Berkshire

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Berkshire is a historic county in South East England known for its royal connections, including Windsor Castle, and its mix of affluent towns and rural landscapes.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Berkshire canonical 589
Berkshire (before 1974) 1
Berkshire (historically, in some periods) 1

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ceremonial county of England
historic county of England
non-metropolitan county
abolishedCountyCouncilYear 1998
borderedBy Buckinghamshire
Hampshire
Oxfordshire
Surrey
Wiltshire
containsLandmark Ascot Racecourse
Eton College
Highclere Castle
Windsor Castle
containsMilitaryAcademy Royal Military College, Sandhurst
surface form: Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
containsProtectedArea North Wessex Downs
surface form: North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
containsRacecourse Ascot Racecourse
Newbury Racecourse
containsRiver River Kennet
Thames
surface form: River Thames
containsRoyalResidence Windsor Castle
containsSettlement Ascot
Bracknell
Crowthorne
Eton, Berkshire
surface form: Eton

Hungerford
Maidenhead
Newbury, Berkshire
surface form: Newbury

Reading
Sandhurst
Slough
Thatcham
Windsor
Wokingham
containsUniversity University of Reading
country England
grantedRoyalStatusBy Elizabeth II
surface form: Queen Elizabeth II
hasCountyTown Reading
hasLocalGovernmentStructure unitary authorities
hasStatus Royal county
historicalRegion Home Counties
Thames Valley
knownFor affluent towns
royal connections
rural landscapes
partOf South East England
royalStatusYear 1957
sovereignState United Kingdom
timeZone Greenwich Mean Time
timeZoneDST British Summer Time

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Drayton locatedInHistoricCounty Berkshire
Uffington historicCounty Berkshire
A308 road locatedIn Berkshire
A308 road connects Berkshire
Sunningdale ceremonialCounty Berkshire
Sunningdale lieutenancyArea Berkshire
Sunningdale historicCounty Berkshire
Twyford locatedIn Berkshire
Twyford ceremonialCounty Berkshire
Twyford lieutenancyArea Berkshire
Twyford historicCounty Berkshire
Shrivenham historicCounty Berkshire
River Loddon flowsThrough Berkshire
Letcombe Bassett historicCounty Berkshire
RDG locatedIn Berkshire
RDG servesCounty Berkshire
Colnbrook locatedIn Berkshire
Colnbrook ceremonialCounty Berkshire
Hungerford Town Hall locatedIn Berkshire
Hungerford Town Hall county Berkshire
Hungerford Common locatedIn Berkshire
Hocktide festival locatedIn Berkshire
Hocktide culturalRegion Berkshire
Hungerford massacre location Berkshire
A338 road locatedInCounty Berkshire
Elm Park county Berkshire
Cumberland Lodge locatedIn Berkshire
WANTAGE historicCounty Berkshire
subject surface form: Wantage
The Ridgeway passesThrough Berkshire
Carole Middleton residence Berkshire
Downe House School locatedIn Berkshire
Newbury bypass locatedIn Berkshire
Eton College Chapel locatedIn Berkshire
SL coversCounty Berkshire
subject surface form: SL postcode area
Eton town centre locatedIn Berkshire
Eton College rowing lake (Dorney Lake, nearby) locatedIn Berkshire
subject surface form: Eton College Rowing Lake
Leighton Park School locatedIn Berkshire