Pinkneys Green
| Pinkneys Green | |
| Berkshire | |
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| Grid reference: | SU857820 |
| Location: | 51°31’48"N, -0°45’36"W |
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| Local Government | |
| Council: | Windsor and Maidenhead |
Pinkneys Green is a village in eastern Berkshire, latterly caught attached to the north-western bounds of the town of Maidenhead.
The village is to be found just to the northeast of the A404 road and northwest of the Highway area of Maidenhead. Stubbings is to the west and Bisham and Cookham Dean some way to the north.
History
Pinkneys Green was established as a hamlet around 1650. It became known as Pinkneys Green by the early 1700s, and it appears that the name derives from the Pinkney family, a prominent family, whose main estates were in Northamptonshire,who owned the original manor of Pinkneys Court, then in the parish of Cookham, from the 12th to the 15th century.[1]
An interesting piece of woodland, Maidenhead Thicket, is at Pinkneys Green. Today it is owned by the National Trust. The banks and ditches of a small Iron Age farmstead, called 'Robin Hood's Arbour' may be seen there.[1] The Thicket was originally a much larger area of wilderness, famous as the haunt of highwaymen in the 17th and 18th centuries. Maidenhead's coaching inns grew rich on the travellers' fear of crossing the Thicket at night.[2]
The village today
Pinkneys Green is a dormitory residential area and contains very few businesses or services. It does, however, have two public houses and a restaurant, and it is only a short distance from Maidenhead town centre and railway station.
Pinkney's Green Common is frequented by dog-walkers at all hours of the day from across the area. It is owned by the National Trust.
Carter's Steam Fair comes through Pinkneys Green each year in the Spring.
Big Society
- Scouts: established in the village in 1909. Pinkneys Green Scouts are on Winter Hill Road
- Girl Guides: 1st Pinkneys Green Guides (Miss Baden-Powell's Own): this was the first Girl Guide Company in the world in the world was the [3]
- Ellington Morris - Maidenhead's Morris Dance side, formed in 1972. They perform their traditional Mummers play at the Stag and Hounds on Boxing day followed by dancing out from May 1 at pubs, fetes and events in the area throughout the summer.
Sport
- Cricket: Pinkneys Green Cricket Club
- Football: Pinkneys Green FC
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Pinkneys Green) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Conservation Area Appraisal - Pinkneys Green". Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/public/pp_pinkneysgreen08_appraisal_statement.pdf. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ↑ "Pinkneys Green". Visitoruk.com. http://www.visitoruk.com/historydetail.php?id=28014&cid=592&f=Maidenhead. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ↑ 1st Pinkneys Green, Guides, (Miss Baden Powell Own)