Sonning
Sign in to saveSonning (traditional: ; modern: ) is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, on the River Thames, east of Reading. The village was described by Jerome K. Jerome in his book Three Men in a Boat as "the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river".
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Place details
- Locality
- Sonning
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,631
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.type
- Village and civil parish
- UK place.static_image_name
- The River Thames, Sonning - geograph.org.uk - 578606.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The River Thames, Sonning
- UK place.official_name
- Sonning
- UK place.population
- 1,612
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Sonning
- UK place.shire_district
- Wokingham
- UK place.shire_county
- Berkshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Earley and Woodley
- UK place.post_town
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Wokingham
- Population
- +1631
- Body of water
- River Thames
- Image
- St Andrew's, Sonning - geograph.org.uk - 99292.jpg
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- Category:Sonning
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- Ernst Reuter
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- Geography
- History
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Demography
- Transport
- Twinning
- Media
- Sport and leisure
- Notable residents
- Bibliography
- References
- External links
Sonning (traditional: ; modern: ) is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, on the River Thames, east of Reading. The village was described by Jerome K. Jerome in his book Three Men in a Boat as "the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river".
==Toponymy== The place-name Sonning seems to contain an Old English personal name, Sunna, + ingas (Old English), 'The village of the people of . . .' ; 'the village of the people called after . . .', so probably, 'homestead/village of Sunna's people', the Sunningas. Sonning appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Soninges.