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"MAIDENHEAD, a market town and municipal borough in the parishes of Bray and Cookham,county Berks, having separate jurisdiction, though locally in the hundred of Bray and Cookham, 7 miles N.W. of Windsor, 14 N.E. of Reading, and 26 from London, or 22½ by the Great Western railway, which has a station here. There is also a branch line to Oxford. The town, situated on the western bank of the Thames, is approached from the London road by a stone bridge of seven arches, built in 1772 at an expense of £20,000, to replace a wooden one of the reign of Edward III., for the repair of which a tree was allowed annually out of Windsor Forest. There is also a bridge of 10 brick arches, carrying the line of the Great Western railway across the Thames. With the exception of its river-front, the town is encircled by a fertile country, including the heights of Taplow and the dark belting wood of Clifden on the eastern bank of the Thames. Its ancient name was South Allington, or Elington, to distinguish it from North Elington, now North Town. It afterwards was called Maiden Hythe, of which its present name is a corruption. The first charter was granted in the reign of Edward III, for the purpose of keeping the bridge in proper repair; and, by a recent Act, the corporation were authorised to transfer the tolls received from vessels passing under the bridge to the traffic on the road over it." (More ...).
From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland(1868). Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003.
Other descriptions can be found from other periods in various trade directories covering Berkshire from the early 19th century onwards, from Berkshire FHS, 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))
| Maidenhead URC (was Congregational), Maidenhead, United Reform Church |
| New Chapel (Countess of Huntingdon), Maidenhead, Countess of Huntingdon |
| St Joseph, Maidenhead, Roman Catholic |
| Providence Baptist (now Jubilee Community Church), Maidenhead, Baptist |
| York Rd, Maidenhead, Particular Baptist |
| Maidenhead URC (was Congregational), Maidenhead, United Reform Church |
| New Chapel (Countess of Huntingdon), Maidenhead, Countess of Huntingdon |
| Friends Meeting House, Maidenhead, Society of Friends |
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- Church of England:
- All Saints (Boyne Hill), St Andrew and St Mary Magdalene, St Luke's from Berkshire FHS, and see also their Maidenhead page
- Braywood All Saints is demolished
- St Mark's Hospital Church started as the workhouse chapel in 1873, now a church in the hospital grounds. The church was a gift to the poor of Maidenhead by Mr Hibbert, a local benefactor and chairman of the Board of Guardians of the Workhouse, see leaflet for more details.
- Congregational:
- Congregational (now United Reformed) Church in West Street (formerly Back Street), Maidenhead, registers at the BRO and in booklet from Berkshire FHS. For early history, see The History of the Congregational Churches in the Berks, etc
- Maidenhead Congregational Church, London Missionary Society - Maidenhead Free Church Council, Maidenhead Auxiliary, Maidenhead Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion church records are held by the BRO
- Maidenhead Library holds transcripts of registers for all Maidenhead parishes except Waltham St. Lawrence, and transcripts of registers for a number of other parishes in former Berkshire, but not including Windsor. Known as the "Brooks collection", covering the period from 1500's to 1837. More recent registers are held at the Berkshire Record Office.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Maidenhead to another place.
- Maidenhead was in the hundreds of Bray and Cookham
- Maidenhead Heritage Centre is the museum for Maidenhead and the surrounding villages
- Maidenhead Borough and court petty sessions archived records are held by the BRO
- See the Bibliography and search the BRO's holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU870810 (Lat/Lon: 51.521228, -0.747452), Maidenhead 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.
Maidenhead was in the Cookham (later Maidenhead) Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.