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Hotels in Berkshire are often required for tourists who require short term accommodation. Some may want to stay at large or small hotels in the county. Some may want to stay at in luxury hotels. Some may want to buy houses and some may want to stay at hotels in Slough. Some may want to stay at hotels in Bracknell. Some may want to stay at cheap or luury hotels in the county.
Hotels in Berkshire are often required for tourists who require short term accommodation.
Berkshire is a Home County in the South East of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least.
From a landscape perspective, Berkshire divides into two clearly distinct sections with the boundary lying roughly on a north-south line through the centre of Reading.
The eastern section of Berkshire lies largely to the south of the River Thames, with that river forming the northern boundary of the county. In two places (Slough and Reading) the county now includes land to the north of the river. Tributaries of the Thames, including the Loddon and Blackwater increase the amount of low lying riverine land in the area. Beyond the flood plains, the land rises gently to the county boundaries with Surrey and Hampshire. Much of this area is still well wooded, especially around Bracknell and Windsor Great Park.
In the west of the county and heading upstream, the Thames veers away to the north of the (current) county boundary, leaving the county behind at the Goring Gap. This is a narrow part of the otherwise quite broad river valley where, at the end of the last Ice Age, the Thames forced its way between the Chiltern Hills (to the north of the river in Oxfordshire) and the Berkshire Downs.
As a consequence, the western portion of the county is situated around the valley of the River Kennet, which joins the Thames in Reading. Fairly steep slopes on each side delineate the river's flat floodplain. To the south, the land rises steeply to the nearby county boundary with Hampshire, and the highest parts of the county lie here. The highest of these is Walbury Hill at 297 m, which is also the highest point in South East England.
To the north of the Kennet, the land rises again to the Berkshire Downs. This is a hilly area, with smaller and well-wooded valleys draining into the River Lambourn, River Pang and their tributaries, and open upland areas famous for their involvement in horse racing and the consequent ever-present training gallops.
Sport
One
football club from the county plays professional football, Reading, who were formed
in 1871. London Irish rugby club also ground share with Reading FC at the Madjeski
Stadium.
Bracknell is a town in the Bracknell Forest borough of Berkshire, England. It lies 18 km to the south east of Reading, 16 km southwest of Windsor and 53 km west of London. The town is surrounded, on the east and south, by the vast expanse of Swinley Woods and Crowthorne Woods. The town has absorbed parts of many local outlying areas including Warfield, Winkfield and Binfield.
The town covers all of the old village of Easthampstead and the hamlet of Ramslade. Easthampstead has a very long history. There is a Bronze Age round barrow at Bill Hill. Easthampstead Park was a favoured Royal hunting lodge in Windsor Forest and Catherine of Aragon was banished there until her divorce was finalised. It was later the home of the Trumbulls who were patrons of Alexander Pope from Binfield.
To the north east of the town you will find the Quelm Stone a Standing Stone and to the South West is Caesar's Camp an Iron Age Hillfort. Bracknell is a modern corruption of the Saxon word Bracknhale meaning Bracken-covered Hiding Place, which is now only used as a name for one of the schools. One of the oldest buildings in the town is the Old Manor public house, a 17th century brick manor house featuring a number of priest holes. Next door once stood the Hind's Head coaching inn, where it is said Dick Turpin used to drink. It is believed that there were once underground tunnels between the two, along which the famous highwayman could escape from the authorities. In 1723, the Grenadier Guards had a battle with the infamous bandits called the 'Wokingham Blacks' near the town. Oscar Wilde is said to have visited South Hill Park and subsequently named a character Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. He was also a regular visitor to the town with his wife, Constance.
Slough is at grid reference and is situated to the west of Greater London. Proximate towns include Windsor to the south, Maidenhead to the west, Uxbridge to the northeast and Bracknell to the southwest. Over the years Slough has expanded greatly, incorporating a number of different villages. Original villages which now form suburbs of modern day Slough include Chalvey, Cippenham, Colnbrook, George Green, Langley, Poyle, Upton, and Wexham. Other areas of the town include Brands Hill, Britwell, Huntercombe, Manor Park, Salt Hill, Upton Lea, and Windsor Meadows. The urban area (but not the borough council area) merges into the neighbouring parishes of Burnham, Datchet, Farnham Royal, and Stoke Poges.
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