Holybrook

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{{infobox UK place|

|country = England

|type = Civil parish

|official_name = Holybrook

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|population= 6919

|population_ref=(2011 census){{Cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |title=Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005 |access-date=7 December 2014 |archive-date=11 February 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030211201309/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |url-status=dead }}

|area_total_km2=1.94

|civil_parish = Holybrook

|unitary_england = West Berkshire

|lieutenancy_england = Berkshire

|post_town = Reading

|postcode_area = RG

|postcode_district = RG31

|region = South East England

|constituency_westminster = Reading West and Mid Berkshire

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Holybrook is a civil parish, forming a contiguous part of Reading in West Berkshire and is a mixture of urban, suburban land with watercourses and flood meadows in Berkshire, England. The parish takes its name from the Holy Brook, a watercourse which forms its southern boundary and which is a corollary of the River Kennet. Its main settlements are part of Calcot those commonly known as Beansheaf Farm and Fords Farm, Holybrook and occasionally considered part of Calcot or Southcote which overlaps with this area.

Geography and history

Historically, since before the Norman Conquest, this was part of the parish of Reading, when its Southcot or Southcote part was a well-dispersed settlement.{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43216 |title=The hundred of Reading: Introduction and map |editor1=P.H. Ditchfield |editor2=William Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1923 |work=A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3 |access-date=7 December 2014 }} Holybrook is composed of two suburbs of Reading: Beansheaf Farm and Fords Farm, together with that part of the older suburb of Calcot that lies south of the A4 Bath Road. The church of St Michael in this area was built in 1967, one of only a small minority built to serve a new parish in that decade.[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/reading-st-matthew/ St Matthew, Reading] The Church of England.

The civil parish dates from 2000 when it was created from the part of Theale east of the M4 motorway.

Demography

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+ 2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005
Output area||Homes owned outright||Owned with a loan||Socially rented||Privately rented||Other||km2 roads||km2 water||km2 domestic gardens||Usual residents ||km2
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|Civil parish

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Governance

The parish has an elected parish council, and falls within the area of the unitary authority of West Berkshire. The parish council and the unitary authority are responsible for different aspects of local government. The parish is in the Reading West and Mid Berkshire parliamentary constituency.{{cite web|title=Location of Reading West and Mid Berkshire |url= https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/4254/location |website=parliament.uk |date=July 2024 |access-date=12 June 2025}}

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