The son of a naval officer, Ainsworth was educated at the Ludgrove School in Wokingham, Bradfield College, and Lincoln College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1979, with an MA in English Literature and Language.

Hasbro Europe still will not accept, however, that the range was released in the UK in 1984, not even with evidence such as Argos 1984 catalogues containing the range, the UK comic launching in September 1984 or even the 1984 Transformers product catalogue produced by " Hasbro Industries ( UK ) Ltd, Wokingham ".

Before 1844, the north of the parish of Wokingham was part of a detached portion, or exclave, of the county of Wiltshire, the border of which is some to the west.

Wokingham was a borough before the 1974 reorganisation of local government, when it merged with Wokingham Rural District to form the new Wokingham District.

From the 14th to the 16th centuries, Wokingham was well known for its bell foundry which supplied many churches across the South of England.

During the Tudor period, Wokingham was well known as a producer of silk.

Wokingham was once famous for its bull-baiting.

In the years 1643-44 Wokingham was regularly raided by both sides in the Civil War.

It was not until the early 18th century that Wokingham had fully recovered.

It was named after an infamous band of ruffians, known as the ' Wokingham Blacks ', who terrorised the local area until 29 of them were arrested after fighting a pitched battle with Grenadier Guards in Bracknell.

Northern Wokingham, centred on Ashridge, was, archaically, a detached part of Wiltshire.

The ancient parish was divided in 1894 into urban and rural civil parishes, Wokingham Without forming the latter.

In the 18th century, the Ballad of Molly Mogg was written in Wokingham.

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.

Seaward was elected Alderman of Wokingham from 1909 until his death in 1921.

The 1971 film Blind Terror, starring Mia Farrow and directed by Brian Clemens, was filmed largely in Wokingham.

In 2011, Hart district, of which Fleet is the main town, was voted the best place to live in the UK by the Halifax Quality of Life study, above areas such as Elmbridge in Surrey and Wokingham in Berkshire.

It was at Bracknell, in 1723, that a troop of mounted Grenadier Guards had a pitched battle with an infamous band of ruffians known as the Wokingham Blacks.

In early April 1689, William assented to a bill naturalizing George as an English subject, and George was created Duke of Cumberland, Earl of Kendal and Baron of Okingham ( Wokingham ) by the new monarchs.

The original Hospital was built by Lucas ’ s executors on 1. 5 acres ( 6, 000 m² ) of land in Wokingham in 1666.

In 2007 Halifax Estate Agents ranked the Borough of Wokingham as the number one place to live in the United Kingdom.

One of the Superman Films used the Phoenix Plaza bowling alley in Wokingham for one of its scenes.

The popular TV series The Vicar of Dibley used the Wokingham town hall as a set in one episode.

He designed one of the first neural pattern recognition systems, the WISARD ( marketed by CRS, Wokingham ) in the 1980s.

Wokingham locals recall her being one of the first woman drivers in the area.

The team at one point could field five sets of brothers, Daniel ( now at Wokingham Cricket Club ) and Oliver Reddyhough, David and John Reddyhough, Simon and Sam Smith ( now Gumley Cricket Club ), Charles and Robert Mathew and Shaun and Ashley Burbery.

The latter is one of four main secondary schools serving Wokingham and one of two schools in Wokingham with a specialism in Maths and Computing along with St Crispin's.

In the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885 Berkshire ( excluding Reading ) was divided into three parts, Northern ( Abingdon ), Southern ( Newbury ), and Eastern ( Wokingham ), returning one member each.

The campus is split about one third to Reading, two thirds to Wokingham.

Parts of the borough border neighbouring boroughs such as Wokingham Borough Council and the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead.

A 1909 Railway Clearing House map showing ( left ) lines in the vicinity of Wokingham

In the 21st Century, traditional Wokingham accents are becoming rare, particularly amongst young people, who are increasingly influenced by the spread of Multicultural London English.

A successor parish continued in existence in Wokingham and is governed by Wokingham Town Council.

Most local bus services are provided by First Group but the Sunday and bank holiday services from Wokingham to Reading are operated by Courtney Coaches.

Wokingham is served by four state secondary schools.

** Reading / Wokingham Urban Area, area defined by UK Office for National Statistics

Wokingham can be reached by bus on the Wokingham Road or by train from Earley or Winnersh Triangle stations.

The following schools all have children from Earley and Lower Earley within their designated catchment areas as defined by Wokingham Borough Council.

Clyde was educated at two independent schools: at Ludgrove School in the civil parish of Wokingham Without, adjoining the market town of Wokingham in the English county of Berkshire, and at Eton College in the small town of Eton, near Windsor ( also in Berkshire ), followed by the University of Grenoble in France.

* St Crispin's School, Wokingham, Berkshire, England, designed by the Ministry of Education.

Most camps were by the seaside but some, like California in England near Wokingham, Berkshire were beside a lake and catered for a modest 300 guests.

It is a rural parish, mostly consisting of dairy farmland and woods, despite being surrounded by the town of Wokingham and the large villages of Winnersh, Arborfield Cross and Finchampstead.