Little Heath is a suburb of the town of Reading

Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large town and unitary authority area in England. It is located in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, some west of London....

, in the English

England

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 county of Berkshire

Berkshire

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. It is part of the larger suburb of Tilehurst

Tilehurst

Tilehurst is a suburb of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. It is also, with different boundaries as described below, a civil parish in West Berkshire district.-History:...

, forming the south western flank of that suburb and bordering on open countryside to its west.

Little Heath is within that part of Tilehurst, sometimes known as Tilehurst Without, that lies outside the borough boundaries of Reading. It therefore lies within the civil parish

Civil parish

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 of Tilehurst in the area of the unitary authority

Unitary authority

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 of West Berkshire

West Berkshire

West Berkshire is a local government district in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England, governed by a unitary authority . Its administrative capital is Newbury, located almost equidistantly between Bristol and London.-Geography:...

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Like the rest of Tilehurst, Little Heath falls within the Reading West constituency of the UK Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 and the South East England constituency

South East England (European Parliament constituency)

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 of the European Parliament

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Little Heath is the home of Little Heath School

Little Heath School

Little Heath School is a voluntary-aided co-educational comprehensive secondary school. The school is located in the Little Heath area of the Reading suburb of Tilehurst, in the English county of Berkshire....

, a voluntary aided

Voluntary aided school

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 co-educational comprehensive

Comprehensive school

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 secondary school

Secondary school

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that serves the local area on both sides of the borough boundary.