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Maidenhead
Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England. It lies on the southwestern bank of the River Thames, which at this point forms the border with Buckinghamshire. In the 2021 Census, the Maidenhead built-up area had a population of 67,375. The town is west of Charing Cross, London and east-northeast of Reading, Berkshire, Reading. History The antiquary John Leland (antiquary), John Leland claimed that the area around Maidenhead's present town centre was a small Roman settlement called Alaunodunum. He stated that it had all but disappeared by the end of the Roman occupation. Although his source is unknown, there is documented and physical evidence of Roman settlement in the town. There are two well known villa sites in the town, one being in the suburb of Cox Green, Berkshire, Cox Green, and the other just west of the town centre on Castle Hill. This villa sat on the route of the Camlet Way which was a Roman road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maidenhead (UK Parliament Constituency)
Maidenhead is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency in Berkshire represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Joshua Reynolds (politician), Joshua Reynolds, a Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat, since 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024. Following its creation at the 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 general election, the seat was held for twenty-seven years by Conservative Member of Parliament Theresa May, who served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016 and as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019. Prior to the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election, it was considered a safe seat for the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. Constituency profile Housing is, in the Wokingham district part, at the northern end of a belt where more than 40% of dwellings are detached houses, and less than 10.8% are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Borough Of Windsor And Maidenhead
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is a unitary authority area with royal borough status in Berkshire, England. The borough is named after its two largest towns of Maidenhead (where the council is based) and Windsor. The borough also includes the towns of Ascot and Eton, plus numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. It is home to Windsor Castle, Eton College, Legoland Windsor and Ascot Racecourse. It is one of only four boroughs in England entitled to be prefixed ''royal'', and the only one of them which is not a London borough. History The non-metropolitan district of Windsor and Maidenhead was created in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, as one of six districts within Berkshire. It covered the whole area of five former districts and part of a sixth, which were all abolished at the same time: * Cookham Rural District * Eton Rural District (parishes of Datchet, Horton and Wraysbury only, rest split between Beaconsfield and Slough) * Eton Urban District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maidenhead Bridge
Maidenhead Bridge is a Grade I listed bridge carrying the A4 road over the River Thames between Maidenhead, Berkshire and Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. It crosses the Thames on the reach above Bray Lock, about half a mile below Boulter's Lock. The Thames Path crosses the river here. History The first bridge was built of wood in 1280 in what was then the hamlet of South Ellington. The Great West Road to Reading, Gloucester and Bristol was diverted over the new bridge – previously it kept to the north bank crossed the Thames by ford at Cookham – and mediaeval Maidenhead grew up around it. Within a few years a wharf was constructed next to the bridge and the South Ellington name was dropped with the area becoming known as Maidenhythe (literally meaning "new wharf"). The earliest record of this name change is in the Bray Court manorial rolls of 1296. In 1297 a grant of pontage for the charge of tolls for repairs to the bridge was awarded and a replacement bridge was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bray, Berkshire
Bray, occasionally Bray on Thames, is a suburban village and civil parish in the Windsor and Maidenhead district, in the ceremonial county of Berkshire. It sits on the banks of the River Thames, to the southeast of Maidenhead with which it is contiguous. The village is mentioned in the comedic song " The Vicar of Bray". Bray contains two of the nine three- Michelin-starred restaurants in the United Kingdom and has several large business premises including Bray Studios at Water Oakley, where the first series of Hammer Horror films were produced. Geography The civil parish of Bray is far larger than the village itself and includes a number of other villages and hamlets over an area of . It had a population of 8,425 at the 2001 census, increasing to 9,110 at the 2011 census. Bray is a large parish, although its area has shrunk considerably since Maidenhead was detached. As well as the village, the parish contains a large number of villages and hamlets, which were origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maidenhead Town Hall
Maidenhead Town Hall is a municipal building in St Ives Road, Maidenhead Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England. It lies on the southwestern bank of the River Thames, which at this point forms the border with Buckinghamshire. In the 2021 Census, ..., Berkshire, England. History A medieval guildhall was constructed in the High Street around 1430 and replaced by a larger guildhall, designed by Theodosius Keene in the Italianate architecture, Italianate style, in 1777. In the late 1950s, Maidenhead Borough Council decided to demolish the aging 18th guildhall and replace it with a modern facility. The site selected for the new building had previously been occupied by a 16th century mansion known as St Ives Place. Henry VIII, King Henry VIII granted St Ives Place to Anne of Cleves for life as part of his divorce settlement with her in 1541. In the 18th century, it had become the home of Peniston Powney, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berkshire
