A dig by archaeologists, on the banks of the River Thames, has revealed evidence of what could have been Britain's first hospital. Until now, the idea of providing care outside the home for the sick ...

Cookham is a village and civil parish in the north-easternmost corner of Berkshire in England, on the River Thames, notable as the home of the artist Stanley Spencer Cookham is a village and civil ...

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One of Stanley Spencer's formative experiences, growing up in Cookham, was being taken by his mother to the comfortable, cosy Wesleyan chapel along the village street. One by one, the familiar, ...

Cookham – a historic and picturesque village on the Thames near London – is holding its long-awaited festival in May. The organizers promise a feast of music, drama, talks, comedy, workshops, ...

A large communal building, timber-lined well and cemetery include some of the discoveries made by archaeologists at an 8th–9th-century monastery in Cookham, Berkshire. Staff and students from the ...

The walk starts from the appealing village of Cookham in Berkshire and follows the Thames for a couple of miles. Climbing a short distance up Winter Hill you are rewarded with distant views across the ...

A road in Cookham will remain closed until late August as gas works take place ...

Archaeologists have discovered a long-lost royal site that played a key part in the rise of London as England’s dominant political and economic centre. Excavations in Berkshire are revealing how ...