Stubbings
| Stubbings | |
| Berkshire | |
|---|---|
 St James the Less, Stubbings | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU850814 |
| Location: | 51°31’32"N, -0°46’34"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | SL6 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Windsor and Maidenhead |
Stubbings is a hamlet found to the west of Maidenhead, in the Berkshire. It has been placed within the civil parish of neighbouring Bisham,
The village is immediately west of Maidenhead, divided from it by the National Trust land at Maidenhead Thicket. The A404 dual carriageway cruelly slices past the village to the southwest cutting it for its hinterland in that direction.
Stubbings House mansion was very briefly the home of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, the Governor of Quebec and later, during Second World War, of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. Another notable resident from 1947 to 1969 was physicist Sir Thomas Merton inventor of the "one-shilling rangefinder" which was used to bring down flying bombs at a range of 300 yards.
The house, built by barrister Humphry Ambler about 1740,[1] is located on an 80-acre estate just east of Burchetts Green.
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References
- ↑ Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Will of Humphry Ambler of Bisham, Berkshire. Date 4 November 1745, Catalogue reference PROB 11/742