Bray, Berkshire
Bray | |
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Village and civil parish | |
St Michael's Church | |
Location within Berkshire | |
Population | 8,425 (2001) 9,110 (2011 Census including Burchett Green, Hawthorn Hill, Oakley Hill and Paley Street)[1] |
OS grid reference | SU9079 |
Civil parish |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | MAIDENHEAD |
Postcode district | SL6 |
Dialling code | 01628 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Royal Berkshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Bray, occasionally Bray on Thames, is a suburban village and
Geography
The civil
Exclusive houses on the river between Bray and
History
The first documented mention of Bray was as Brai in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Governance
Since the redistribution of parliamentary boundaries, which took effect at the 2010 general election, Bray has been in Maidenhead, the parliamentary constituency of former Prime Minister Theresa May. In terms of local government, it is in the Bray electoral ward of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
Amenities
Restaurants
Bray contains two of the eight three-
Transport
Bray sits on the banks of the
Notable buildings
Parish church
The
Almshouses
The Jesus Hospital is a red-brick group of
Notable people
- Lady Penelope
- Ian Bairnson (1953–2023) – Scottish musician
- The Hinds Head Hotelrestaurants in Bray
- Rolf Harris (1930–2023) – Australian artist, musician, TV presenter[13][14][15]
- Carol Kirkwood (born 1962) – BBC weather presenter lives here
- George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892–1938) – buried in Bray Cemetery
- Sir Michael Parkinson (1935–2023) – journalist and TV presenter
- Laurie Holloway (born 1938) – pianist and composer
- Tony Prince (born 1944) – disc jockey
- Regenbald - Chancellor of King Edward the Confessor and King William the Conqueror, was vicar of Bray[16]
Literature
The village features as the home of the eponymous "The Vicar of Bray" in a satirical 18th-century song of that name. The titular character frequently changed his religious principles in order to remain in office throughout various reforming upheavals in the English church. The story was turned into an opera in 1882 and a film in 1937.
Edward Lear makes reference to Bray in More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc:[17]
"There was an old person of Bray,
Who sang through the whole of the day
To his ducks and his pigs,
Whom he fed upon figs,
That valuable person of Bray."
Nearest places
References
- ^ a b "Civil Parish 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Windsor and Maidenhead" Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 3 November 2010
- ^ Monkey Island Hotel Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1319431)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^ The Church of England "A Church Near You".
- ^ "The Michelin Guide". Retrieved 10 October 2021.
- ^ "The Fat Duck (Awards section)". Fatduck.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 September 2005. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ Kates, Joanne, The Globe and Mail (11 February 2006). The mad, magic chemistry of England's Fat Duck
- ^ "Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck tops Good Food Guide again". BBC. 11 August 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ Kapur, Sonia (20 May 2010). "Waterside Inn celebrates 25yrs of three-star quality". Maidenhead Advertiser. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012.
- ^ England (1849). The ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England. Bedfordshire (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk). p. 59. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ISBN 978-0-521-86723-8. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ^ "Fat Duck website". Fatduck.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 September 2005. Retrieved 14 December 2008.
- ^ "Rolf Harris and Val Doonican: Old pals reunite (From Bucks Free Press)". Bucksfreepress.co.uk. 31 October 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Rolf Harris guilty of indecent assaults". BBC News. 30 June 2014.
- ^ "Rolf Harris jailed for five years and nine months". BBC News. 4 July 2014.
- ^ Keynes, Simon. "Regenbald the Chancellor (sic)". Anglo-Norman Studies. X: 222.
- ^ Lear, Edward (1872). More Nonsense. Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc. London: Robert J. Bush.