The Corps of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Museum of Technology is home to displays on military and trade training chronicling the corps’ role...

The Kennet and Avon canal runs for 86 miles linking the Thames with the Bristol Channel. The Great Western Railway opened in 1841 taking away...

This park offers fishing and walks around a scenic lake, and great opportunities for wildlife watchers. It contains an area of heathland and an ancient...

This museum was founded by the University of Reading in 1951 and offers an insight into the lives of people who live and have lived...

The Cole Museum of Zoology contains some 3500 specimens of which about 400 are on display at any one time. The collection was mainly...

Dinton Pastures Country Park’s lakes, rivers, meadows and wooded areas span just over 335 acres of what was once part of the Great Forest of...

Housed in the Old Laundry (1881) of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, the Centre preserves and displays items of historical medical interest particularly those with a...

Founded in 1997, the heritage centre is focussed on the rich and interesting developments in medical science that have taken place not only in this...

Berkshire’s dynamic contribution to aviation history is graphically recaptured at the Woodley Museum. Run as a charitable trust, the museum is at the historic site...

The museum tells the story of Reading’s two rivers, the Thames and the Kennet and occupies two former industrial buildings. The centrepiece is Dunton’s gypsy...

Reading Museum is home to many collections devoted to the town’s ‘beer, biscuits and bulbs’ history. There’s a gallery featuring the influence of biscuit makers...

Most of the buildings that made up Reading Abbey, whose 30-acre site dominated the town from 1121 to its dissolution by Henry VIII in 1539,...

The Forbury Gardens, originally part of Reading Abbey, were laid out between 1856 and 1864. The gardens are dominated by the Maiwand Lion, an 1886...

For those interested in arts and culture, this centre should be your first stop when in the area. Opened in 1973, since that time,...

Go Ape! is a high forest adventure course consisting of rope bridges, trapezes and death slides. It covers about a mile 40ft up within...