Emmbrook is a suburb of the town of

Wokingham Wokingham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England. It is the main administrative centre of the wider Borough of Wokingham. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 38,284 and the wider built-up area had a populati ...

in the county of

Berkshire Berkshire ( ; abbreviated ), officially the Royal County of Berkshire, is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Oxfordshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the north-east, Greater London ...

, England. The suburb takes its name from the

Emm Brook The Emm Brook, sometimes known as the Embrook or Emmbrook, is a small river in the English county of Berkshire. It is a tributary of the River Loddon which it meets at the village of Hurst. The Wokingham suburb of Emmbrook is named after the ...

, a small river that is a tributary of the

River Loddon The River Loddon is a tributary of the River Thames in southern England. It rises at Basingstoke in Hampshire and flows northwards for to meet the Thames at Wargrave in Berkshire. Together, the Loddon and its tributaries drain an area of . Th ...

. There are four schools in Emmbrook: Emmbrook Junior School, Emmbrook Infant School, St Cecilia's Primary school and The Emmbrook School (11-18yrs). The latter is one of four main secondary schools serving Wokingham, and one of two schools in Wokingham with a specialism in Maths and Computing. Other local amenities in Emmbrook include three pubs: The Dog and Duck, The Rifle Volunteer and The Emmbrook Inn (formerly The Thatched Cottage); shops, a village hall, two social centres, a small business park, a post office and an Indian restaurant. Sports clubs include Wokingham & Emmbrook FC, Emmbrook & Bearwood Cricket Club and Emmbrook & Wokingham Boxing Club. The 1st Emmbrook Scout Troop, based at Hedley Hall, was launched on February 19, 1964 by Helmut van Emden. It has been run by Martin and Jessamy Wilson since 1988. It boasts one Explorer pack, two Scout packs, two Cub packs and two Beaver packs, with over 200 local children attending. Holt Copse and Joel Park, named for local landowner

Solomon Joel Solomon Barnato Joel (23 May 1865 – 22 May 1931) was a British-South African business magnate. He moved to Cape Colony in the 1880s where he made his fortune in connection with diamonds, later becoming a financier with interests in mining, b ...

, lie to the south east, and Old Forest Meadows lie to the north west of Emmbrook.

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