Your East Reading

So many wonderful unique communities make up the town of Reading. We're celebrating every inch of the borough by telling stories via our residents about seven local areas surrounding our libraries - hubs of the local community that provide services which span the generations and embrace the diversity of local populations.

Residents tell us about what makes the area home, local hidden gems and what they love about where they live and what makes their community so wonderfully unique across the borough.

Your East Reading is the fourth of our communities to be featured and includes people of East Reading, Reading Old Cemetery where the founder of Reading FC is buried, Monty's Café with the highest food hygiene rating, Palmer Park with a variety of facilities and lots more local gems. Famously the centre of East Reading was the name of a film Ricky Gervais wrote, directed and starred in - Cemetery Junction - although Reading born Gervais did say ‘it's not really set in Reading, it's any small town, anywhere in the world to be honest.’

Keep an eye on the Reading Borough Council social media for Your area and look back at the areas already featured; Your Tilehurst, Your town centre and Your South Reading on our social media accounts:

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