Wraysbury, Berkshire - Kingsmead Sailing Club - RP postcard

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  • Picture / Image:  Kingsmead Sailing Club, Wraysbury, Berkshire - real photo type
  • Publisher:  J Salmon, Sevenoaks
  • Postally used:  yes
  • Stamp:  25p red Machin
  • Postmark(s):  Twickenham 1994
  • Sent to:  Upminster, Essex
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Wraysbury is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England in the very east of the county, in the part that was in Buckinghamshire until 1974. It sits on the northern bank of the River Thames in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead however the Wraysbury Reservoir is in the Spelthorne borough of Surrey. Wraysbury is 18 miles (29 km) west by south-west of London.

Investigation by Windsor and Wraysbury Archaeological Society of a field in the centre of Wraysbury to the east of St Andrew's church revealed evidence of human activity in Neolithic times. Many hundreds of flint artefacts were found and are now in the care of the Windsor Museum collection.

The village name is traditionally spelt traditionally spelt Wyrardisbury, is Anglo Saxon in origin and means 'Wïgr?d's fort'. Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wirecesberie[1] and Wiredesbur in 1195. The name is seen again as Wyrardesbury in 1422.[2] There is a pub across the river in Old Windsor, called the Bells of Ouseley and it has been suggested that this is another archaic spelling of Wraysbury.[citation needed] However a more likely explanation is that it is named after the bells of Osney Abbey which were brought downstream at the dissolution and disappeared into the mud at this point.

The village was a portion of hunting grounds when the Saxons resided at Old Windsor. New Windsor was built in 1110 by King Henry I and he moved in, in 1163. The lands around Wraysbury were held by a number of noblemen.

Magna Carta Island, in the parish of Wraysbury, was the location of the sealing of the Magna Carta in 1215.

On the Ankerwycke estate in the village are the ruins of a Benedictine nunnery, founded in the reign of King Henry II. One of the 50 oldest trees in the United Kingdom can be found in Wraysbury. At around 2000 years old,[3] the Ankerwycke Yew dates from the Iron Age, and is so wide that you can fit a Mini Cooper behind its trunk and not see it from the other side. Local legend says that Anne Boleyn once sat under the tree, while residing at the Ankerwycke Estate, but this still has to be verified.[4][5] The Ankerwycke estate was bought by John Blagrove a prominent Jamaican slave owner, who did much to improve the estate.[6]