List of Berkshire boundary changes

Boundary changes affecting the English county of Berkshire.

Date	Legislation	Effect
Historic county
20 October 1844	Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844	Great Barrington (part) transferred to Gloucestershire Little Faringdon transferred to Oxfordshire Shilton (part) transferred to Oxfordshire Oxenwood transferred to Wiltshire but erroneously listed as exclave, so transfer cancelled[1] Inglesham (part) transferred to Wiltshire Hurst (part) transferred from Wiltshire Shinfield (part) transferred from Wiltshire Wokingham (part) transferred from Wiltshire
Administrative county
1889	Local Government Act 1888	Grandpont and New Hinksey transferred to Oxfordshire[2]
1895	Local Government Act 1894	Combe transferred from Hampshire[3] Shalbourne (part) transferred to Wiltshire, including Oxenwood[4]
9 November 1911	Local Government Board Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 11) Act 1911	Caversham transferred from Oxfordshire
Non-metropolitan county
1 April 1974	Local Government Act 1972	Abingdon, Didcot, Wallingford, Wantage and environs transferred to Oxfordshire (see list of places below) Burnham (part)^[note a], Datchet, Eton, Horton, Slough, Wexham (part)^[note a] and Wraysbury transferred from Buckinghamshire[5] See list of places transferred.
1 April 1977		Mapledurham (part), Emmer Green (part), Caversham Park Village and Micklands Estate transferred from Oxfordshire
1 April 1990	The Berkshire, Dorset and Wiltshire (County Boundaries) Order 1989	Parts of Hungerford and Lambourne (50,112 hectares) exchanged with Wiltshire[6]
1 April 1991	The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1991	Exchanges with Oxfordshire (16 hectares)[7] Exchanges with Buckinghamshire (32 hectares)[7] Exchanges with Surrey (217 hectares)[7] Exchanges with Hampshire (70 hectares)[7]
1 April 1995	The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1994	Colnbrook transferred from Buckinghamshire[8] Poyle transferred from Surrey[8]

List of places transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire in 1974

• Abingdon
• Appleford-on-Thames
• Appleton
• Ardington
• Ardington Wick
• Ashbury
• Aston Tirrold
• Aston Upthorpe
• Bablock Hythe
• Badbury Hill
• Bagley Wood
• Baulking
• Bayworth
• Belmont
• Besselsleigh
• Blewbury
• Boars Hill
• Botley
• Bourton, Vale of White Horse
• Bow
• Brightwell-cum-Sotwell
• Buckland
• Caldecott
• Chain Hill
• Charney Bassett
• Childrey
• Chilswell
• Chilton
• Cholsey
• Compton Beauchamp
• Coscote
• Cothill
• Cumnor
• Cumnor Hill
• Cumnor Hurst
• Dean Court
• Denchworth
• Didcot
• Dragon Hill, Uffington
• Drayton, Vale of White Horse
• Dry Sandford
• Duxford
• East Hagbourne
• East Hanney
• East Hendred
• East Lockinge
• Eaton
• Eaton Hastings
• Faringdon
• Farmoor
• Fernham
• Frilford
• Fulscot
• Fyfield, Oxfordshire
• Gainfield
• Garford
• Great Coxwell
• Grove
• Harcourt Hill
• Harwell
• Hatford
• Hinksey
• Hinksey Hill
• Hinton Waldrist
• Kennington
• Kingston Bagpuize
• Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor
• Kingston Lisle
• Letcombe Bassett
• Letcombe Regis
• Little Coxwell
• Little Wittenham
• Littleworth
• Lockinge
• Long Wittenham
• Longcot
• Longworth
• Lyford
• Marcham
• Moulsford
• North Hinksey
• Pusey
• Radley
• St. Helen Without
• Seacourt
• Shellingford
• Shippon
• Shrivenham
• Sotwell
• South Hinksey
• South Moreton
• Southmoor
• Stanford in the Vale
• Sunningwell
• Sutton Courtenay
• Swinford
• Tubney
• Uffington
• Upton
• Wallingford
• Wantage
• Watchfield
• West Hagbourne
• West Hanney
• West Hendred
• West Lockinge
• White Horse Hill
• Winterbrook
• Wittenham Clumps
• Woolstone
• Wootton, Vale of White Horse
• Wytham

Notes

• Note a: ^ ^ The part of the parish of Wexham transferred to Berkshire was formed into a new parish of Wexham Court. The Britwell ward of Burnham parish was transferred to Berkshire to become the new parish of Britwell.[9]

See also

• List of boundary changes in South East England
• History of Berkshire

References

1. Grose, D: The Flora of Wiltshire 1957 p. 58
2. Eleanor Chance; Christina Colvin; Janet Cooper; C.J. Day; T.G. Hassall; Nesta Selwyn (1979). Crossley, Alan; Elrington, C.R. (eds.). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 4. Victoria County History. pp. 260–264.
3. Vision of Britain website
4. Victoria County History of Berkshire
5. Arnold-Baker, C. (1973). Local Government Act 1972. Butterworths.
6. "The Berkshire, Dorset and Wiltshire (County Boundaries) Order 1989". HMSO. 1989.
7. "The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1991". HMSO. 1991.
8. "The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1994". HMSO. 1994. Archived from the original on 2 February 2009.
9. Local government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System. London: HMSO. 1974. p. 170. ISBN 0-11-750847-0.