Pinkneys Green

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Pinkneys Green is a village within the north-western bounds of the town of Maidenhead in the English county of Berkshire.

[edit] Location

Pinkneys Green is located at grid reference SU857820, just north-east of the A404 road and north-west of Highway. Stubbings is to the west and Bisham and Cookham Dean some way to the north.

[edit] Character and amenities

Pinkneys Green is a dormitory residential area and contains very few businesses or services. It does, however, have two public houses (including the Stag and Hounds) and a restuarant, 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 accross the area. It is owned by the National Trust.

Pinkneys Green has it own Scout Group on Winter Hill Road.

[edit] History

Pinkney's Green takes its name from the Pinkney family who owned the original manor of Pinkneys Court, then in the parish of Cookham, from the 12th to the 15th century. Their main estates were in Northamptonshire.

The wooded Maidenhead Thicket, also owned by the National Trust, is at Pinkneys Green. The banks and ditches of a small Iron Age farmstead, called 'Robin Hood's Arbour' may be seen there. 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.