Medieval
Navigable channel from the Thames to Cippenham
Maxwell Fraser in her History of Slough references Tighe Davis for the astonishing claim that there was a navigable channel from the Thames which passed near to the ‘palace’ up which…
THE CIPPENHAM COLLECTION
From the archive · 2017-05
People, places and stories from our village’s past.
5 stories
Snippets
Some stray notes.. from 1894
The extract below is from a short book titled Some stray notes upon Slough and Upton , collected from various sources, published in 1892 On the south-west side of Slough we come first to…
Snippets
John Mason of Cippenham Court Farm, murdered, 1757.
In June, 1757, John Mason, of Cippenham Court Farm, returning home from Windsor Market, was way-laid by two footpads, who robbed him of 25 guineas, and shot him in the stomach, wounding him…
Medieval
Magna Britannia by Lysons
Magna Britannia: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire by Samuel Lysons, 1813 has the following entries on Cippenham. page 466 At the time of the Norman Survey there were only eight…
Features
Burnham Abbey Foundation Charter
The foundation charter was originally written in Latin. This is below. Below that is the English translation BURNHAMENSE COENOBIUM, IN AGRO BUCKINGHAMENSI. Rex archiepiscopis, c. salutem.…