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BERKS, or Berkshire, an inland county, within the basin of the Thames. It is bounded, on the N, by Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire; on the E, by Surrey; on the S, by Hertfordshire; and on the W, by Wiltshire. The county town is Reading; and the market towns are Reading, Abingdon, Faringdon, Newbury, Wantage, Wokingham, Maidenhead, East Ilsley, Lambourn, Hungerford, Wallingford, and Windsor.