Registration Districts in Berkshire

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS IN BERKSHIRE

The list below shows the civil registration districts in Berkshire since 1837. The same districts were used to compile the census returns for the years 1851 to 1921.

For the purposes of these pages, "Berkshire" refers to:

the ancient county of Berkshire (1837–89)
the administrative county of Berks (1889–1974), with the county borough of Reading.
the non-metropolitan county of Berkshire (1974–98)
the unitary authorities of Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor & Maidenhead and Wokingham (all from 1998).

Click on a district name in the table below to see the places and dates covered, or see the Index of Place Names for the whole of England and Wales.

Registration District	Registration County	From	To	Comments
Abingdon	Berkshire	1837	1974	Transferred to Oxfordshire on 1.4.1974.
Basingstoke	Hampshire	1837	1878	Partly in Berkshire until 1.1.1879.
Bracknell	Berkshire	1974	1998	Created 1.4.1974 by renaming Easthampstead registration district. Abolished 1.4.1998 and added to Bracknell Forest and Windsor & Maidenhead registration districts.
Bracknell Forest	Berkshire	1998		Created 1.4.1998 out of Bracknell registration district.
Bradfield	Berkshire	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 and divided between Wokingham, Wallingford and Newbury registration districts.
Cookham	Berkshire	1837	1896	Renamed 1.4.1896 to become Maidenhead registration district.
Easthampstead	Berkshire	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to Windsor registration district.
Easthampstead	Berkshire	1967	1974	Created 1.4.1967 out of Windsor registration district. Renamed 1.4.1974 to become Bracknell registration district.
Faringdon	Berkshire	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 and divided between Wantage and Cirencester registration districts.
Henley	Oxfordshire	1837	1895	Partly in Berkshire until 1.6.1895.
Highworth	Wiltshire	1837	1881	Partly in Berkshire until 20.12.1881.
Hungerford	Berkshire	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to Newbury registration district.
Maidenhead	Berkshire	1896	1974	Created 1.4.1896 by renaming Cookham registration district. Abolished 1.4.1974 and added to Windsor & Maidenhead registration district.
Newbury	Berkshire	1837	1998	Abolished 1.4.1998 and added to West Berkshire registration district.
Oxford	Oxfordshire	1837	1889	Partly in Berkshire until 1.4.1889.
Reading	Berkshire	1837	1974	Abolished 1.4.1974 and added to Reading & Wokingham registration district.
Reading	Berkshire	1998		Created 1.4.1998 out of Reading & Wokingham registration district.
Reading & Wokingham	Berkshire	1974	1998	Created 1.4.1974 out of Wokingham, Reading and Wallingford registration districts. Abolished 1.4.1998 and divided between Wokingham, Reading and West Berkshire registration districts.
Slough	Berkshire	1974		Created 1.4.1974 out of Eton registration district.
Stow on the Wold	Gloucestershire	1837	1844	Partly in Berkshire until 20.10.1844.
Wallingford	Berkshire	1837	1974	Transferred to Oxfordshire on 1.4.1974.
Wantage	Berkshire	1837	1974	Transferred to Oxfordshire on 1.4.1974.
West Berkshire	Berkshire	1998		Created 1.4.1998 from Newbury and Reading & Wokingham registration districts.
Windsor	Berkshire	1837	1974	Abolished 1.4.1974 and added to Windsor & Maidenhead registration district.
Windsor & Maidenhead	Berkshire	1974		Created 1.4.1974 out of Maidenhead, Windsor and Eton registration districts.
Witney	Oxfordshire	1837	1844	Partly in Berkshire until 20.10.1844.
Wokingham	Berkshire	1837	1974	Abolished 1.4.1974 and added to Reading & Wokingham and Newbury registration districts.
Wokingham	Berkshire	1998		Created 1.4.1998 out of Reading & Wokingham registration district.

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