Thames Valley Park (also known as TVP) is a high-tech

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adjacent to the

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on the eastern outskirts of

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in Berkshire, England. Companies based at the park include

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, Steria, SGI,

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Websense Forcepoint, an American multinational corporation software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, that develops computer security software and data protection, cloud access security broker, firewall and cross-domain solutions. Forcepoint was fo ...

, Oracle,

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and

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. The site had formerly been Earley Power Station, which had been operational from the early 1940s until the early 1970s.

Transport links

TVP is at the northern terminus of the A3290 (formerly part of the

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) giving good connections to the M4 and A4. Originally the A329(M) was supposed to follow the river west from the park towards a junction with Vastern Road. A free bus service links TVP to

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, and the latter has good connections for

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and Heathrow Airport. A railway station to serve the park had been proposed in the 1998 Reading Borough Local Plan,http://ww2.reading.gov.uk/documents/servingyou/planning/borough_plan/bp_appendix8.pdf but this was never built.

References

External links

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Official travel information site
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