West Berkshire

West Berkshire, unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Berkshire, southern England. The unitary authority, which occupies the southwestern third of the historic county, covers a large, mainly rural area centred on the town of Newbury, the administrative centre. West Berkshire extends westward from the district of Reading along both sides of the River Kennet and edges into the Berkshire Downs on the north and the Hampshire Downs on the south; the Downs are composed...