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Moving to Reading?

Best known these days for its enormous music festivals, and immortalised in Oscar Wilde’s poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Reading has always been overshadowed by its prettier and more luminous neighbour, Oxford. In fact it has been around for nearly as long; less glamorous, perhaps, but still an important reflection of the development of England.

Reading was founded in the 8th century at the confluence of the River Thames and the River Kennet. Its lush countryside made it attractive to invaders and it was overrun by the Danes in 870. The First Battle of Reading took place in 871 when King Ethelred and his brother Alfred the Great tried unsuccessfully to wrest back control. In 1121 Henry II founded Reading Abbey, which established the town as a pilgrimage destination. The abbots and the Merchant Guild disputed control of the town, and in particularly its taxes, for the next few centuries: a worthy bone of contention, as by 1525 this was the tenth richest town in England. The Dissolution of the Monasteries saw the partial destruction of the abbey, which left the tradesmen free to increase their wealth, the main source of which was the cloth trade. During the Civil War, Reading changed hands several times. In 1642 a Royalist garrison was imposed; the subsequent siege by the Roundheads was too late to save the cloth trade from the crippling effects of the Royalist tax.

Fortunes were revitalised in the eighteenth century by the brewing trade for which the town would become famous. A large iron works was also built. Reading grew as a manufacturing centre and was soon renowned for “the three Bs” – beer, bulbs (Suttons Seeds was based here) and biscuits (Huntley and Palmers operated from the town). There was also a famous Reading Sauce, similar to Worcestershire Sauce. This was very popular in the nineteenth century but ultimately lost out to the famous Lea and Perrins brand. Modern Reading has a thriving services industry and continues to epitomise many British qualities: common sense, unassuming and practical.

Tourist attractions are fairly thin on the ground. The ruins of the old Abbey are very evocative and the former hospitium is beautiful. In summer, Shakespeare plays are performed in the grounds. Two other medieval churches deserve a visit: St Laurence’s, a Norman church built of flint, with a three tier tower; and St Giles’s, built in the thirteenth century but redesigned in 1872 by James Piers St Aubyn. It is the arts scene, however, that really makes the town stand out. Reading Festival has been going for nearly fifty years; originally conceived as a jazz event, it now hosts some of pop’s biggest names in a beer and burger fuelled mashup. At the opposite end of the spectrum, WOMAD is a world music festival set up in 1980 to bring alternative sounds to a bigger stage. The theatre thrives here too, with two excellent venues: Reading Film Theatre mainly shows independent films but does the odd stage performance; and the Hexagon is an intimate venue that hosts the top repertory companies.