Twyford is a large village and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham in Berkshire, England.
Twyford had two fords over two branches of the River Loddon,[4] on the Old Bath Road to the west of the centre.
[5] William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, who was a well known philanthropist who donated his life savings to Loddon Village Hall, spent the final years of his life in Ruscombe Fields, a property close to Twyford, and is remembered by a residential street named 'Pennfields'.
However, its position on the Bath Road had always brought activity which was centred on the King's Arms, an important coaching inn.
[7] The opening of a by-pass in 1929 finally ended the east–west flow of main road traffic through the centre, but Twyford is still on a busy north–south route from Wokingham in the south to Henley-on-Thames in the north.
The greatest expansion, however, has taken place since the Second World War, particularly in the last 50 years, with the construction of several estates north and south of the village.
Twyford is also home to the global headquarters of the international construction and services company, Interserve, which employs 75,000 people worldwide.
Twyford has its own parish council, and is also in the Borough of Wokingham, and the ceremonial county of Berkshire.
The Great Western Main Line has been electrified and Twyford has been served by a new fleet of electric trains since the start of 2018.
[13] Loddon Nature Reserve, under the management of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, is on the edge of the village.