Windlesham is a large village close to the Berkshire border. It is close to the A30, M3, M4 and to Sunningdale Station.
It was originally part of Windsor Forest and the haunt of highwaymen. It is now essentially a commuter village. Windlesham manor originally belonged to the Priory of St Margaret, a house for Benedictine nuns, in Sunninghill, Berkshire, and documents survive from 1318.
The parish church of St.John the Baptist was rebuilt in 1680 after a fire and was originally a medieval building from the 12th century. The church of St.Saviour at Valley End was built in 1867 by G.F. Bodley.
A large modern house, Updown Court, is amongst the most expensive houses in the world, currently (2007) on the market for £70m, with 103 rooms and 58 acres of land. It was originally built in 1924.
Windlesham Manor was built in 1915 and was at one time home to Princess Elizabeth before she became queen.
Windlesham village, 1909
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection
At Windlesham Brickfield, brick pits are shown on the OS map of 1872. There are now ornamental ponds on the site, which may originally have been the clay quarries.
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