Boundary changes affecting the English county of Berkshire.
Date Legislation Effect Historic county 20 October 1844 Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 Great Barrington (part) transferred to Gloucestershire Little Faringdon transferred to Oxfordshire Shilton (part) transferred to Oxfordshire Oxenwood transferred to Wiltshire but erroneously listed as exclave, so transfer cancelledGrose, D: The Flora of Wiltshire 1957 p. 58 Inglesham (part) transferred to Wiltshire Hurst (part) transferred from Wiltshire Shinfield (part) transferred from Wiltshire Wokingham (part) transferred from Wiltshire Administrative county 1889 Local Government Act 1888 Grandpont and New Hinksey transferred to Oxfordshire 1895 Local Government Act 1894 Combe transferred from Hampshire Shalbourne (part) transferred to Wiltshire, including OxenwoodVictoria County History of Berkshire 9 November 1911 Local Government Board Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 11) Act 1911 Caversham transferred from Oxfordshire Non-metropolitan county 1 April 1974 Local Government Act 1972 Abingdon, Didcot, Wallingford, Wantage and environs transferred to Oxfordshire (see list of places below) Burnham (part), Datchet, Eton, Horton, Slough, Wexham (part) and Wraysbury transferred from Buckinghamshire See list of places transferred. 1 April 1977 Mapledurham (part), Emmer Green (part), Caversham Park Village and Micklands Estate transferred from Oxfordshire 1 April 1990 The Berkshire, Dorset and Wiltshire (County Boundaries) Order 1989 Parts of Hungerford and Lambourne (50,112 hectares) exchanged with Wiltshire 1 April 1991 The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1991 Exchanges with Oxfordshire (16 hectares) Exchanges with Buckinghamshire (32 hectares) Exchanges with Surrey (217 hectares) Exchanges with Hampshire (70 hectares) 1 April 1995 The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1994Colnbrook transferred from Buckinghamshire Poyle transferred from Surrey
List of places transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire in 1974
Abingdon Appleford-on-Thames Appleton Ardington Ardington Wick Ashbury Aston Tirrold Aston Upthorpe Bablock Hythe Badbury Hill Bagley Wood Baulking Bayworth Belmont Besselsleigh Blewbury Boars Hill Botley Bourton, Vale of White Horse Bow Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Buckland Caldecott Chain Hill Charney Bassett Childrey Chilswell Chilton Cholsey Compton Beauchamp Coscote Cothill Cumnor Cumnor Hill Cumnor Hurst Dean Court Denchworth Didcot Dragon Hill, Uffington Drayton, Vale of White Horse Dry Sandford Duxford East Hagbourne East Hanney East Hendred East Lockinge Eaton Eaton Hastings Faringdon Farmoor Fernham Frilford Fulscot Fyfield, Oxfordshire Gainfield Garford Great Coxwell Grove Harcourt Hill Harwell Hatford Hinksey Hinksey Hill Hinton Waldrist Kennington Kingston Bagpuize Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor Kingston Lisle Letcombe Bassett Letcombe Regis Little Coxwell Little Wittenham Littleworth Lockinge Long Wittenham Longcot Longworth Lyford Marcham Moulsford North Hinksey Pusey Radley St. Helen Without Seacourt Shellingford Shippon Shrivenham Sotwell South Hinksey South Moreton Southmoor Stanford in the Vale Sunningwell Sutton Courtenay Swinford Tubney Uffington Upton Wallingford Wantage Watchfield West Hagbourne West Hanney West Hendred West Lockinge White Horse Hill Winterbrook Wittenham Clumps Woolstone Wootton, Vale of White Horse Wytham
See also
List of boundary changes in South East England History of Berkshire
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