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The antiquary John Leland claimed that the area around Maidenhead's present town centre was a small Roman settlement called Alaunodunum. [2] He stated that it had all but disappeared by the end of the Roman occupation. Although his source is unknown, there is documented and physical evidence of Roman settlement in the town.
Maidenhead Heritage Centre is a heritage centre and museum in the town of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. [1] Maidenhead Heritage Centre and Museum was founded in 1993. The centre presents the history of Maidenhead history from Roman times to the present. [2] It collects and preserves artefacts, photographs, documents, and sound recordings, to ...
It was the meeting place of Maidenhead Borough Council until 1974 when it became the headquarters of the enlarged Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council. [11] The town hall was extensively refurbished, to a design by McBains Cooper, at a cost of £1.6 million, in 2014, [ 12 ] and proposals for the refurbishment of the Desborough Suite, a cost ...
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is a unitary authority area with royal borough status in Berkshire, England. The borough is named after its two largest towns of Maidenhead (where the council is based) and Windsor. The borough also includes the towns of Ascot and Eton, plus numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
The Maidenhead Waterways Group (MW) had been founded in 2006, and became a charity and private company limited by guarantee in March 2007, [3] with the aim of restoring the waterways to a navigable standard, allowing boats to travel into and around the town centre 'Ring'. A lock and weir at Green Lane was to raise and stabilize water levels in ...
Boulter's Lock is a lock and weir on the River Thames in England north-east of Maidenhead town centre, Berkshire.The present 1912-built lock replaces those at this point of the river to the immediate east dating from the late 16th century and that of 1772 built by the Thames Navigation Commission.
Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council is the local authority for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, a local government district in Berkshire, England. Since 1998, the council has been a unitary authority , being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council .
Maidenhead is a constituency [n 1] in Berkshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Joshua Reynolds, a Liberal Democrat, since 2024. Following its creation at the 1997 general election , the seat was held for twenty-seven years by Conservative Member of Parliament Theresa May , who served as Home ...