Tilehurst

Tilehurst is a village in Berkshire, England, on the western outskirts of the Reading. The village is administratively split between Tilehurst Within in the Borough of Reading and Tilehurst Without in West Berkshire. Tilehurst Within includes the village centre, known as Tilehurst Triangle. The village extends from the River Thames in the north to the A4 road in the south. Tilehurst Within includes all or parts of the borough wards of Tilehurst, Kentwood and Norcot. Tilehurst Without forms part of the West Berkshire civil parish of Tilehurst, which also includes the northern part of Calcot and a small rural area west of the village.

Tilehurst is a village in Berkshire, England, on the western outskirts of the Reading. The village is administratively split between Tilehurst Within in the Borough of Reading and Tilehurst Without in West Berkshire. Tilehurst Within includes the village centre, known as Tilehurst Triangle. The village extends from the River Thames in the north to the A4 road in the south. Tilehurst Within includes all or parts of the borough wards of Tilehurst, Kentwood and Norcot. Tilehurst Without forms part of the West Berkshire civil parish of Tilehurst, which also includes the northern part of Calcot and a small rural area west of the village. ===Administrative history=== Tilehurst was an ancient parish. It historically included Theale to the south-west and also extended eastwards towards Reading as far as the Reading Union Workhouse (which later became Battle Hospital) on Oxford Road, and included Prospect Park. Theale became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1832, and a separate civil parish in 1894. The eastern end of the parish of Tilehurst around the workhouse and Prospect Park was incorporated into the borough of Reading in September 1887. The civil parish boundary was adjusted to match the new borough boundary eighteen months later in March 1889, with the part of Tilehurst in the borough of Reading being transferred to the civil parish of Reading St Mary. A much larger part of Tilehurst was transferred to the borough of Reading in 1911, including the main village around Tilehurst Triangle (then also known as Tilehurst Common) and Tilehurst's parish church of St Michael at Churchend. The civil parish of Tilehurst was reduced as part of the 1911 changes to just cover the then largely rural west of the old parish that was not incorporated into the borough of Reading. Reading Borough Council proposed to the government that the increasingly urbanised Tilehurst civil parish (as well as Purley on Thames and the eastern part of Theale) should be transferred into the borough of Reading as part of the major local government reforms of 1974. The government decided instead to leave Reading's boundaries unchanged from when they had last been reviewed in 1911, placing the Tilehurst civil parish in Newbury district, which became West Berkshire in 1998. ==External links== Tilehurst Parish Council Royal Berkshire History: Tilehurst

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