reading to Guildford railway opened enabling rail passengers to travel to London via Reading.

A more direct service was available when the Staines to Reading line was completed in Wokingham train station had, in , ten employees. The present station footbridge was apparently uniquely constructed from lengths of railway line and is listed. The Thames Valley Traction Company begun running a regular bus service through Wokingham in the year The second part of the Civil War did not involve the town.

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