formerly a comprehensive school, now an academy. Each is a Church of England voluntary controlled school and are also feeder schools to each other. They are all named after Robert Piggott. Demography Wargrave is recorded since at least the Norman Conquest as covering the land right up to the crest of the hills to the east, (but only in terms of the civil parish since the building of chapels of ease in the outlying parts after the 19th century secular/religious split). At the level of local government above this, the Wargrave ward is redrawn typically every 12 years to roughly even out the population between such wards. It covers a similar area. As is common across the United Kingdom],the RG10 postcode of the mid-county-covering Reading post town is for postal convenience and bears a slight relation to the largest administrative border as currently drawn. Key statistics from both administrative areas are shown in the table below together with the nucleus of Wargrave twin census Lower Level Super Output Areas which omits a few communities of Wargrave which are isolated by buffering fields and woodlands. Notable residents Richard Aldworth (c.1614–1680), MP for Reading, was born in Wargrave Dave Allen, comedian Angela Baddeley, actress, lived in Wargrave prior to her death in 1976 Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore Raymond Baxter, television presenter Bert Bushnell, athlete 1948 Olympic Gold medalist at double sculls Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee, magician and his wife/assistant Peter Davison, actor, lived in Willow Lane, Wargrave in the 1980s Sandra Dickinson, actress Nicholas "Beau" Hannen, actor (son of Sir Nicholas Hannen) Sir Nicholas John Hannen, Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan Mary Hopkin, singer Sir Morell Mackenzie, physician and surgeon Robert Morley, actor Bobby Whitlock, Musician, Derek and the Dominoes, Delaney and Bonnie, Eric Clapton, also featured on All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) Nearest places Notes References Sources Gray, R. and Griffiths, S. (eds) (1986), The Book of Wargrave, Wargrave: Wargrave Local History Society, External links Wargrave News Online Wargrave Parish Council Berkshire History: Wargrave Wargrave Cricket Club Civil parishes in Berkshire Populated places on the River Thames Villages in Berkshire Borough of Wokingham