Thames Valley Park

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Thames Valley Park

Location within Reading
Facts and Statistics
Coordinates 51°27′41″N 0°55′52″W / 51.461451°N 0.931182°W / 51.461451; -0.931182
Website thamesvalleypark.co.uk
David Lloyd Health & Fitness Club.

Thames Valley Park is a high-tech business park adjacent to the River Thames on the eastern outskirts of Reading in the English county of Berkshire.

Location and companies

The park partially lies within the civil parish of Sonning. Close by are the Ali's Pond Local Nature Reserve, laid out with paths and large ponds, and Sonning Hill.

Companies based at Thames Valley Park include Steria, SGI, Regus, BG Group, Websense, Oracle, Microsoft, and ING Direct.[1]

Transport links

The site is at the Northern terminus of the A3290 (formerly part of the now shortened A329(M)) giving good connections to the M4 and A4. Originally the A329(M) was supposed to follow the river West from Thames Valley Park towards a final junction with Vastern Road.[2]

There is also a free bus service between Thames Valley Park and Reading railway station[3] which in turn has good transport connections for London and Heathrow Airport.

A railway station to serve Thames Valley Park was proposed in the 1998 Reading Borough Local Plan.[4] It would occupy the site of the former coal sidings of the closed Earley power station. As at April 2013, the station had not been built.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Companies". Thames Valley Business Park. Retrieved 21 April 2012. 
  2. ↑ "AA map showing A329(M) extension". Retrieved 2007-07-17. 
  3. ↑ "Reading Station and Town Centre to Thames Valley Park". Retrieved 2007-07-17. 
  4. ↑ http://ww2.reading.gov.uk/documents/servingyou/planning/borough_plan/bp_appendix8.pdf

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