WW-1
The man who came back from the dead
Cippenham War Memorial 2016 The war memorial in the centre of Cippenham carries the names of those from the village who fell during the First and Second World Wars. The inscribed list for…
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19th Century up to WW-1
Sir John Herschel and Jos Langton of Cippenham Court Farm
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, section of portrait drawn by H W Pickersgill and engraved by W J Ward. Published 1835. National Portrait Gallery, London Sir John Herschel (1792-1871),…
Post WW-2
Ghosts of Cippenham
There is a disappointing lack of ghostly and other supernatural phenomena recorded in Cippenham. The only building credited in books with being haunted is Cippenham Place. In Ghosts Along…
WW-1
The Hill Family of Cippenham in The Great War.
Cippenham War Memorial’s list of the fallen in WW1. There are four members of the Hill family commemorated on the Cippenham war memorial. Dave Hill, who was born in Cippenham in 1943 and…
Features
Cippenham War Memorial 3D
Created from images taken 3 January 2017 Warmem-03rcm by cippenham on…
Features
3D Model of The Cippenham V1
This is a 3D model of a Fiesler Fi103 flying bomb (V1), one of which hit Cippenham in 1944. There were around five different colour schemes used for V1’s and this particular scheme was the…
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…
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.…