Wokingham is a compact market town and civil parish in Berkshire, set between Reading and Bracknell on the edge of the London commuter belt. It retains a charming historic core of timber‑framed and Georgian buildings around the market place, with the River Loddon and nearby country parks providing attractive green space for walking and boating; the town’s roots as a market settlement go back several centuries.
Today Wokingham combines a lively local high street of independent shops, a community theatre and regular festivals and a well‑known summer carnival with strong commuter links via Wokingham railway station, making it popular with families and professionals. The area is generally seen as prosperous with good schools, easy access to surrounding business centres and plenty of countryside on the doorstep, such as Dinton Pastures and other local reserves.
Postcode districts covering Wokingham
Most populated places nearby
- Reading 7 miles
- Slough 12.4 miles
- Harrow 25 miles
- High Wycombe 15.7 miles
- Basingstoke 15.1 miles
- Woking 12.9 miles
- Bracknell 3.4 miles
- Guildford 16 miles
- Maidenhead 8.8 miles
- Hounslow 21.1 miles
- Aldershot 11.7 miles
- Farnborough 8.5 miles
Neighbouring places
- Chapel Green Built-up area 0.6 miles
- Wescott Ward 0.7 miles
- Wokingham Built-up area 0.7 miles
- Norreys Ward 0.7 miles
- Evendons Ward 1 mile
- Holme Green Built-up area 1.1 miles
- Emmbrook Ward 1.1 miles
- Gardeners Green Built-up area 1.3 miles
- Wokingham Without Parish 1.8 miles
- Barkham Parish 2.2 miles
- Binfield South & Jennett's Park Ward 2.3 miles
- Sindlesham Built-up area 2.4 miles
Example postcodes in Wokingham
RG40 1TZ, RG40 1RR, RG40 3JX, RG40 5AY, RG40 2HQ, RG40 1EL, RG40 1XD, RG41 4AZ, RG41 2YR … See all
Transport links
- London Heathrow Airport 16.8 miles
- London Gatwick Airport 33.2 miles
- Wokingham Railway Station 0.5 miles
- Winnersh Railway Station 2.4 miles
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Schools in Wokingham
- All Saints C of E Primary School Primary
- Emmbrook Infant School Primary
- Emmbrook Junior School Primary
- Evendons Primary School Primary
- High Close School Special
- Keep Hatch Primary School Primary
- St Crispin's School Secondary
- St Paul's C of E Junior School Primary
- St Teresa's Catholic Academy Primary
- The Emmbrook School Secondary
- The Hawthorns Primary School Primary
- The Holt School Secondary
- Walter Infant School Primary
- Wescott Infant School Primary
- Westende Junior School Primary
- Windmill Primary School and Nursery Primary
Local points of interest
- University of Reading University 5.3 miles
- Madejski Stadium Stadium 6.5 miles
- Ascot Racecourse Recreation 6.7 miles
- Sunninghill Park Estate 7.9 miles
- Sunningdale Park Estate 8.7 miles
- Crowsley Park Estate 9 miles
- Mortimer House Estate 9.1 miles
- Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Museum Museum 9.4 miles
- Medmenham Abbey Historic site 9.7 miles
- Mortimer Lodge Estate 9.8 miles
- Sulhampstead House Estate 10.1 miles
- Aldershot Military Museum Museum 10.2 miles