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…
THE CIPPENHAM COLLECTION
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People, places and stories from our village’s past.
35 stories
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…
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.…
Snippets
Skirmish at Cippenham in 1645
The text in blue below is a transcript of the document held at the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies. It has an entry at the National Archives catalogue as follows: Title: Transcription of…
Snippets
Dancers wanted wine in 1929
Anyone who has lived in Cippenham Green will have been familiar with the three pubs at its centre. The Swan on the north side of Lower Cippenham Lane was built in the mid-1920s. In 2014 it…