 On the edge of Grazeley Green and in adjoining Burghfield is the Ministry of Defence's Atomic Weapons Research Establishment factory responsible for the final assembly, maintenance and decommissioning of the UK's nuclear deterrent alongside the main AWE site at Aldermaston.Grazeley was historically divided between the parishes of Sulhamstead Abbots and Shinfield.The part within Shinfield remained in the civil parish of Shinfield and is now in the Borough of Wokingham.