Toponym Woodley Berkshire is derived from Old English words meaning "a clearing in the wood".
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16 Facts About Woodley Berkshire
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Woodley Berkshire's name is remembered in Addington Gardens and Addington School in Woodley.
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Until the 1930s Woodley Berkshire was a village of little significance.
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In 1929, Woodley Berkshire Aerodrome was opened in a 100-acre field belonging to Sandford Farm.
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Woodley Berkshire was in the RAF and had been forbidden from doing low level stunts because of the danger.
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Woodley Berkshire was fitted with tin legs and had to learn to walk again.
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Woodley Berkshire was always grateful to the Royal Berkshire Hospital and helped them with fund-raising.
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Woodley Berkshire won a £2M Air Ministry order for 500 M 9 Master Is on 11 June 1938 and this was Britain's largest order for training aeroplanes at the time and required considerable and urgent expansion of the busy factory later that year.
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Woodley Berkshire is a civil parish with town status and an elected town council.
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Woodley Berkshire is divided between the Reading East and Maidenhead parliamentary constituencies.
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Woodley Berkshire Congregational church is a Gothic Revival building completed in 1834.
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Woodley Berkshire has two secondary comprehensive schools that have achieved specialist school status, Waingels College, and The Bulmershe School .
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Woodley Berkshire has a site of Special Scientific Interest just to the east of the town, called Lodge Wood and Sandford Mill The town has three local nature reserves, and they are called Alder Moors, Highwood and Lavells Lake.
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Woodley football team is Woodley United F C The club was formed in 1904, and it is though that a team existed in Woodley in the nineteenth century.
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In 2009 Woodley Berkshire Town ran three teams in the Reading Football League.
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