Editing Tilehurst (section)

== Notable residents ==
*[[Bryan Adams]], musician, lived in Tilehurst in the 1960s while his father was stationed in the [[United Kingdom]]<ref name="GR rough">{{cite news|title=The rough ( as in quirky facts that are probably true) guide to Reading.|url=http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/8223_the_rough__as_in_quirky_facts_that_are_probably_true_guide_to_reading|access-date=31 July 2012|newspaper=Reading Evening Post|date=7 November 2003}}</ref>
*[[Jacqueline Bisset]], actress, grew up in Tilehurst in a 17th-century country cottage, where she now lives part of the year{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
*[[Kenneth Branagh]], actor, attended Meadway School in the 1970s<ref name="TES Branagh">{{cite web|last=Frankel|first=Hannah|title=My best teacher – Kenneth Branagh|url=http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6011305|publisher=Times Educational Supplement|access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref>
*[[Tim Dinsdale]], searcher for the [[Loch Ness Monster]].<ref name=Times1967>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Loch Ness Hunt |work=The Times|location=London |date=22 July 1967 |page=2}}</ref>
*[[Mike Oldfield]], musician, grew up in Tilehurst<ref name="Maconie 113">{{cite book|last=Maconie|first=Stuart|title=Adventures on the high teas|year=2009|publisher=Ebury|location=London|isbn=978-0091926502|page=[https://archive.org/details/adventuresonhigh0000maco/page/133 133]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/adventuresonhigh0000maco/page/133}}</ref>
*[[Zac Purchase]], Olympic gold medal winning rower, lived on the Dee Road estate<ref>{{Cite web |last=getreading |date=2009-06-11 |title=Palace date for rower Zac Purchase |url=http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/other-sport/palace-date-rower-zac-purchase-4237575 |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=BerkshireLive |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Ayrton Senna]], [[Formula 1]] driver, lived on the Pottery Road estate in the 1980s<ref name="Ayrton Senna">{{cite news|last1=Cassell|first1=Paul|last2=Pyle|first2=Mike|title=Ayrton Senna a legend... but not in the garden|url=http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2095008_ayrton_senna_a_legend_but_not_in_the_garden|access-date=31 July 2012|newspaper=Reading Evening Post|date=23 June 2011}}</ref>
*Sir [[Peter Vanlore]] (1547–1627) bought Tilehurst [[Manor house|Manor]] and lived there with his wife Lady Jacoba van Loor (daughter of Henri Thibault).