Tilehurst or Tilehurst Without is a
civil parish
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in the district of
West Berkshire
West Berkshire is a local government district in Berkshire, England, administered from Newbury by West Berkshire Council.
History
The district of Newbury was formed on 1 April 1974, as a merger of the borough of Newbury, Bradfield Rural Dist ...
, in the
English
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county of
Berkshire
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. It includes that part of the larger
Reading
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suburb of
Tilehurst
Tilehurst is a suburb of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. It lies to the west of the centre of Reading, and extends from the River Thames in the north to the A4 road in the south. The suburb is partly within the boundar ...
that lies outside the Reading Borough boundary, together with the northern part of the adjoining suburb of
Calcot, and a small rural area west of the two suburbs.
The parish is bordered by the Borough of Reading, and the West Berkshire civil parishes of
Holybrook
Holybrook is a civil parish, forming a contiguous part of Reading in West Berkshire and is a mixture of urban, suburban land with watercourses and flood meadows in Berkshire, England. The parish takes its name from the Holy Brook, a watercourse ...
,
Theale
Theale () is a large village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England, southwest of Reading and 10 miles (16 km) east of Thatcham. The compact parish is bounded to the south and south-east by the Kennet & Avon Canal (which here incorpo ...
,
Sulham
Sulham is a village in West Berkshire, England. The larger village of Tidmarsh is adjacent to Sulham on the west side, with Tilehurst on the east side.
Governance
The two villages of Sulham and Tidmarsh share the combined civil parish council ...
, and
Purley on Thames
Purley on Thames (known locally as Purley) is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. Purley is centred north-west of Reading, east of Pangbourne, and south-east of Oxford. Consequently, Reading is the principal social, economic a ...
. It lies entirely within the
Reading West parliamentary constituency
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.
In the 2001 census there were 14,683 residents of the parish.
Of these, 7,323 were male and 7,360 female, distributed among 5,571 households.
Of these, 11 people lived in
communal establishments.
The ratio of employed to unemployed residents is approximately 10:1.
In addition to this are the 24% of residents who are neither employed nor unemployed but "economically inactive".
The average working resident works approximately 40 hours per week in managerial or professional employment.
The
mean
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For a data set, the '' ari ...
age of a parish resident is 37.47; the
median is 38.00.
References
{{West Berkshire
Tilehurst
West Berkshire District
Civil parishes in Berkshire