College Town

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College Town
Berkshire
College Road, College Town - geograph.org.uk - 121608.jpg
College Road
Location
Grid reference: SU850614
Location: 51°20’33"N, 0°46’35"W
Data
Post town: Sandhurst
Postcode: GU47
Dialling code: 01276
Local Government
Council: Bracknell Forest
Parliamentary
constituency:
Bracknell

College Town is a village in Berkshire, which is effectively a suburb of Sandhurst. It takes its name from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, in the service of which the village grew up/ College Town is to be found north of the A321 road half a mile west of the Royal Military Academy.

The village has anout-of-town mercantile development, "The Meadows", which was built in 1988. It comprises a large Tesco Extra hypermarket and a Marks & Spencer, two of the largest in the country.

There are also shops along Yorktown Road.

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