* The Warren, Bracknell Forest, a suburb of Bracknell in Berkshire

Bracknell Forest is one of six unitary authorities within Berkshire in southern England.

Bracknell Forest was formed on 1 April 1974, as the non-metropolitan district of Bracknell.

On 1 April 1998, Berkshire County Council was abolished, as a consequence of the Banham Review, and Bracknell Forest Borough Council became a unitary authority.

From 2008, references to ' borough ' were phased out in favour of simply Bracknell Forest Council.

Since 1973, Bracknell Forest has been twinned with Opladen in Germany, continued by Leverkusen after Opladen's incorporation in 1975.

Bracknell Forest Borough Council's offices at Time Square in Market Street were featured in an episode of Road Wars on 4 February 2010 when a pursuit ended in the carpark.

Two rivers run through Bracknell Forest: the River Blackwater forms the borough ’ s southern boundary, and the Cut meanders through the northern parishes.

Nine sites in Bracknell Forest are designated as Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ), comprising 1911. 5 hectares or 17. 48 % of the Borough ’ s total area.

The Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area ( SPA ), 1356 hectares of which lie within Bracknell Forest ( Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths SSSI and the Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths SSSI ), supports nationally important populations of Dartford Warbler, Nightjar and Woodlark, all of which are Annex I species of the Birds Directive, and a small breeding population of Hobby, an important migratory species in a European context.

Bracknell Forest is generally affluent ( ranked 291 out of 326 on the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010, Rank of Average Score ) with significantly lower than average unemployment levels.

There are many distinctive local geographical communities within Bracknell Forest, from Sandhurst and Crowthorne in the south, the semi-rural communities of Binfield, Winkfield and Warfield in the north and the former new town of Bracknell in the centre, which contains most of the Borough ’ s commercial and industrial areas.

The software development and computer services side of the industry also thrives in Bracknell Forest and includes companies like Cable and Wireless, Honeywell, Avnet, Novell, and RSA Security.

Pharmaceutical and engineering companies also draw together in Bracknell Forest, these include Boehringer Ingelheim, Syngenta, Minebea, Daler-Rowney and Hyundai Heavy Industries.

There is no forest called ' Bracknell Forest '.

This name is often confused with Swinley Forest ( or Woods ), which is an area of the Windsor Estate between Bracknell and Bagshot.

* Bracknell Forest Council

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Gielgud's performance is preserved on an audio recording dating from 1952, which also captures Edith Evans's legendary embodiment of Lady Bracknell.

Arriving in pursuit of her daughter, Lady Bracknell is astonished to be told that Algernon and Cecily are engaged.

The size of Cecily ’ s trust fund soon dispels her initial doubts over the young lady ’ s suitability, but any engagement is forbidden by her guardian Jack: he will consent only if Lady Bracknell agrees to his own union with Gwendolen — something she declines to do.

The impasse is broken by the return of Miss Prism, whom Lady Bracknell recognises as the person who, twenty-eight years earlier, as a family nursemaid, had taken a baby boy for a walk in a perambulator ( baby carriage ) and never returned.

Jack produces the very same handbag, showing that he is the lost baby, the elder son of Lady Bracknell ’ s late sister, and thus indeed Algernon ’ s elder brother.

Bracknell is also home to the central Waitrose distribution centre and head office which is on a 70-acre ( 280, 000 m2 ) site on the Southern Industrial Estate.

The site of the Bracknell factory and development centre ( later sold to British Aerospace ) is commemorated by a 4. 5 metre aluminium sculpture by Philip Bentham, Sperry ’ s New Symbolic Gyroscope ( 1967 ).

In Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest there is an exchange between Jack Worthing and Lady Bracknell about his suitability as a match for her daughter Gwendolen.

This is an ironical re-reading of the passage which suggests Lady Bracknell agreed with the Marxist Social Democratic Federation and their leader Henry Hyndman who thought the same about the two main British parties then.

Bracknell in Berkshire, to the south-west of London, was designated a New Town in 1949 and is still expanding.

Bracknell in Berkshire, was designated a new town in 1949 and is still expanding.

