Earliest Photograph

Earliest Photograph

This is the earliest known photograph of Cippenham, probably dating close to 1900. More »

Royal Palace

Royal Palace

It is believed that there was a palace for Saxon kings in Cippenham More »

Cippenham in the 1930s

Cippenham in the 1930s

The green and pond are familiar landmarks More »

Cippenham Court Farm circa 1910

Cippenham Court Farm circa 1910

Prior to WW1, Cippenham was a small village surrounded by several large farms. At the end of the war, things began to change.. More »

Earliest map showing Cippenham

Earliest map showing Cippenham

John Rocque’s Berkshire Map, 1761, might be the earliest map that shows Cippenham. More »

 

Cippenham War Memorial 3D

Created from images taken 3 January 2017

3D model of Cippenham Place

Cippenham Place 170903 by cippenham on Sketchfab  

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 most common at the time

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 Edward III (1327 to 1377) was rowed in

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 Chalvey, a very dusty and unhappy-looking village,

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 fatally, Extract from Maxwell Fraser’s The History

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 Buckinghamshire manors in the crown yet it appears there were

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. Richardus Dei gratia Romanorum rex, semper augustus, omnibus Christi fidelibus, tam præsentibus quam futuris,

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 letter from Col. Christopher Whichcote to William Lenthall

Dancers wanted wine in 1929

The Barleycorn public house

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 ceased trading as a