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Parish Clerk
Highways and Engineering Newsletter
Week Commencing 25th March
Windsor Rural
Wards Datchet, Horton, Wraysbury, Old Windsor
Parishes Datchet, Horton, Wraysbury, Old Windsor
Windsor Road, Wraysbury – carriageway patching – Wednesday 27th March
For further information about the RBWM resurfacing programme please visit http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/transport_resurfacing.htm
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Neighbourhood Plan Area
Following submission of our Neighbourhood Plan Area application, a statutory 6 week consultation is currently underway to invite representations on the application from anyone living or working in the area. The application can be viewed at
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Broadband in Berkshire
Help make slow broadband a thing of the past. Just 5 minutes of your time could make a big difference. By registering your support it will SHOW SUPPLIERS THERE IS A DEMAND FOR FASTER BROADBAND IN BERKSHIRE and IMPROVE BERKSHIRE'S PROSPECTS FOR HIGHER BROADBAND INVESTMENT BY SUPPLIERS.
Show your support by registering online at: www.superfastberkshire.org.uk
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Highways Engineering Works
Flood alleviation & drainage improvement will be carried out in Datchet Road, Horton from Monday 19th November 2012 to Friday 1st February 2013. Some of this work could be weather dependent and rely on unhindered access. It is aimed to keep changes to a minimum but dates are subject to change. For further details please visit www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/transport_resurfacing.htm
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Links on Further Help Page
Two new links have been included in the Further Help page to the Aviation Forum and Flood Liaison Forum. You can find the minutes for recent meetings and agendas for future meetings.
RSS feed for this siteAbout the Parish of Wraysbury
The Parish of Wraysbury sits on the east-most boundary of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It has an illustrious history stretching back at least to the days of the Domesday book. One of its claims to fame is the fact that the Magna Carta was signed within its boundaries in 1215. Runnymede also lays claim to this honour because the Magna Carta was apparently signed on an island in the middle of the Thames, but as King John arrived from the North Bank and only the Barons approached from the Runnymede side, Wraysbury should take precedence!
Wraysbury is a long, thin village, being a centre with village green, village hall and other facilities and three spurs of about a mile and a half each, stretching along the north bank of the Thames. It is surrounded by reservoirs and exhausted gravel pits, some of which, along with their surrounds, have SSSI status (Site of Special Scientific Interest) or similar.
Almost all of Wraysbury is just outside the M25, except for the half mile or so of Wraysbury Road leading to Lammas Park which is just inside the M25 at Junction 13. Indeed there can be only a couple of hundred yards of the Motorway inside the village boundaries.
To the North are Datchet and Horton, and to the South is Staines.
It is primarily a dormitory village now, with a population around three thousand many of whom work at the nearby Heathrow Airport or the large towns around such as Windsor, Slough and Staines. Less than one percent of the population work in agriculture now, according to the 1991 census.
The village boasts a modern village hall which hosts a considerable number of clubs and functions, active bowls, tennis, cricket and football clubs and scout and guide facilities for the younger members of the community. The lakes also host a number of water sports, from fishing, through sailing to diving.