Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Geography
Status:	Unitary, Royal Borough
Region:	South East England
Ceremonial County:	Berkshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 167th 198.43 km²
Admin. HQ:	Maidenhead
ONS code:	00ME
Demographics
Population: - Total (2008 est.) - Density	Ranked 130th 142,800 727 / km²
Ethnicity:[1]	90.2% White 5.4% S.Asian 1.2% Black 1.7% Mixed Race 1.4% Chinese or Other
Politics
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Adam Afriyie, Theresa May

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is a Royal Borough of Berkshire, in South East England. It became a unitary authority on 1 April 1998.

It is home to Windsor Castle, Eton College, Legoland and Ascot Racecourse.

The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 as a non-metropolitan district of Berkshire, under the Local Government Act 1972, from parts of the former administrative counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. From Berkshire came the boroughs of Maidenhead and Windsor, and the rural districts of Cookham and Windsor, and from Buckinghamshire came the Eton urban district, and the parishes of Datchet, Horton and Wraysbury from the rural district of Eton.^[2] It inherited royal borough status from Windsor, the site of Windsor Castle.

It gained unitary authority status in 1998 with the abolition of Berkshire County Council.^[3]

Towns and villages

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead contains the following towns and villages

• Ascot
• Bray
• Clewer
• Cookham
• Datchet
• Eton
• Eton Wick
• Horton
• Maidenhead
• North Ascot (part)
• Old Windsor
• South Ascot
• Sunningdale
• Sunninghill
• Waltham St. Lawrence
• White Waltham
• Windsor
• Wraysbury

Twin towns

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is twinned with the following Towns:

• Neuilly-sur-Seine, France - established 1955 with Royal Borough of New Windsor.
• Saint-Cloud, France - established 1957 with Maidenhead.
• Bad Godesberg, Germany - established 1960 with Maidenhead.
• Goslar, Germany - established 1969 with Royal Borough of New Windsor.
• Frascati, Italy - established 1972 with Maidenhead.
• Kortrijk, Belgium - established 1981 with Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.

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Coordinates: 51°28′N 0°40′W / 51.467°N 0.667°W / 51.467; -0.667