DID YOU KNOW?
- Reading Football Club was founded in 1871, the same year as the FA
Cup, and is the oldest football league club south of the River Trent
- Newbury Racecourse housed a prisoner-of-war camp during the First
World War
- The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's current coat of arms features
three acorn sprigs - one for each of the Middleton children, who were
born in Berkshire
The Little Book of Berkshire is an intriguing, fact-packed
compendium of places, people and events in the county, from its earliest
origins to the present day.
Here you can read about the important contributions Berkshire has made
to the history of the nation, and meet some of the great men and women -
the eccentrics and the scoundrels - with whom its history is littered.
Packaged in an easily readable 'dip-in' format, visitors and locals
alike will find something to amuse, surprise and entertain them in this
remarkably engaging little book.