Pinkneys Green

Pinkneys Green is a village within the north-western bounds of the town of Maidenhead in the English county of Berkshire. thumbLocationPinkneys Green is located at, just north-east of the A404 road and north-west of Highway. Stubbings is to the west and Bisham and Cookham Dean some way to the north.HistoryEstablished as a hamlet circa 1650, it became known as Pinkneys Green by the early 1700s, although it is unclear whether the name derives specifically from Ghilo de Pinkney, a Norman knight who supported William the Conqueror, or in reference to the Pinkney family as a whole. This prominent family, whose main estates were in Northamptonshire, owned the original manor of Pinkneys Court, then in the parish of Cookham, from the 12th to the 15th century.The wooded Maidenhead Thicket, also owned by the National Trust, is at Pinkneys Green. The banks and ditches of a small Iron Age farmstead, called 'Robin Hood's Arbour' may be seen there. The Thicket was originally a much larger area of wilderness, famous as the haunt of highwaymen in the 17th and 18th centuries. Maidenhead's coaching inns grew rich on the travellers' fear of crossing the Thicket at night.