Crowthorne

This article is about the village in Berkshire, England. For the suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, see Crowthorne, Gauteng.

Crowthorne
The shops in Duke's Ride near Crowthorne Station
Crowthorne is located in Berkshire
Crowthorne
Crowthorne
Location within Berkshire
Population7,806 (2021 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSU841641
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCROWTHORNE
Postcode districtRG45
Dialling code01344
PoliceThames Valley
FireRoyal Berkshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Berkshire
51°22′12″N 0°47′31″W / 51.370°N 0.792°W / 51.370; -0.792

Crowthorne is a village and civil parish in the Bracknell Forest district of southeastern Berkshire, England.[3] It had a population of 7,806 at the 2021 census.[1]

Crowthorne is the location of Wellington College, a large co-educational boarding and day independent school, which opened in 1859, and of Broadmoor Hospital, one of England's three maximum-security psychiatric hospitals, which lies on the eastern edge of the village.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Crowthorne (Parish, United Kingdom) with population statistics, charts, map and location". City Population. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Crowthorne Parish Council". Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Town and parish councils". Bracknell Forest Council. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  4. ^ Ford, David Nash (2020). East Berkshire Town and Village Histories. Wokingham: Nash Ford Publishing. pp. 99–103. ISBN 9781905191017.