Geologically, Wokingham sits at the northern end of the Bagshot Formation, overlying London clay, suggesting a prehistorical origin as a marine estuary The courts of Windsor Forest were held at Wokingham and the town had the right to hold a market from 1219.
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Wokingham set out roads and plots making them available for rent.
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Northern Wokingham, centred on Ashridge, was, archaically, a detached part of Wiltshire.
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Wokingham was one of the boroughs left unreformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and was reformed subsequently in 1883.
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Wokingham has a town centre, with main residential areas radiating in all directions.
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A329 motorway, accessible from the east of town, connects Wokingham to Reading and the rest of the motorway network at junction 10 of the M4.
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The Wokingham junction is where the A329 ends and becomes the A322, for Bracknell and the M3.
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Wokingham's was well known to local Binfield man, Alexander Pope, who, during a storm, found himself stranded at the inn with his friends, Gay, Swift and Arbuthnot.
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Wokingham is the setting of Lars Iyer's 2019 novel Nietzsche and the Burbs.
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The character of Tom the chimney sweep in Charles Kingsley's classic childhood story The Water Babies was based on the life and times of a Wokingham boy called James Seaward, who was a boy sweep in Victorian times.
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