Reading
Reading is a large, historic town in Berkshire in the South East of England. It is one of the largest towns without city status in the United Kingdom with just under 235,000 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Paul Gillett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 163,000 residents
- Description: historic market town in Berkshire, England
- Also known as: “Reading, Berkshire” and “Reading, England”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Reading Railway Station and Reading Abbey.
Reading Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: John Fielding, CC BY 2.0.
Reading railway station is a major transport hub in the town of Reading in Berkshire, England, it is 36 miles west of London Paddington. It is sited on the northern edge of the town centre, near to the main retail and commercial areas and the River Thames.
Reading Abbey
Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reading Abbey is a large, ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It was founded by Henry I in 1121 "for the salvation of my soul, and the souls of King William, my father, and of King William, my brother, and Queen Maud, my wife, and all my ancestors and successors." In its heyday the abbey was one of Europe's largest royal monasteries.
Royal Berkshire Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Juan J. Martínez, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Royal Berkshire Hospital is an NHS hospital in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. It provides acute hospital services to the residents of the western and central portions of Berkshire, and is managed by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lower Earley and Caversham.
Lower Earley
Suburb
Photo: Rosalind Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lower Earley is a suburb of Earley, a town in Berkshire, England. Lower Earley is a predominantly lower-density residential area lying on the northern banks of the River Loddon. Lower Earley is situated 2½ miles southeast of Reading.
Caversham
Suburb
Photo: Jystyn, Public domain.
Reading is a large, historic town in Berkshire in the South East of England. It is one of the largest towns without city status in the United Kingdom with just under 235,000 inhabitants.
Woodley
Town
Photo: Mike McMillan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodley is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham, in Berkshire, England. Woodley is 4 miles east of Reading and adjoined to Earley which is 2 miles to the west of the town and Woodley is 5 miles from Wokingham. Woodley is situated 3 miles east of Reading.
Reading
- Categories: county town and locality
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.4564° or 51° 27′ 23″ northLongitude
-0.9701° or 0° 58′ 12″ westPopulation
163,000Elevation
167 feet (51 metres)IATA airport code
XREUnited Nations Location Code
GB RDNOpen location code
9C3XF24H+HXOpenStreetMap ID
node 14808039OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2639577Wikidata ID
Q161491
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Reading” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Reading”
- Arabic: “ريدنغ”
- Arabic: “ريدينغ”
- Aragonese: “Reading”
- Armenian: “Ռեդինգ”
- Asturian: “Reading”
- Azerbaijani: “Redinq”
- Azerbaijani: “Riding”
- Azerbaijani: “Ridinq”
- Basque: “Reading”
- Bavarian: “Reading”
- Belarusian: “Рэдынг”
- Bengali: “রেডিং”
- Breton: “Reading”
- Bulgarian: “Рединг”
- Catalan: “Reading”
- Cebuano: “Reading (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Reading)”
- Cebuano: “Reading”
- Chinese: “Reading”
- Chinese: “雷丁”
- Chuvash: “Рединг (Англи)”
- Chuvash: “Рединг”
- Czech: “Reading”
- Danish: “Reading”
- Dutch: “Reading”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ريدينج”
- Esperanto: “Reading”
- Esperanto: “Redingo”
- Estonian: “Reading”
- Finnish: “Reading”
- French: “Reading”
- Galician: “Reading, Inglaterra”
- Galician: “Reading”
- Georgian: “რედინგი (ინგლისი)”
- Georgian: “რედინგი”
- German: “Reading, Berkshire”
- German: “Reading”
- Greek: “Ρέντινγκ”
- Gujarati: “રીડિંગ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Reading, Berkshire”
- Hakka Chinese: “Reading”
- Hebrew: “רדינג”
- Hindi: “रेडिंग”
- Hungarian: “Reading”
- Iloko: “Reading”
- Indonesian: “Reading”
- Interlingue: “Reading”
- Irish: “Reading, Berkshire”
- Irish: “Reading”
- Italian: “Reading”
- Japanese: “バトル”
- Japanese: “レディング”
- Kannada: “ರೀಡಿಂಗ್”
- Kashmiri: “ریڈِنگ”
- Korean: “레딩”
- Kurdish: “Horncastle, Berkshire”
- Kurdish: “Reading”
- Ladin: “Reading”
- Latin: “Radinga”
- Latin: “Raedinga”
- Latvian: “Redinga”
- Literary Chinese: “雷丁”
- Lithuanian: “Reading”
- Lithuanian: “Redingas”
- Luxembourgish: “Reading”
- Macedonian: “Рединг”
- Malay: “Reading, Berkshire”
- Malay: “Reading”
- Malayalam: “Reading”
- Malayalam: “റീഡിംഗ്, ബെർക്ഷയർ”
- Malayalam: “റീഡിംഗ്”
- Marathi: “रेडिंग (बर्कशायर)”
- Marathi: “रेडिंग”
- Mesopotamian Arabic: “ريدنگ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Reading (Eng-lân)”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ريدينڭ”
- Narom: “Rédingue”
- Northern Frisian: “Reading”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Reading”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Reading i Berkshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Reading”
- Norwegian: “Reading”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rēadingas”
- Ossetian: “Рединг (Англис)”
- Ossetian: “Рединг”
- Persian: “ردینگ، انگلستان”
- Persian: “ریدینگ برکشایر”
- Persian: “ریدینگ، بارکشر”
- Piemontese: “Reading”
- Polish: “Reading”
- Portuguese: “Reading”
- Quechua: “Reading”
- Romanian: “Reading”
- Russian: “Рединг”
- Russian: “Ридинг”
- Russian: “Рэдинг”
- Scots: “Reading, Berkshire”
- Scots: “Reading”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Reading”
- Serbian: “Reading”
- Serbian: “Reding”
- Serbian: “Рединг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Reading, Berkshire”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Reading”
- Silesian: “Reading”
- Slovak: “Reading”
- Slovenian: “Reading”
- South Azerbaijani: “ردینق، اینگیلیس”
- Spanish: “Reading”
- Swahili: “Reading, Berkshire”
- Swahili: “Reading”
- Swedish: “Reading”
- Tajik: “Рединг”
- Tajik: “Ридинг”
- Tamil: “ரீடிங்”
- Tatar: “Редиң”
- Telugu: “రీడింగ్”
- Thai: “เรดิง”
- Turkish: “Reading, Berkshire”
- Turkish: “Reading”
- Ukrainian: “Редінг”
- Urdu: “ریڈنگ، بارکشائر”
- Veps: “Reding”
- Vietnamese: “Reading”
- Volapük: “Reading”
- Waray (Philippines): “Reading, Berkshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Reading”
- Welsh: “Reading”
- Western Panjabi: “ریڈنگ, برکشائر”
- Western Panjabi: “ریڈنگ”
- Wu Chinese: “雷丁”
- Yiddish: “רעדינג”
- Yue Chinese: “雷丁”
- “Reading”
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