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Welcome to the Cox Green Local History Group Homepage.
The Cox Green Local History Group are a small group of amateur local historians
from Cox Green just outside Maidenhead, Berkshire, England.
The group research and publish booklets about the areas varied history from the
Romans and Tudors to World War II and the world beating Vanwall F1 car
of the 1950's.
The group also display material at events held at the Cox Green Community Centre
such as the May Day Fayre and the Horticultural and Craft Show.
The groups booklets are available at these shows as well as from the centre office.
We also hope to be able to supply the booklets via mail order soon.
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A Twenty Year Explosion
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A Voice for the Village
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Check out the
Groups Publications
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Pictures of some of
Cox Greens History
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On This Site
Pictures of Cox Greens History
Now including videos
Find out about the groups publications
Contact the History Group
Features Pages
information on a specific part of our Local History
updated every few months
A Twenty Year Explosion
Doreen Wright takes a look at development between 1960 & 1980.
A Voice for the Village
Councillor Alan Doman looks at the formation of the Parish Council
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Contact the
History Group
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To the visitor or newcomer Cox Green appears to be yet another group of housing estates on the outskirts of a commuter town. A short walk around Cox Green and Woodlands Park however begins to unveil a few clues to the areas rural and historical past. The first known building to be built in Cox Green was a singular rectangular farmhouse around 25 metres long by 7 metres wide. Dating from around A.D. 150. The Romano-British farm expanded and survived until about A.D. 450. By the end of its life the farm had grown considerably in size and features including under floor heating and baths.
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The Cox Green Roman Farm
Circa A.D. 400
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While there may have been small shepherds or woodsman’s huts in the area
Following the demise of the Roman farm, it isn’t until 1267 that the next evidence of habitation in Cox Green surfaces. A small piece of land was taken out the Royal
Forest of Windsor and given to Queen Eleanor's cook Richard le Norreys named
Ocholt or the hall in the oak wood the family built a much larger house on the site in
the 1400's which still stands today and is known as Ockwells Manor.
Cox Green grew slowly over the next 400 years to become a typically sized English rural village. In the mid 1700's the village consisted of buildings in the roads now named Lock Lane, Cox Green Lane (between Lock Lane and Cox Green Road,) Cox Green Road (which extended to where the railway bridge stands in Norden Road,) Ockwells Road and Kimbers Lane. Like the rest of England the rural economy of the village started to change during the 1800's but although the populations employment changed the population continued to grow slowly so by 1900 the village had grown with buildings now extending further along Cox Green Lane Curls Lane and Highfield Lane. The arrival of the railway also gave Cox Green its first boundary. Cox Greens population and buildings then stayed at a steady level until the period following W.W.II when the Larchfield estate was started. The last half of the 20th century saw an explosion of building in the area which has now virtually joined Cox Green, Woodlands Park and Altwood not just together but to Maidenhead as well.
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Excarvation of The Roman Farm
in Northumbria Road
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