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Datchet, Buckinghamshire

Historical Description

Datchet or Datchet St Helen's, a parish in Bucks, on the river Thames and on the Windsor branch of the L. & S.W.R., 2 miles E of Windsor. It has a station en the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Windsor. Acreage, 1387; population, 1582. Two bridges, called the Victoria and the Albert, the former a neat iron structure, give communication across the Thames. Datchet Mead was the scene of Falstaff's punishment in the " Merry Wives of Windsor." A fishing-house of Sir H. Wotton, called " Black Pots," yearly visited hy Isaak Walton, stood on the Thames at Datchet, and was succeeded by a summer-house of the painter Verrio. Anglers from old times till the present have loved to fish here, and Pope says respecting Charles II.-" Methinks I see our mighty monarch stand, The pliant rod now trembling in his hand; And see, he now doth up from Datchet come, Laden with spoils of slaughter'd gudgeons home." The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £288 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons <9f Windsor. The church was rebuilt in 1860, and is in the Decorated style. There are a Baptist chapel, a working men's club, opened in 1881 and enlarged in 1888, and some useful charities.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyBuckinghamshire 
Ecclesiastical parishDatchet St. Mary 
HundredStoke 
Poor Law unionEton 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1559.


Churches

Church of England

St. Mary (parish church)

The parish church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the Decorated style, and was rebuilt on an enlarged plan on the former site in 1857-60; it consists of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch, north transept (recently converted into the sanctuary of a side chapel) and an octagonal tower with spire on the east side of the north transept and containing a clock and 5 bells: all the windows are stained, three being memorials to H.R.H. the Prince Consort: there is a brass to Katherine Lady Berkeley, ob. 1559, and one to Richard Hanbery, 1593, and Ales, his wife, with kneeling effigies: an oak reredos was erected in 1906 as a memorial to the Rev. Canon J. H. Thompson, vicar 1868-1902: there are 650 sittings. In the churchyard is a Celtic cross erected by the women of this parish in memory of Datchet men who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Datchet was in Eton Registration District from 1837 to 1974


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Datchet from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Datchet are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Buckinghamshire papers online:


Visitations Heraldic

A full transcript of the Visitation of Buckinghamshire, 1634 is online

CountyWindsor and Maidenhead
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtSL3
Post TownSlough

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