Wexham is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the county of

Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...

in southern England. It is on the boundary of the

unitary authority A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national governmen ...

Slough Slough () is a town and unparished area in the unitary authority of the same name in Berkshire, England, bordering west London. It lies in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4 ...

, its post town.

Wexham Park Hospital Wexham Park Hospital is a large National Health Service, NHS hospital in Slough, Berkshire. It has been managed by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust since 2014. Andrew Valentine Morris, Sir Andrew Morris is the chief executive of Frimley Health ...

is a large hospital on the parish border and

Burnham Beeches Burnham Beeches is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest situated west of Farnham Common in the village of Burnham, Buckinghamshire. The southern half is owned by the Corporation of London and is open to the public. It is also a Na ...

, a forest takes in small parts of its northern land.

History

The parish originally covered a relatively small (1.2 square miles) according to the 1881 and 1891 censuses. It was almost doubled in 1934 by taking in and about 1,000 people from the dissolved

Langley Marish Langley, also known as Langley Marish, is a suburb of Slough in Berkshire, South East England. It is east of the town centre of Slough, and west of Charing Cross in Central London. It was a separate civil parish until the 1930s, when the b ...

parish, a very long

strip parish A strip parish is a parish with a narrow, elongated shape, typically formed during the Anglo-Saxon and early medieval period. The shape is influenced by landscape, political and economic factors. Evidence of such parishes can be found throughout E ...

part of which was taken in by

Gerrards Cross Gerrards Cross is a town and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire, England, separated from the London Borough of Hillingdon at Harefield by Denham, south of Chalfont St Peter and north bordering villages of Fulmer, Hedgerley, Iver Heath and St ...

almost four miles to the north. Wexham civil parish was divided under the

Local Government Act 1972 The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974. It was one of the most significant Acts of Parliament to be passed by the Heath Gov ...

, with the southern part becoming part of Slough and the northern part becoming part of the present district. The northern part now constitutes the civil parish of Wexham, with the southern part having been a parish called Wexham Court. Wexham Court has a parish council with 11 members. It and some additional unparished territory formed the current (adjustable) three-member

Slough Borough Council Slough Borough Council is the local authority for the Borough of Slough, in Berkshire, England. Slough is a unitary authority, having the powers of a county and district council combined. Berkshire is purely a ceremonial county, with no administ ...

ward Ward may refer to: Division or unit * Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward * Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...

of Wexham Lea. In 2018 the parish of Wexham Court, and neighbouring

Britwell Britwell is a residential housing estate and civil parish in the north west of Slough, Berkshire, South East England. It is about west of Charing Cross, the centremost point of London. The name Britwell derives from the old English ''beorhtan wi ...

were scheduled for abolition in April 2019, but after an appeal by the parish councils and a judicial review the order was quashed and the parishes remain unchanged. The civil parish of Wexham includes in order of number of inhabitants: George Green,

Middlegreen Middle Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Wexham (where the 2011 Census population was included) in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located within the Metropolitan Green Belt bordering the north-east edge of Slough and close to the Slough ...

, and Wexham Street. It has protected green spaces comprising woodland, Langley Park and

Black Park Country Park Black Park is a country park in Wexham, Buckinghamshire, England to the north of the A412 road. It is managed by Buckinghamshire Council, formerly County Council. It has an area of , of which two separate areas totalling have been designated a ...

. The village has a 12th-century parish church and the 16th century Wexham Court.

Demography

Education

The parish relies for its education on neighbouring villages with greater populations, save that the Japanese international boarding school

Teikyo School United Kingdom is a Japanese international school in Wexham, Buckinghamshire, 20 miles to the west of London. It educates 59 students aged between 15 and 18 years. It is affiliated with Teikyo University, and the Japanese government classifies the school as ...

is in Wexham.Head's Welcome
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. Retrieved on 8 January 2014. "Framewood Road, Wexham, Buckinghamshire SL2 4QS UK"

References

External links

Wexham Court Parish Council
{{Slough suburbs Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire Suburbs of Slough

History

Demography

Education

See also

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