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 Site Home » Bracknell, Berkshire - Where to live  Uploading ....This report is designed to assist you if you considering moving to the Bracknell area, if you are relocating from another area of the United Kingdom or from abroad. It will give you a basis from which to approach searching for and purchasing or renting a home in and around Bracknell.
Bracknell is in Berkshire, west of London, and the M4 runs through the entire length of the county. The county is famous for glorious countryside, picturesque villages and some of the best reaches of the River Thames. Living in Berkshire also gives the option of a wide range of towns that could hardly provide a greater contrast. There is the former New Town of Bracknell, the industrial area of Slough, the more typical English town of Reading, with a contrast of new and old industries, then there is the Saxon market town of Wokingham, fashionable Maidenhead, and Windsor, with its royal connections.
Bracknell itself can be found in the Bracknell Forest borough, which covers 42 square miles between the M4 and M3 and has a population of around 110,100.
Brackell itself dates back to the Iron Age. However, the Bracknell that we know of current times grew from a small Victorian market town, which was designated in 1949 as one of 8 New Towns built around London. When its New Town status was dissolved in 1982, over 12,000 houses had been build and the Bracknell Development Corporation provided the land for some 6,000 more homes, along with industrial and warehouse areas, offices, shops, roads, community centres, churches and public houses. Bracknell is the centre of commerce and shopping for the immediate vicinity, and it is planned to expand further over the course of the next 20 years.
Bracknell is also close to to Reading, which sits in the Thames Valley, and a shade over 40 miles outside London, and enjoys a superb transportation network. It is served by three junctions of the M4, and easy access to the M25, M40 and M3. Heathrow and Gatwick are nearby, and the railway station offers travel to much of the country. Reading is an important engineering, commercial and electronics centre, forming part of Silicon Valley. Reading also has great shopping facilities, having most of the well-known stores and a market four days a week. The town has some very good amenities, including the modern entertainment centre, the Hexagon.
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