Sonning
Sonning is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, on the River Thames, east of Reading. The village was described by Jerome K. Jerome in his book Three Men in a Boat as "the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river".
- Type: Village with 1,630 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham in the English county of Berkshire
- Also known as: “Sonning-on-Thames”, “Sonning, Berkshire”, and “桑寧”
Places of Interest
Highlights: St Andrew’s Church, Sonning and Bull Inn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sonning Eye and Charvil.
Sonning
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Sonning, Wokingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.47359° or 51° 28′ 25″ north
Longitude
-0.90991° or 0° 54′ 36″ west
Population
1,630
Elevation
141 feet (43 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB SQN
Open location code
9C3XF3FR+C2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sonning” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سنينغ”
- Basque: “Sonning”
- Bengali: “সোনিং”
- Bulgarian: “Сонинг”
- Catalan: “Sonning”
- Cebuano: “Sonning”
- Chinese: “桑宁”
- Chinese: “頌寧”
- Chinese: “颂宁”
- Dutch: “Sonning”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سنينج”
- French: “Sonning”
- German: “Sonning”
- Gujarati: “સોનિંગ”
- Irish: “Sonning”
- Italian: “Sonning”
- Japanese: “ソニング”
- Kannada: “ಸೋನಿಂಗ್”
- Korean: “소닝”
- Kurdish: “Sonning”
- Ladin: “Sonning”
- Latin: “Sonning”
- Lithuanian: “Soningas”
- Macedonian: “Сонинг”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sonning”
- Persian: “سانینگ”
- Polish: “Sonning”
- Portuguese: “Sonning”
- Russian: “Соннинг”
- Slovenian: “Sonning, Berkshire, Anglija”
- South Azerbaijani: “سانینق”
- Spanish: “Sonning”
- Swedish: “Sonning”
- Tamil: “சொன்னிங்”
- Telugu: “సోన్నింగ్”
- Turkish: “Sonning”
- Urdu: “سوننینج”
- Welsh: “Sonning”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Sonning Reach and The Oracle Lakes.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Pearson Hall and Saint Andrew’s Church.
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