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Burghfield
Village and civil parish in England

Burghfield

Burghfield is a village and large civil parish in West Berkshire, England, with a boundary with Reading.

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Burghfield can trace its history back to before the Domesday Book, and was once home to three manors: Burghfield Regis, Burghfield Abbas, and Sheffield. Since the 1980s the population of Burghfield has nearly doubled with the construction of housing estates, making it a dormitory for Reading, Newbury, Basingstoke and the M4 corridor.

How locals move

Getting around Burghfield the local way

  • Get aroundThe local authority has published a cycle map, which shows off-road and low-traffic routes around the town.

From Wikivoyage: Reading (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Richard Wheeler (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.