Datchet Village History

Janet Kennish 2007

 Welcome to the website for Datchet Village History. The first house histories are available and many more are in preparation.
A series of articles written originally for The Link, Datchet's Parish Magazine, are reproduced here by permission of its Editors. 

Village History Topics

An Outline History of Datchet

Building Histories

The Greens

• War Memorials
• Drinking Fountain, Oak Tree and Jubilee Cross

North Green

• The Pharmacy
• 'Old Priory' (the Rectory)
• The Bridge' Parish Centre
• The Royal Stag pub
• Church Cottage

London Road

• Datchet House
• for Leigh & Malpas cottages see Astracot, Horton Road

South Green

• Village School, Farmhouse, Working Men's Club
• Manor House Range (includes Manor Hotel)
• The Morning Star & Temples Cottages

Horton Road

• Astracot cottages & The Dutch House
• The Leigh estate, Cedar House & Satis House
• The Lawns Estate & Link Road cottages

High Street

• Numbers 6 & 8, Butcher's & Sport Kit shops
  (includes Wine Rack)
• Goodwyn House

Famous people

• Robert Barker, Royal printer 
• Sir William & Caroline Herschel
• Evelyn Ellis & the First Car in England
• Tommy Sopwith flies in, 1911

Parish Magazine Articles (The Link):

• Christopher & Robert Barker
• Robert Barker's Bridge House Trust
• Datchet United Charities
• The Handprint in the Royal Stag's Window
• Manor Hotel & Morning Star pubs
• The Parish Workhouses
• Victorian rebuilding of St Mary's Church
• Isaac Gossett, Founder of St Mary's School
• Manor House Occupants' Tombstones
• Manor House, Thomas Brinley Royal Auditor
• Thomas Brinley, Datchet to Long Island NY
• The Working Men's Club (now Library)
• Datchet in Fiction: Three Men in a Boat 
• Strange Events in 1793 (The Bridge)
• Ladies in the Building Trades; the Bidwells
• Radio & Space Research at Ditton Park
• Southlea Farm & its 'Monastery Walls'
• Early Motor Cars in Datchet
• Mrs Crake of the Lawn; a Victorian family network