It is about east-southeast of Reading and west of Bracknell.

It is in the south eastern corner of the ceremonial Royal County of Berkshire, within the Borough of Bracknell Forest, and is situated south west of central London, north west of Camberley and south of Bracknell.

This is the closest sizeable town, though Sandhurst is also only south of the new town of Bracknell.

Many names and ideas in the play were borrowed from people or places the author had known ; Lady Queensberry, Lord Alfred Douglas ' mother, for example, lived at Bracknell.

As the happy couples embrace — Jack and Gwendolen, Algernon and Cecily, and even Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism — Lady Bracknell complains to her newfound relative: “ My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality .” “ On the contrary, Aunt Augusta ”, he replies, “ I ’ ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of being Earnest .”

The formidable pronouncements of Lady Bracknell are as startling for her use of hyperbole and rhetorical extravagance as much as the disconcerting opinions therein.

* VME / K ( originally System T ), targeted at the mid-range systems such as the 2960 and developed at Bracknell after the original design for these small processors, System D, was dropped.

After the War he attended the RAF Staff College, Bracknell and then became Officer Commanding No. 74 Squadron before taking command of the Air Fighting Development Squadron in 1949 and then taking over responsibility for Flying at the Central Flying Establishment in 1951.

Evans was particularly well known for portraying haughty aristocratic ladies, as in two of her most famous roles: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest ( both on stage and in the 1952 film ), and Miss Western in the 1963 film of Tom Jones.

Other performances which many considered definitive were as Millamant in The Way of the World ( 1924 ), Rosalind in As You Like It ( 1926 and 1936 ), the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet ( 1932 – 35 and 1961 ), and, most notably, as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939 ), a role with which she became identified in the public's mind ( in particular for her drippingly sarcastic delivery of the line: " A handbag ?").

The same could be said for Sandhurst which is home of " The Meadows " retail park and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, all of which are in the Bracknell Forest borough of Berkshire.

The new town was planned for 25, 000 people ; it was intended to occupy over 1, 000 hectares ( about 6 square miles ) of land in and around ' Old Bracknell ' in the area now occupied by Priestwood, Easthampstead, Bullbrook and Harman's Water.

Bracknell is given the name ' Laxton ' in the TV detective series Pie in the Sky and Waterside Park was used for the exterior of the police HQ in the same series.

Andrew James MacKay ( born 27 August 1949, Birmingham ) is a British Conservative Party politician, and was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bracknell, Berkshire from 1997 to 2010.

On 14 May 2009, her husband Andrew MacKay, the Conservative Member for Bracknell, resigned from his position as parliamentary aide to David Cameron, in the wake of the furore over Parliamentary expenses after what was described as an " unacceptable " expenses claim.

In a case of so-called double-dipping, according to The Daily Telegraph, Mackay had used his Additional Costs Allowance to claim more than £ 1, 000 a month in mortgage interest payments on their joint Westminster house – even though he did not have a residence in his Bracknell constituency – while Kirkbride used her Additional Costs Allowance to claim over £ 900 a month to pay the mortgage for their family home in her constituency.

In August 1997, she married Andrew MacKay MP, the Conservative Member for Bracknell, and they have a son ( born October 2000 ).

ICL and its customers often referred to these locations by the Site Code, especially where multiple sites may exist in a town, with for instance with the Putney Headquarters being LON11 ( London 11 ), the training college at Beaumont being WSR01 ( Windsor 01 ) and the southern System Support Centre ( SCC ) at Bracknell being BRA05 ( Bracknell 05 ).

: For the suburb of Bracknell in the UK, see Lawrence Hill, Bracknell Forest, for the inner city area of Bristol, UK see Lawrence Hill, Bristol.

David Osborn has joined the parish after working in Bracknell for a number of years.

* Andrew MacKay, Former Conservative MP for Bracknell

She then toured round Ireland performing the role of Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, before returning to England, and beginning to write new songs for the 25th anniversary of Fascinating Aida, which performed for a few weeks at the Jermyn Street Theatre.