Description
Waltham, White, a parish in Berks, 3 miles SW of Maidenhead station on the G.W.R., and 7 W of Windsor. It was formerly called Bury Town, and it includes Waltham Abbotts. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Maidenhead. Acreage, 2643; population of the civil parish, 859; of the ecclesiastical, with Shottesbrook, 1043. White Waltham Place is a fine mansion situated on an eminence in a well-timbered park of 108 acres. Roman. coins, tiles, and other relics have been found. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Shottesbrook. The church, with the exception of the chancel and mortuary chapel, was rebuilt in 1868. Hearne the antiquary was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
