Maidenhead, Berkshire - Courage Shire Horse Centre - postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  Courage Shire Horse Centre, Maidenhead, Berkshire
• Publisher:  Colin Richardson (printers)
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Maidenhead is a large town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, in Berkshire, England. It lies south of the River Thames (although at Maidenhead the river runs north-south so the town is in fact on its west bank). Maidenhead is 25.7 miles (41.4 km) west of Charing Cross in London, and its mainline railway station was set to be the terminus of the Crossrail line until the announcement was made that Reading was to be the new terminus.

Maidenhead's name refers to the riverside area where the ""New wharf"" or ""Maiden Hythe"" was built, perhaps as early as Saxon times. It has been suggested^{[by whom?]} that the nearby Great Hill of Taplow was called the ""Mai Dun"" by the Iron Age Brythons. The area of the town centre was originally known as ""South Ellington"" and is recorded in the Domesday Book as Ellington in the hundred of Beynhurst.^[1]

In 1280, a bridge was erected across the river to replace a ferry in what was then the hamlet of South Ellington.^[2] The Great West Road to Reading, Gloucester and Bristol was diverted over the new bridge – previously it kept to the north bank and crossed the Thames by ford at Cookham—and medieval Maidenhead grew up around it.^[3] Within a few years a wharf was constructed next to the bridge and the South Ellington name was dropped with the area becoming known as Maidenhythe (literally meaning ""new wharf""). The earliest record of this name change is in the Bray Court manorial rolls of 1296.^[2] The bridge led to the growth of Maidenhead: a stopping point for coaches on the journeys between London and Bath and the High Street became populated with inns. The current Maidenhead Bridge, a local landmark, dates from 1777 and was built at a cost of £19,000.

King Charles I met his children for the last time before his execution in 1649 at the Greyhound Inn^[4] on the High Street, the site of which is now a branch of the NatWest Bank. A plaque commemorates their meeting.

When the Great Western Railway came to the town, it began to expand. Muddy roads were replaced and public services were installed. The High Street began to change again and substantial Victorian red brick architecture began to appear throughout the town. Maidenhead became its own entity in 1894, being split from the civil parishes of both Bray and Cookham.

Maidenhead Citadel Corps of the Salvation Army was first opened in the Town in the mid-1880s. Maidenhead Citadel Band was soon founded in 1886 by Bandmaster William Thomas who later became Mayor of the Town.

By Edwardian times, Boulter's Lock nearby became a favoured resort especially on Ascot Sunday, and the Skindles hotel developed a reputation for illicit liaisons.^[5]

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city/ region=maidenhead

period=post-war (1945-present)

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size=continental/ modern (150x100 mm)