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"SUNNINGDALE was formed into a civil parish in March 1894 from the parish of Old Windsor; the village is situated on the Basingstoke and Reading roads, with a station on the Reading and Staines branch of the South Western Railway, 26 miles from London, 7 miles sout from Windsor, 5 south-west from Old Windsor, in the Eastern division of the county, Windsor petty sessional division and union, couty court district of Chertsey, rural deanery of Maidenhead, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1841 from portions of Old Windsor, Windlesham, Sunninghill, Egham and Chobham. The church of Holy Trinity, partially re-built in 1887-8, at a cost of about £7,347, is an edifice of brick and Bath stone in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, transepts, north porch and central tower containing a clock and one bell: it affords 600 sittings. The register dates from the year 1841. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £248 with 7 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford."
From Kelly's Directory of Berkshire, 1915, transcribed by Robert Monk ©2011
From Kelly's Directory of Berkshire, 1915, transcribed by Robert Monk ©2011
Other descriptions can be found from other periods in various trade directories covering Berkshire from the early 19th century onwards from Berkshire FHS (members only) and from A Vision of Britain Through Time.
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In addition to those listed on the Berkshire home page, see the Research Wiki from Family Search (the Church of Latter-day Saints (Genealogical Society of Utah))
Sunningdale, Congregational |
Holy Trinity, Sunningdale, Church of England |
St Agnes mission church, Sunningdale, Church of England |
Sunningdale, Congregational |
Sacred Heart, Sunningdale, Roman Catholic |
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Church of England: Holy Trinity from Berkshire FHS
- Congregational Church from Berkshire FHS founded 1865 now closed and turned into housing in the 1970s. For early history, see The History of the Congregational Churches in the Berks, etc
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Sunningdale to another place.
- Sunningdale was in the hundred of Ripplesmere
- See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU953675 (Lat/Lon: 51.398539, -0.631493), Sunningdale which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Sunningdale was in the Windsor Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.