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People, places and stories from our village’s past.

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The strange tail of the Chalvey Stabmonk
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The strange tail of the Chalvey Stabmonk

Few people today will have heard of the bizarre ‘Stabmonk’ ceremony that took place annually on Whit Monday in Chalvey where a plaster-cast effigy of a monkey was given a mock funeral and…

How Cippenham Court Farm became The Slough Dump
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How Cippenham Court Farm became The Slough Dump

Cippenham Court Farm, 1909/10. Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies D11/12/14 Prior to the 20 th century, Cippenham was a quiet country village consisting of humble terraced cottages…

The man who came back from the dead
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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 Hill Family of Cippenham in The Great War.
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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…

Cippenham War Memorial 3D
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Cippenham War Memorial 3D

Created from images taken 3 January 2017 Warmem-03rcm by cippenham on…