Crowthorne is a village as well as civil parish in the Bracknell Forest area of south-eastern Berkshire. It had a population of 6,711 at the 2001 census, enhancing to 6,902 at the 2011 Census. Crowthorne is best known for Wellington College, a huge co-educational boarding and also day independent school, which opened in 1859, and for Broadmoor Hospital, among three optimal safety and security psychiatric hospitals in England, which lies on the eastern perimeter of the community. Crowthorne becomes part of the Reading/Wokingham Urban Location. The Crowthorne location overflows right into the neighbouring church of Wokingham Without. A lot of Crowthorne remains in the Bracknell Forest district.