About us

What’s all this about biscuits?

It’s true, there is not much to connect biscuits and cinema, but biscuits and Reading go way back. Joseph Huntley was selling biscuits to travelers on their way to Bath or London as early as 1822, and invented the biscuit tin to help prevent breakages on the journey. His small bakery eventually grew into Huntley & Palmers, the largest employer in Reading and by 1900 the world’s largest biscuit company. Their vast factory earned Reading the nickname “Biscuit Town”.

Getting to Reading Biscuit Factory

Our address is:
Unit 1A, Queen’s Walk (Corner of Oxford Road),
Reading RG1 7QE
We are located in the Broad Street Mall, on the corner of Oxford Road and Queens Walk.

By car:

Broad Street Mall has its own 720-space multi-storey car park, open 24 hours a day and accessed directly via the A329 Inner Distribution Road (IDR), between the junctions with the A4155 (Castle Hill) to the south and Chatham Street to the north.
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By train:

We are approximately 8 minutes’ walk from Reading main railway station (for trains from London Paddington, Guildford, Bristol and Oxford) and about 13 minutes from Reading West station (for trains from Newbury and Basingstoke).
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By bus:

The nearest bus stop for most routes is St Mary’s Butts, only two minutes away on the eastern side of Broad Street Mall. This serves the 3, 4, X4, 5, 6, 6a, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 19a, 19b, 21, 42, 42a, 50, 500, 600, 905, 908 and 921.
Cheapside bus stops are located less than a minute away on Oxford Road, and serve the 15, 15a, 16, 17, 85, 88, 91, 143 and 915 routes.
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