Business events in Tadley

A town beside Aldermaston

The Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston is Tadley's neighbour, across the county boundary: Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council notes that AWE Aldermaston and AWE Burghfield are both in West Berkshire. Its draft local plan policy on the two sites sets planning consultation zones round them, including a Detailed Emergency Planning Zone, within which the Office for Nuclear Regulation is consulted on planning applications. Anyone looking at premises or building work in the town should read it. A government factsheet on the Aldermaston site puts it near West Berkshire's southern boundary, with Tadley to its south in Hampshire.

The town itself is in Basingstoke and Deane, with its own town council. The ONS counted 14,760 people in the Tadley built-up area at the 2021 Census.

Shops, forest and common

Tadley Town Council's welcome pack gives a good sense of the place. It points newcomers to the local shops on Mulfords Hill and the open ground of Tadley Common, and to walks in Pamber Forest, which it describes as ancient woodland with heath and wood pasture, running from Tadley to Little London. The waymarked Silchester Trail, a circular walk of up to eight miles, and the Roman town at Silchester are close by. The town council's full council meets every other month at its offices on Franklin Avenue, with committees on Zoom, all open to the public.

Business and getting here

Figures for business are kept for the borough. The ONS business register counted 7,020 enterprises across Basingstoke and Deane in 2026; the number is the whole borough's, not Tadley's.

There is no railway station in Tadley. The town's community centre, The Link on Newchurch Road, has hosted a weekly business group listed under Tadley. For more in the north of the county, see Basingstoke and Hook, and the whole of North Hampshire.