Editing Tilehurst (section)

== Governance ==
Tilehurst is divided between the [[civil parish]] of Tilehurst in the district of [[West Berkshire]]<ref name="ONS CP">{{cite web|title=Area: Tilehurst (CP)|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=7&r=1&i=1001&m=0&s=1343225782695&enc=1&areaSearchText=tilehurst&areaSearchType=16&extendedList=true&searchAreas=|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=25 July 2012}}</ref> and the [[electoral ward]]s of [[Tilehurst (Reading ward)|Tilehurst]]<ref name="ONS ward">{{cite web|title=Area: Tilehurst (Ward)|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=7&r=1&i=1001&m=0&s=1343225514336&enc=1&areaSearchText=tilehurst&areaSearchType=14&extendedList=false&searchAreas=|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=25 July 2012}}</ref> and [[Kentwood (Reading ward)|Kentwood]] (where [[Tilehurst railway station]] is located) in the borough of Reading.<ref name=wbwmap>{{cite web | url = http://www.westberks.gov.uk/media/pdf/n/j/04_d__Ward_Boundaries.pdf | title = Ward Boundaries effective from May 2003 | publisher = West Berkshire Council | access-date = 2007-09-26}}</ref> There are now four [[ecclesiastical parish]]es with Tilehurst in their names: Tilehurst St Catherine and Calcot St Birinus, Tilehurst [[St George]], Tilehurst [[St Mary Magdalen]] and [[Church of St Michael, Tilehurst|Tilehurst St Michael]] (the latter church being the original parish church).<ref name="BRO Parishes">{{cite web|title=Parish Register Guide: T|url=http://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/family-history/parish-register-guide/?letter=t#results|publisher=Berkshire Record Office|access-date=25 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Church of England Parish Map |url=https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=67bce0ed36dd4ee0af7a16bc079aa09a |access-date=7 November 2024}}</ref>

===Administrative history===
Tilehurst was an [[ancient parish]]. It historically included [[Theale]] to the south-west and also extended eastwards towards Reading as far as the Reading Union Workhouse (which later became [[Battle Hospital]]) on Oxford Road, and included [[Prospect Park, Reading|Prospect Park]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Boundary Map of Tilehurst Ancient Parish / Civil Parish |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10087326/boundary |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=7 November 2024}}</ref> Theale became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1832,<ref name="VCH" /> and a separate civil parish in 1894.<ref name=vob>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10087326 Vision of Britain website]</ref>

The eastern end of the parish of Tilehurst around the workhouse and Prospect Park was incorporated into the borough of Reading in September 1887.<ref>{{cite book |title=Reading Corporation Act 1887 |date=1887 |page=56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVUwAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA56 |access-date=6 November 2024}}</ref><ref name="Phillips 135">{{cite book|last=Phillips|first=Daphne|title=The story of Reading : including Caversham, Tilehurst, Calcot, Earley, and Woodley|year=1980|publisher=Countryside Books|location=Newbury, Berkshire|isbn=0-905392-07-8|page=135|edition=Reprinted.}}</ref> The civil parish boundary was adjusted to match the new borough boundary eighteen months later in March 1889, with the part of Tilehurst in the borough of Reading being transferred to the [[civil parish]] of [[Reading Minster|Reading St Mary]].<ref name=VoB>{{cite web |title=Tilehurst Ancient Parish / Civil Parish |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10087326 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=7 November 2024}}</ref> A much larger part of Tilehurst was transferred to the borough of Reading in 1911, including the main village around Tilehurst Triangle (then also known as Tilehurst Common) and Tilehurst's parish church of St Michael at Churchend. The civil parish of Tilehurst was reduced as part of the 1911 changes to just cover the then largely rural west of the old parish that was not incorporated into the borough of Reading.<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Government Board's Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 11) Act 1911 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Geo5/1-2/148/contents/enacted |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=7 November 2024}}</ref><ref name=VoB/>

Reading Borough Council proposed to the government that the increasingly urbanised Tilehurst civil parish (as well as [[Purley on Thames]] and the eastern part of Theale) should be transferred into the borough of Reading as part of the major [[Local Government Act 1972|local government reforms of 1974]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Boundaries: Reading plea |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search-newspapers |access-date=7 November 2024 |work=Reading Evening Post |date=6 June 1972 |page=4}}</ref> The government decided instead to leave Reading's boundaries unchanged from when they had last been reviewed in 1911, placing the Tilehurst civil parish in [[Newbury (district)|Newbury district]], which became West Berkshire in 1998.