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Local Information for Bracknell

Bracknell is a town of about 50,000 people (1991) in Bracknell Forest borough, in the English county of Berkshire. It lies about 6 miles (10 kilometres) to the east of Reading. It is about 9 miles south west of Windsor, with Windsor Great Park in between. It is between the M3 and M4 motorways, and the town has two train stations (Bracknell and Martins Heron) on the Reading to London Waterloo line, operated by South West Trains. The town has four secondary schools, The Garth Hill Technology College, Ranelagh School (a Church of England school), Easthampstead Park and Brakenhale.

Bracknell is a former new town developed after the Second World War from a small market town. Very little of the original town was left. The location was chosen over White Waltham, an alternative possibility, because the Bracknell site avoided encroaching on good quality agricultural land. The town expanded beyond the intended size into farmland to the south. The town centre is a 1960s design, and in ...More