Wokingham Without is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

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 ...

district of the English 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 ...

. It was formed in 1894 when the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

was split into two parts — one rural and one urban. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 Census is 7,011. The parish originally curved around Wokingham proper from north to south in a west-facing crescent. The area to the north is called Ashridge (anciently called Hertoke). However, in more recent years, this area has been transferred to the parish of St Nicholas Hurst. The area to the south of

is modern Wokingham Without. It consists of the ecclesiastical

of St. Sebastian's, formed in 1871, divided into two sections. The largely rural north includes the

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f ...

of Heathlands (alias St Sebastians),

Holme Green Holme Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Wokingham Without, in the Wokingham district, in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. The settlement lies surrounded by farmland between Wokingham and Crowthorne Crowthorne is a vil ...

and Gardeners Green. The southern end of the parish is more urbanized, and includes Ravenswood (anciently called Bigshot) and what is really an extension of the

Crowthorne Crowthorne is a village, and civil parish, in the Bracknell Forest district of southeastern Berkshire, England. It had a population of 7,806 at the United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 census. Crowthorne is the location of Wellington College, Be ...

urban area.

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at Wixenford is actually just in Wokingham Without, rather than Wokingham. It moved to Wixenford House in 1937. The northern part of the Parish forms a major part of a Strategic Development Location (SDL) , one of four areas earmarked for intensive residential development by the Borough Council. Part of the SDL north of the Reading to Waterloo railway, originally called Buckhurst Farm but now known as Montague Park, has already been developed. This area lies outside of Wokingham Without. The area of the SDL within Wokingham Without is to be developed.

References

External links

Wokingham Without Parish Council official website
Populated places established in 1894 Wokingham Civil parishes in Berkshire {{Berkshire-geo-stub