Burchetts Green is a small village to the west of

Maidenhead Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England, on the southwestern bank of the River Thames. It had an estimated population of 70,374 and forms part of the border with southern Bu ...

in the

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county of

Berkshire Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berk ...

. It is half in the

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of Hurley and half in the civil parish of

Bisham Bisham is a village and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. The village is on the River Thames, around south of Marlow in the neighbouring county of Buckinghamshire, and around northwest of Maide ...

. According to the

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, in the 2011 census, the majority of the population was included in the civil parish of Bray. The

Berkshire College of Agriculture Berkshire College of Agriculture is a further education agricultural college at Hall Place in Burchetts Green, Maidenhead, Berkshire. It was founded in 1949, as the Berkshire Institute of Agriculture. Courses The college was built to provide a t ...

is located there and includes Hall Place, which was built in 1728 by William East, a wealthy

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lawyer. Burchetts Green School was originally built as a

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in 1868 on land donated by the Clayton-East family. It is an infant school with around 50 pupils. There are three churches in the

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, as well as a

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, The Crown, which in 2017 was voted 10th in

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's top 50

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s in the

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Villages in Berkshire Hurley, Berkshire Bisham {{Berkshire-geo-stub