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Maidenhead is a town in Berkshire, England, and has a population of around 60,000. The town is part of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It lies on the west bank of the River Thames. Surrounding it lie:

• to the east: on the opposite side of the river, the village of Taplow. A couple of miles further on is Slough, and after it the London boroughs of Hounslow and Uxbridge.
• to the north: the Cookhams (Cookham Village, Cookham Rise & Cookham Dean). These lie south of the Berkshire- Buckinghamshire border, which is formed by the River Thames (which then bends southwards to form the Maidenhead-Taplow border)
• to the south: the village of Holyport. Continuing by road to the South-East leads to the town of Windsor.

The ( Brunel-built) Great Western Railway passes through the town, offering convenient links to London and stations towards Bristol.

Maidenhead is in England's 'Silicon Corridor' along the M4 motorwayThe M4 motorway is also a motorway in the Republic of Ireland, on the route from Dublin to Sligo. See N4 road and Roads in Ireland. The M4 motorway is a motorway in the UK, which links London and Wales via Bristol Westbound The M4 starts six miles west of west of London. Many residents do commute to work in London, or the towns of Slough and Reading. Maidenhead offers reasonable High Street shopping facilities, multiplex cinemaA movie theater or cinema is a location, usually a building, for viewing movies. Other colloquial names include the silver screen and the big screen (contrasted with the "small screen" of television). Generally, theaters are not owned by individuals, but, leisure centre (with swimming poolA swimming pool swimming bath or wading pool is an artificially enclosed body of water intended for recreational or competitive swimming, or for other bathing activities that do not involve swimming, i. for soaking, wading, water exercise, floating around), bowling alley and an arts centre (with theatre).

Maidenhead's industries include: computer softwareComputer software (or simply software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. Program software performs the function of the program it implements, either by directly providing instructions to th, plastics, pharmaceuticals and printing. The town is also a boating centre. Maidenhead’s name originated from the wharf built on the river in 1297.

Maidenhead was home to the conference that agreed upon the standard for Maidenhead SquaresThe Maidenhead Locator System is a system for locating positions on the globe commonly used by amateur radio enthusiasts or "hams". It is named after Maidenhead, the town outside London where it was first conceived by a meeting of European VHF managers in.

The current MP for Maidenhead is Theresa May ( Conservative). The mayor is Councillor Mike Bruton ( Liberal Democrat).

Maidenhead is far more well known around the country than one would imagine. People have often mentioned its famous wide span bridge by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and old timers recount the giddy days of courting down by the lush Thames riverbanks.