The village of Burchetts Green is located about four miles west of Maidenhead. The road through the village was constructed by Lord Salisbury to avoid highwaymen at Maidenhead Thicket, as he journeyed from his home at Hatfield to Bath. The milestones on this stretch of road give the distances between his two houses. The village houses date variously from medieval times through to Victorian agricultural workers cottages and more modern . Historically many local people were employed at Hall Place, the local mansion on the outskirts of the village, but now residents commute to such places as Reading and London.
The Green itself is covered in trees. The ecclesiastical Parish of Burchetts Green is a combined benefice, incorporating the churches at Hurley, Stubbings and Littlewick Green and has a different boundary to the Civil Parish.
Burchetts Green has one Public House, The Crown, now also a restaurant, the other pub, The Greyhound, having been converted into a house in the 1980s. The local preservation society is the Burchetts Green Village Association. Hall Place is now the Berkshire Agricultural College (right) which has a wide range of courses. Burchetts Green CE Infants School takes children up to 7 years old.
Hall Place Park and Garden. A late 17th century landscape park with 18th, 19th and 20th century modifications and additions, surrounding an early Georgian house on the site of a 13th century manor house.
The Conservation Area Appraisal for Burchetts Green issued by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is a useful source of historical and conservation information read here>>
A map showing the boundary of the Conservation Area within Burchetts Green is available here>>.