Remenham History

Thank you to all our contributors, who help to ensure that our history pages are constantly being updated with interesting articles and photographs. 

We are particularly delighted with the aerial photographs, below, but any historic photographs are of interest - especially from our parishioners.  

Maybe you have an interesting story or photograph from Remenham’s past.  If so, we’d love to see it, so please don’t hesitate to send it in.  The more the merrier!

Our contact address is hello@remenhamparish.org.uk. 

This is a low res version of a 1914 map of Remenham Hill 

Aerial Photographs of Remenham in 1923, 1947 & 1952 (courtesy of Historic England [EAW044548 ENGLAND (1952).  Remenham, the Henley Royal Regatta in progress and the town, 1952]).

Aerial Photographs of Remenham and Aston in 1923-1952 (courtesy of Historic England [EAW044548 ENGLAND (1952)]): eights racing at HRR in 1923, Remenham surroundings (x2) in 1952, HRR (x4) in 1952 and Aston surroundings in 1947.

These images are subject to copyright and owned by Historic England.

We are starting  to compile a comprehensive history of the parish.

Jim Bland, a long-time resident has kindly given us a map that he has drawn up of Archaeological Finds in Remenham. See the pdf as follows:

More contributions from Jim:

We have also been given an extract from the 1850's Gazetteer:

This is a very small start so please do send us what you can and we will include on the site.  Please contact hello@remenhamparish.org.uk.