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3 unusual facts about Maidenhead


Maidenhead Regatta

Maidenhead Regatta is a rowing regatta in England which takes place in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

Manor Green School

Manor Green School is a day special school located in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England.

Patrick Mendy

Patrick Mendy (born September 26, 1990) is an Gambian professional boxer who was born in Gambia and currently lives in Maidenhead.


A Maidenhead Well Lost

A Pleasant Comedy, called A Maidenhead Well Lost is a dark comedy set in Italy; it was written and published by Thomas Heywood in 1634 and performed at The Cockpit by Queen Henrietta's Men in that same year.

Bruce Eddis

Bruce Lindsay Eddis (born 17 August 1883 in Calcutta, Bengal, India; died 12 May 1966 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England was an English cricketer.

Courtney Buses

The company also runs park & ride services in Windsor and Basingstoke, and contracts to Milton Park, Maidenhead Office Park and Foundation Park, plus a contract for Sony in Basingstoke.

Huntercombe

On the Burnham side of the area, it includes the Maidenhead Huntercombe Hospital (formerly Huntercombe Manor) which is part of The Huntercombe Group, and Burnham Abbey.

Isaac Pocock

Pocock died at Ray Lodge, Maidenhead, on 23 August 1835, and was buried in the family vault at Cookham.

Kate Lee

In 1900 however, she became ill with cancer, of which she died at Stubbings near Maidenhead in 1904.

M4 Thames Bridge

The M4 Thames Bridge Maidenhead is a motorway bridge between Dorney Reach, Buckinghamshire and Bray near Maidenhead, Berkshire in England built in the 1960s.

Maidenhead Locator System

Perl supports conversion between geographical coordinates and Maidenhead locators in module Ham::Locator by Andy Smith, available on CPAN.

Maidenhead locators are used as part of the formulas for scoring in many VHF amateur radio contests.

Marlow railway station

When this service was withdrawn north of Bourne End in 1970, Marlow station became the terminus of the Marlow Branch Line which leaves the main Great Western Main Line at Maidenhead.

Nicholas Pocock

He died on 9 March 1821 at the home of his oldest son, Isaac, in Raymead in the parish of Cookham, near Maidenhead, and is buried in the parish church there.

Pony Turf Club

In 1947 after a lapse of nearly seven years PTC racing re-started at the former National Hunt racecourses at Hawthorn Hill, Maidenhead, Berkshire and Shirley in the West Midlands.

St Luke's Church, Maidenhead

The church remains the largest church in Maidenhead, and as a result has been used for the recording of Songs of Praise on a couple of occasions.

Three-volume novel

Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1889), Chapter XII ("The London Journal duke always has his “little place” at Maidenhead; and the heroine of the three-volume novel always dines there when she goes out on the spree with somebody else’s husband.").

Toby Cruse

In 2012, for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Cruse reformed and conducted the British Sinfonia for a concert in his hometown of Maidenhead, Berkshire.


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