Bray Parish is a large parish comprising 2,684 hectares of which 94.8% is Green Belt. It has approximately 4,000 homes and 6,500 residents on the electoral register. There are two principal villages, Bray and Holyport both of which have conservation areas within them and a number of other villages and hamlets. Residents are represented by 15 Councillors; five councillors represent Bray and Braywick, six represent Holyport, Moneyrow Green, Stud Green and Touchen End, two represent Alexander, Dedworth and Water Oakley, one represents Fifield, Oakley Green, Foxley Green, Braywoodside and Hawthorn Hill and one represents The Fisheries. The parish council was formed in 1894. Amongst its assets the Council owns and maintains a cemetery, two allotments, three playgrounds, two car parks, two village greens, a field, a slipway, a tennis court, three war memorials, thirty-five benches, eleven notice boards, sixteen dog waste bins, sixty-one streetlights, a millennium sun dial and a Newsham Fire Engine donated by Lady Coleraine in 1737, which is believed to be the largest of six fire engines that remain from this period. The parish is within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead and one of the current parish councillors is also a district councillor.