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Fire at Cippenham Court Farm in 1919
This article from The Evening Telegraph, Thursday, June 5, 1919 DISASTROUS FIRE NEAR MOTOR TRANSPORT DEPOT Cippenham Court Farm, which adjoins the Government motor transport depot at…
THE CIPPENHAM COLLECTION
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People, places and stories from our village’s past.
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Comparing Old Cippenham with The Present Day
The National Library of Scotland has created a superb online resource for making comparisons between historic Ordnance Survey maps and Esri satellite images. The image below has been…
19th Century up to WW-1
Earliest photograph of Cippenham
This is probably the earliest photograph of Cippenham, taken at the village centre. The image was supplied by Slough Museum and their record states that it was from 1907. The view is along…
Post WW-2
Western House
This is a detail from a photograph in Slough Museum’s collection. It shows Western House, a large farmhouse on the east side of Brook path which was homestead to the farmer Josiah Gregory…
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John Rocque's Berkshire Map, 1761
John Rocque’s ‘A topographical map of the county of Berkshire’ was first published in 1761. It could well be the earliest map in existence that shows Cippenham, which Rocque spelt…
19th Century up to WW-1
Shocking practices of Cippenham villagers
Cippenham Villagers shocking up corn 1909/10. Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies D11/12/14 This image shows Cippenham villagers indulging in the long-forgotten practice of “shocking up”.…
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The Haymill Water Wheel?
Many people who lived in Cippenham Green will remember the sight of an abandoned water-wheel lying in a field. Past the north side of the village green was a large field known as Greg’s…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…