Dorney
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General
At the time of the Domesday Book the village of Dorney was called Dornei. Its age predates the Norman Conquest as the name is derived from Old English and means ‘Bumblebee Island'. In the 2001 Census the parish population was 713.
To the northwest of Dorney, at Maidenhead, the river Thames splits to form the Thames and Jubilee rivers. These recombine to the east of Dorney near Windsor Castle. This effectively surrounds Dorney with water which was especially true when the rivers flooded and Dorney really did become an island.
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The Chauntry
The Chauntry was once the farm house of Burnham Abbey but is now a private residence. It was there that a horrifying murder took place in 1853. The owner of the farm had returned one night to discover blood stains in the hall. He searched the house and found the body of his housekeeper upstairs. She had been battered to death. The groom, Hatto, was arrested, tried and duly hung for the murder which had taken place after a disagreement. Since that time the house was said to be haunted.
The map given below is for the centre of Dorney as we can not find The Chauntry in Dorney. Oddly enough there was a Chauntry House Hotel in Bray on Thames which is just less than three kilometres from Dorney but it is in Berkshire.
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Dorney Court
At one time a bedroom in Dorney Court was reported to have been haunted by a ghostly grey lady. This haunted no longer continues as the ghost was successfully exorcised many years ago.
Dorney Court is a well preserved Tudor manor house standing on a site which has seen habitation since before the Norman Conquest. The present building dates from 1510 and was acquired by Sir James Palmer in 1600 and has remained in the family ever since.
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