White Waltham

White Waltham
Waltham Place
White Waltham  White Waltham shown within Berkshire
Area	10.44 km2 (4.03 sq mi)
Population	2,850 (Civil Parish)[1]
– density	273/km2 (710/sq mi)
OS grid reference	SU855775
Civil parish	White Waltham
Unitary authority	Windsor and Maidenhead
Ceremonial county	Berkshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Maidenhead
Postcode district	SL6
Dialling code	01628
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Royal Berkshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Maidenhead
List of places UK England Berkshire

Coordinates: 51°29′24″N 0°46′08″W / 51.490°N 0.769°W / 51.490; -0.769

White Waltham is a village and civil parish, 2 miles (3 km) west of Maidenhead, in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is crossed briefly by the M4 motorway, which along with the Great Western Main Line and all other roads covers 0.267 square kilometres (0.103 sq mi) of the parish and 'greenspace' which includes cultivated fields covers the most part - this covered (in January 2005) 9.421 square kilometres (3.637 sq mi).^[2] White Waltham Airfield is in the parish.

Extent

In the south, the parish includes Paley Street and Littlefield Green. White Waltham village is clustered and sits in the mid-west of the parish. To the north east is Woodlands Park, on the edge of Maidenhead, and the Maidenhead Business Park. In the north east corner of the parish is Woolley Green and in the north west, most of Littlewick Green.

History

The area was made up of a few manors, many of which evolved into country houses, such as Waltham Place with its organic farm and gardens which are open to the public. The Church of England parish church of St Mary dates from Norman times, but has many 13th century and Victorian features. Frequent disputes as to the boundary between White Waltham and Bray occurred at intervals since 1286 and Thomas Hearne, historian, gives an account of the beating of the boundaries in his own life-time, mentioning all the place-names and commenting on 'the insolence of the parishioners of Bray in transgressing their bounds.'

Sir Constantine Henry Phipps, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was buried at St. Mary in 1723. Thomas Hearne was born at Littlefield Green in 1678. Acquiring the patronage of the local lord of the manor, Francis Cherry, he rose to become assistant-keeper of the Bodleian Library in Oxford and the author of many important works. White Waltham school was established in 1828 and has been developed and expanded since, providing primary education for pupils between the ages of 5 and 11 and has legal academy status.

The area had approximately half of the population in the late Victorian period but was overall significantly poorer in terms of real property.

Post town, Maidenhead. Acres, 2,576. Real property, £1580 (equivalent to £474,195 in 2015). Pop., 917. Houses, 179. The manor belongs to [Mr] Vansittart...W. Grove, W. Place, Heywood Lodge, and Woolley Lodge, are chief residences. Roman coins, tiles, and other relics have been found. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Shottesbrook. The church was restored in 1869. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.

—John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer, 1870-2^[3]

Today White Waltham has more than five times as many homes with 1,214.^[4]

The area's agriculture was noted as of high fertility justifying its protection after World War II.^{[n 1]}

Nearest places

Nearest Places

	Knowl Hill	Hurley	Maidenhead (suburbs of) including Pinkneys Green
	Shottesbrooke		Cox Green
	White Waltham
	Waltham St Lawrence (part of)	Binfield Warfield	Warfield

Notes and references

Notes

References

Further reading

• Ditchfield, P.H.; Page, W.H., eds. (1923). A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 3. Victoria County History. pp. 171–177. 
• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 265. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to White Waltham.

• White Waltham Village Association