What is "theale"

Theale is a large village in West Berkshire, England which forms a civil parish. It has a high street of small businesses, large business parks beside its railway station and its own schools.

The village is bounded to the south and south-east by the leisure-use Kennet & Avon Canal, to the near north of which is the River Kennet which has within Theale large lakes following extraction of gravel - 11% of Theale's area is fresh water. Theale is centred southwest of Reading, its nearest major town, and 10 miles east of Thatcham. The north of Theale civil parish is a golf course and the eastern boundary is the M4 motorway where there is a dual carriageway and junction with the local roads. Theale lies in the far east of the West Berkshire authority.