18th Century
Inside the Great Barn
The Great Barn is one of a group of buildings that were once the nucleus of Cippenham Court farm. Positioned on the south side of Cippenham Lane opposite Westgate school playing field, the…
THE CIPPENHAM COLLECTION
Articles
People, places and stories from our village’s past.
19 stories
Features
Fun with colouring
Recently, newly coloured-in versions of vintage black-and-white photographs have been appearing in newspapers and online news sites. The realism of the colouring compares favourably with…
Medieval
Two-Mile Brook
Two-mile brook is an ancient mill stream that flows from Haymill (once the site of a mill called Ay Mill) through the heart of Cippenham. It possesses more early historical references than…
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…
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…