Berkshire ( ; abbreviated ), officially the Royal County of Berkshire, is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Oxfordshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the north-east, Greater London to the east, Surrey to the south-east, Hampshire to the south, and Wiltshire to the west. Reading, Berkshire, Reading is the largest settlement and the county town. The county has an area of and a population of 911,403. The population is concentrated in the east, the area closest to Greater London, which includes the county's largest towns: Reading (174,224), Slough (164,793), Bracknell (113,205), and Maidenhead (70,374). The west is rural, and its largest town is Newbury, Berkshire, Newbury (33,841). For local government purposes Berkshire comprises six Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority areas: Bracknell Forest, Borough of Reading, Reading, Borough of Slough, Slough, West Berkshire, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinkneys Green
Pinkneys Green is a semi-rural village near the town of Maidenhead, Berkshire. It sits within the ancient parish of Cookham. Location Pinkneys Green is about two miles northwest of Maidenhead town centre, although it is located within the boundaries of the town. The village is located east of the A404 and north-west of the suburb of Highway. Cookham Dean and Bisham are to the north, Burchett's Green and Stubbings to the west, and Cox Green to the south. History Established as a hamlet circa 1650, it had become known as Pinkneys Green by the early 1700s, although it is unclear whether the name derives specifically from Ghilo de Pinkney, a Norman knight who supported William the Conqueror, or in reference to the Pinkney family as a whole. This prominent family, whose main estates were in Northamptonshire, owned the original manor of Pinkneys Court, then in the parish of Cookham, from the 12th to the 15th century. The wooded Maidenhead Thicket, owned by the National Trust, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cox Green, Berkshire
Cox Green is a civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire. It is a large suburb of Maidenhead with most of its housing west of the A404(M) Maidenhead bypass and south of the A4 road. The remainder of this area is rural. The parish has an urban boundary with Woodlands Park to the southwest and a rural boundary with White Waltham parish to the west. History The original village was ecclesiastically a hamlet under Bray church that had a nucleus by Cox Green Lane, Cox Green Road and Norden Road, south of the railway ( see map of 1945 here). Parts of this are now outside the current parish boundary. The second half of the 20th century saw a rapid expansion of housing, including Woodlands Park to the west, and Cox Green is now part of the wider urban area of Maidenhead. Geography Cox Green has a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on the South border of the village, called Great Thrift Wood. Amenities and listed buildings Schools in the ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor is a historic town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is the site of Windsor Castle, one of the official residences of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British monarch. The town is situated west of Charing Cross, central London, southeast of Maidenhead, and east of the modern county town of Reading, Berkshire, Reading. It is immediately south of the River Thames, which forms its boundary with its smaller, ancient twin town of Eton, Berkshire, Eton. The village of Old Windsor, just over to the south, predates what is now called Windsor by around 300 years. In the past, Windsor was formally referred to as New Windsor to distinguish the two. Etymology ''Windlesora'' is first mentioned in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.'' (The settlement had an earlier name but this is unknown.) The name originates from old English ''Windles-ore'' or ''winch by the riverside''.South S.R., ''The Book of Windsor'', Barracuda Books, 1977. This etymol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Waltham
White Waltham is a village and civil parish, west of Maidenhead, in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is crossed briefly by the M4 motorway, which along with the Great Western Main Line and all other roads covers of the parish and 'greenspace' which includes cultivated fields covers the most part - this covered (in January 2005) . White Waltham Airfield is in the parish. Extent In the south, the parish includes the hamlets of Paley Street and Littlefield Green. White Waltham village is clustered and sits in the mid-west of the parish. To the northeast is Woodlands Park, on the edge of Maidenhead, and the Maidenhead Business Park. In the northeast corner of the parish is Woolley Green and in the northwest, most of Littlewick Green. History The area was made up of a few manor houses, many of which evolved into country houses, for example Waltham Place, with its organic farm and gardens which are open to the public. The Church of England p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furze Platt
Furze Platt railway station is a railway station in the town of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. It is down the line from station and measured from . History The Wycombe Railway (WR), part of which now forms the greater portion of the Marlow Branch Line, Marlow branch line, opened between Maidenhead and High Wycombe in 1854 with the first station out of Maidenhead being . The Great Western Railway absorbed the Wycombe Railway in 1867 and opened "Furze Platt Halt" on 5 July 1937 to serve the area's growing population. British Rail renamed the station "Furze Platt" on 5 May 1969. The single platform station has basic facilities including a waiting shelter, a customer help point, and a ticket office is open weekdays from 6:45 to 11:30. The station is next to a level crossing on Harrow Lane, Maidenhead. Services All services at Furze Platt are operated by Great Western Railway (train operating company), Great Western Railway. The typical off-peak service is one train per hour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
