In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sunninghill like this:
SUNNINGHILL, a village and a parish in Windsor district, Berks. The village stands near the Staines and Reading railway, 10 miles WSW of Staines; is a straggling-place; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office‡ under Staines. The parish includes parts of Cranbourne and Sunningdale chapelries, contains Ascot racecourse, and comprises 3,173 acres. ...
Real property, £10,490. Pop. in 1851, 1,350; in 1861, 1,596. Houses, 314. The property is much subdivided. S. Park, Silwood Park, Titnest Park, and Harewood Lodge are chief residenccs There is a mineral spring. A small Benedictine nunnery was at Bromhall. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £328.* Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church was rebuilt in 1828. There are a Methodist chapel, and an endowed school with £22 a year.
Sunninghill through time
Sunninghill is now part of Windsor and Maidenhead district. Click here for graphs and data of how Windsor and Maidenhead has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sunninghill itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sunninghill, in Windsor and Maidenhead and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1464
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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