... It's great for kids and reasonably priced for activities and houses (although some are really ugly). The walks are fantastic when you have a dog. A great little town with lots to do.
L Southan

Property types vary greatly from tremendous character filled cottages to awful modern boxes. Prices are, frankly, ridiculous.

Local planners have always put kickbacks before the town and so the traffic is appalling and the beautiful green open spaces are fast disappearing under the developer's profit.

Property types vary greatly from tremendous character filled cottages to awful modern boxes. Prices are, frankly, ridiculous.
Local planners have always put kickbacks before the town and so the traffic is appalling and the beautiful green open spaces are fast disappearing under the developer's profit.

Wokingham really seems to be heading upmarket and upscale. There are some very good restaurants and shops; there is ease of access to London, Reading, the M4 and M3; and there is great countryside. The friendliness of everyone we've met has been outstanding. We are planning to fix up our house and move on but we now plan to stay in the Wokingham area.

... lots of beautiful trees and loads of wildlife including most species of wild birds. A good mixture of housing with prices of bungalows and houses ranging from 200k to over a million pounds. Only two miles from the centre of the pretty market town centre of Wokingham, Finchampstead is near the lovely California Country Park with its lake and abundant waterfowl.

Also nearby are Bearwood College with its lively Theatre, and Bearwood golf course. Close to the M4/ M3 and good rail and road links to the city and the South Coast the area takes a lot of beating as a place to live. Good facilities abound as do professional services.

The local population is made up of mainly professional, business and retired people and the district is quiet with little real trouble in the way of crime etc.

Pleasant countryside nearby, good pubs. Traffic terrible. No indoor tennis facilities, no good private squash club. Trains to London better from Twyford than Wokingham.

The town is not that good to shop in but is great for eating out and some of the pubs are ok. Easy access to the M4 and by train to London, Bracknell and Reading. Loads of snobs!!

Quite family oriented, with only a few really good pubs, although there is a good variety of restaurants offering Italian, Thai, Chinese and Indian cuisine plus the usual take-aways.

There are car parking problems if you decide to live in one of the numerous terrace houses in and around the town centre. On-street parking on the terrace streets is a problem, and spaces are a premium, the resident parking schemes do not help. A lot of the new flats built have parking provided.

One of the local supermarket stores is now open 24 hours. A lot of people who live here, commute on the M4. Plenty of local schools are available.

There is good access to nearby Reading (by train or road), which has lots more restaurants and pubs to choose from plus a large modern shopping mall.