Mrs Redboots wrote:
Neil Williams wrote to uk.transport.london on Sat, 22 Jan 2005:
"Stimpy" wrote:

I did a quick test of this in the pub at lunchtime. I asked 6 people which
county Reading was in and they all said Berkshire

I'd have said that, too. Where do people normally think it is
located?

I know, I was wondering that, as I, too, would have said it was in
Berkshire.

Indeed it was, so the six people and you were right. But now Berkshire's
no longer a single county - West Berkshire is, but the eastern half
(starting with Reading) has been broken into several entities.

Mind you, I was born in Abingdon, Berkshire, and these days it's in
Oxfordshire, so these things do move.

And until tomorrow* I hadn't noticed that Caversham's no longer in
Oxfordshire.

* Assuming you're reading this before your timezone catches up...