Eton Wick
Eton Wick | |
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Parish Church of St John the Baptist | |
Location within Berkshire | |
OS grid reference | SU945785 |
Civil parish | |
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Windsor |
Postcode district | SL4 |
Dialling code | 01753 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Royal Berkshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Eton Wick is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Eton, in the Windsor and Maidenhead district, in Berkshire, England (historically Buckinghamshire),[1] on the River Thames, close to the historic towns of Windsor and Eton, Slough and Dorney Lake, the rowing venue for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
History
After the construction of Eton College in the 15th century, a small group of houses were built immediately west to the college grounds. Making up the homes of shoemakers, tailors, and other workers who worked in the college, the hamlet was physically separated from the rest of Eton by land owned by the college, and was known as the wick.[2] The wick was on the very edge of the parish, on the opposite side of the border adjacent to the village; cottages were built to house farmhands working at nearby Bell Farm. Throughout the 19th century, scholars at Eton College took a personal interest in the village. Building a village hall and a small school in the village, the college was traditionally responsible for the social well-being of the settlement.[2] The village grew rapidly between the 1880s and the 2000s.[3][4]
In 1880, the owner of Bell Farm, Charles Dorney, sold some of his land for residential building. The new village was called Boveney New Town. After the Civil Parish Act 1894, the Wick was transferred from
Transport
Eton Wick shares its major transport facilities with Slough, as the route to Windsor by road is circuitous. The
Local rivers
As it flows from Boveney to Windsor, the
Politics
The village is part of the
Civil parish
In 1931 the parish had a population of 506.[8] The parish was formed in 1894 from the rural part of the parish of Eton, on 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with Eton.[9]
Sport and leisure
Eton Wick has a local football team, Eton Wick F.C., that plays at Hayward's Mead.
See also
References
- ^ "Great Britain and Ireland - interactive county map".
- ^ a b "Eton Wick & Boveney", Welcome to Maidenhead
- ^ a b "Old maps of Britain and Europe". A Vision of Britain Through Time. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- "Old Ordnance Survey Maps". Ponies.me.uk. 22 February 1999. Retrieved 18 September 2012. - ^ "Old maps of Britain and Europe". Vision of Britain Through Time. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- "Get-a-map". Ordnance Survey. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2012. - ^ a b "Eton Wick History". Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
- ^ "Eton Wick: Confluence of Roundmoor Ditch with Cress Brook:: OS grid SU9478 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square!". Geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ http://streetmap.co.uk/grid/494535_178495_120
- http://streetmap.co.uk/grid/494535_178495_106 - A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
- ^ "Eton Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
Sources
- Page, W.H., eds. (1923). A History of the County of Buckingham, Volume 3. Victoria County History. pp. 261–275.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 132–133.
External links
Media related to Eton Wick at Wikimedia Commons