About Finchampstead
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Like many villages in this area Finchamstead has a long history going back centuries. Warren Wood, an area of secondary birch oak and pine woodland and a large meadow, between Nine Mile Ride and Warren Lane, contains a scheduled ancient monument, a round burial mound, which is the largest example of a bell barrow in Berkshire and dates back to between 2000 and 1300 BC. Trees have been removed from the mound in recent years as their roots can damage archaeological remains and paths have been rerouted around the mound.
St. James' Church stands on the top of a prominent hill and has an old Roman earthwork surrounding it. It was probably the site of a pagan temple. The Roman Road from London to Silchester, called the 'Devils Highway', ran through the middle of the parish and a Roman milestone survives at Banisters.
Finchampsteads Anglo-Saxon name is said to have derived from the large variety of finches that still populate the area. It is referred to by the younger generation as 'Finch'. St. Oswald apparently visited the village in the 7th century and named the local holy well, which is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon to have flowed with blood in times of National crisis.
Finchampstead is a richly wooded area on the western edge of old Winsor Forest and once the centre of one of its divisional 'walkers' and 'bailiwicks'. It was the hunting place of Royalty and an old tale tells how King Henry 7th brought his son, Prince Arthur, out onto the Ridges to see his bride, Catherine of Aragon, for the first time. His other son, Henry 8th, , is said to have wooed two sisters at East Court Manor until one committed suicide in a fit of jealousy.
The Wellingtonia Avenue was planted in Finchampstead as a monument to the 1st Duke of Wellington in 1869. He lived in nearby Stratfield Saye.