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READING
A n a n c i e n t and very considerable market and assize town and a parliaÂ
mentary and county and municipal borough'w ith separate jurisdiction, the
county town of Berkshire, the head of a poor law union, inland revenue
collection, petty sessional division and county court district, in the
Southern division of the county, in the rural deanery of Reading, archÂ
deaconry of Berks and diocese of O x fo rd ; it is 8 miles south-west from
Henley-on-Thames, 26 south-east from Abingdon, 68 from Bath, 13
south-west from Maidenhead, 17 east from N ew bury, 26 south-east from
Wantage, 16 west from W indsor, 16 north from Basingstoke, 45 from
Southampton, 15 south-east from W allingford, 28 south-east from Oxford
and 36 by rail or 39 by road from London, and is situated on two small
eminences whose declivities fall into a pleasant vale, through which flow
two branches of the Kennet, uniting with the Thames at the extremity
of the tow n : on the banks of the Kennet, which is navigable to N ew bury
and Froxfield, are some excellent w h a rv es: four bridges cross this river,
and there is also an iron bridge over the Thames, and a foot bridge
at Caversham W e ir, constructed in 1885. The Kennet and A v o n canal
opens up a communication w ith the Severn.
Reading is an important station on the Great W estern railw ay (some of
the trains running irom hence to Paddingtonâ and vice versaâ without
stoppage), and is the junction of the Berks and Hants branch to
New bury, Hungerford and Basingstoke with the main line. In 1897-1899
the station was very much enlarged at considerable cost. Reading is
also a terminus of the South Eastern and Chatham (Reading, Guildford
and Reigate branch) and South Western railways, which occupy a joint
station immediately south of the Great W estern station.
The town is well built and has several good streets, which are well
paved and lighted w ith gas from works the property of the Reading
Gas Co. and also b y electric light, and the inhabitants have a constant
supply of water from the Kennet works in the Bath road, belonging to
the Corporation; the houses are mostly built of red brick.
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Tramways, the property of the Corporation, are laid down throughout
the town, and have been provided w ith electrio power sin-- July 22nd,
1903; the generating station is in M ill lane.
The borough, formerly divided into ten wards, was by " T h e K c âdii'g
(Extension) Order, 1911,â which came into force on.the 9th Xo.cm i
1911, extended to include the U rban District of Caversham an-.l
of the parishes of Theale and Tilehurst, and now censists of *'
wards, respectively, A b b ey , Battle) Castle, Church, East, K