An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Old Windsor

 

OLD WINDSOR

"OLD WINDSOR, a parish in the hundred of Ripplesmere, county Berks, also containing places in the county of Surrey; 2 miles S.E. of New Windsor, 22½ from Egham, and 2 from Datchet. It is situated on the river Thames, and includes the hamlet of Sunningdale and part of Virginia Water. The village, which has the union poor-house, may be considered a suburb of New Windsor [which see]. The principal seats are Beaumont, once the residence of Warren Hastings; Moat Farm, occupying the site of a hunting-seat of the Saxon kings, at which Earl Godwin is said to have died; Sunning Hall, and Corvath. Above two-thirds of the surface are comprehended in Windsor Great Park.

The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Oxford, value £250, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There are besides the district church of the Holy Trinity at Sunningdale, built in 1840, and the royal chapel, built by George IV. in the Great Park for the accommodation of the tenantry and keepers connected with the royal demesnes. The Independents have chapels at Old Windsor and Sunningdale. There are National and industrial schools, partly supported by bequests of Lady Onslow and Mrs. Harmesley. The Rev. G. Isherwood is lord of the manor. A pleasure fair is held annually.

"SUNNINGDALE, an ecclesiastical district in the parish of Old Windsor, county Surrey, 3 miles S.E. of Windsor. It is a station on the Staines and Reading branch of the London and South-Western railway. The village is situated near the Thames, on the Roman way from Staines.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Oxford, value £75, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
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