Cox Green, Berkshire


Cox Green is a civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire. It is a large suburb of Maidenhead with most of its housing west of the A404 Maidenhead bypass and south of the A4 road. The remainder of this area is rural. The parish has an urban boundary with Woodlands Park to the southwest and a rural boundary with White Waltham parish to the west.

History

The original village was ecclesiastically a hamlet under Bray church that had a nucleus by Cox Green Lane, Cox Green Road and Norden Road, south of the railway. Parts of this are now outside the current parish boundary. The second half of the 20th Century saw a rapid expansion of housing, including Woodlands Park to the west, and Cox Green is now part of the wider urban area of Maidenhead.

Geography

Cox Green has a site of Special Scientific Interest on the South border of the village, called Great Thrift Wood

Amenities and listed buildings

Schools in the area include Lowbrook School and Wessex Primary School, both catering for ages up to eleven Year 6 and Cox Green School, for children aged 11–18. Cox Green School shares a site with the adjacent Community Centre on Highfield Road, providing such local facilities as a library and both indoor and outdoor sports facilities. Additional leisure facilities exist at Ockwells Park, where as well as sports fields, an open park and a local nature reserve, there is a well-stocked outdoor children's play area, and an indoor soft-play area and cafe.
The parish church, Church of the Good Shepherd, is in the Community Centre in Highfield Road.
The oldest building in the parish is Ockwells Manor by Ockwells park which once belonged to it.
A Roman Villa was discovered from aerial photographs in the 1950s and was fully excavated in 1959 in advance of the building of the present housing estate.

Nearest places

3 miles,
Reading, Berkshire 12 miles,
Windsor 8 miles