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 Waggon and Horses) 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.
Cricket has been played on Pinkneys Green since 1885. Michael Parkinson officially opened the new Pinkneys Green Cricket Club pavilion in May 2007 following the destruction of the previous one in an arson attack in February 2004. The club fields both competitive and friendly teams, and has junior Colts teams for the Under 11 and Under 13 age groups.
Carter's Steam Fair comes through Pinkneys Green each year in the Spring.
Pinkneys Green has its own Scout Group on Winter Hill Road. Pinkneys Green Scouts started in 1909 has over 135 members, including Beavers Scouts, Cub Scouts, Scouts and Leaders.
[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.
| Settlements in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead |
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| Towns: Ascot | Maidenhead | Windsor |
| Civil parishes: Bisham | Bray | Cookham | Cox Green | Datchet | Eton | Horton | Hurley | Old Windsor | Shottesbrooke | Sunningdale | Sunninghill and Ascot | Waltham St Lawrence | White Waltham | Wraysbury |
| Other villages and suburbs: Bray Wick | Burchetts Green | Cheapside | Clewer | Cockpole Green | Cookham Dean | Dedworth | Eton Wick | Holyport | Knowl Hill | Littlewick Green | Paley Street | Pinkneys Green | Sunninghill | Touchen End |
