Winkfield

Winkfield
Berkshire
Locks Ride in Winkfield Row
Location
Grid reference:	SU898711
Location:	51°25’54"N, -0°42’35"W
Data
Population:	15,271  (2001)
Post town:	Windsor
Postcode:	SL4
Dialling code:	01344
Local Government
Council:	Bracknell Forest
Parliamentary constituency:	Windsor

Winkfield is a village in Berkshire; a sizable place of 15,271 folk at the 2001 census.

The wider parish includes the hamlets of Winkfield, Maidens Green, Winkfield Row, Brockhill, Winkfield Street, Chavey Down, Woodside, Cranbourne and Swinley, part of the village of North Ascot and some of the Bracknell suburbs; Forest Park, Martins Heron and The Warren.

The parish church is St Mary's, standing at the west end of the village.

History

Winkfield's New Lodge was the home of HRH Princess Sophia of Gloucester, a niece of King George III.

Between March 1942 and the end of Second World War in June 1945 Foliejon Park in Winkfield was the residence of Haakon VII of Norway and his son and heir, Crown Prince Olav.

Sport and recreation

Winkfield has a King George V Playing Field in memorial to King George V.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Winkfield)