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The Mount, Cookham Dean

Grade II listed buildings in BerkshireUse British English from April 2024

The Mount is a country house in Cookham Dean, Berkshire, England. It was originally built as a hunting lodge in the 16th century and subsequently extended in the late 19th century so that it now has three floors, four reception rooms, twelve bedrooms and four bathrooms. It is on a plot of 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) on high ground overlooking the Thames river. It was listed for protection as Grade II on 21 September 1987. The author Kenneth Grahame lived here as a child after his mother died when he was five. The house belonged to his maternal grandmother, Mary Inglis, and he lived there for two years with her and his uncle, David, who was the curate of the parish church. The locality was influential in the creation of his writing such as The Wind in the Willows. Other famous people associated with the house include Sir Stanley Spencer, who painted a picture of it.

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Bisham Woods
Bisham Woods

Bisham Woods is an 86-hectare (210-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) west of Cookham in Berkshire. The site is also a Local Nature Reserve and part of Chilterns Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation. The SSSI is part of a 153.2-hectare (379-acre) site, also called Bisham Woods, which has been owned and managed by the Woodland Trust since 1990.The woods consist of several sections. The northern part is the ancient woodland SSSI, with compartments known as Quarry Wood, Fultness Wood, High Wood and Inkydown Wood. With the River Thames just to the north, and views across the Chiltern Hills, they include beechwoods, with rare woodland orchids. The remaining compartments, including Park Wood, High Wood, Goulding's Wood, Carpenters Wood and Dungrovehill Wood, are areas of 19th- and 20th-century planting noted for bluebells. These are nearer Maidenhead, near the A308 and A404. The woods are open to the public, and are well served with paths and bridleways, with parking nearby.Quarry Wood is the site of Bisham Quarry, an important medieval source of stone, much of which was used to build Windsor Castle. From medieval times the woods were part of the extensive Bisham Estates of the Earls of Salisbury. An ice house, built in the 1760s to provide ice for Bisham Abbey, is within the woods, and opened to the public four times a year. The woods are the original 'Wild Wood' in Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows, which he wrote in the nearby village of Cookham Dean. Percy Bysshe Shelley composed The Revolt of Islam in the area of Bisham Woods in 1817 when he was living at Marlow.A memorial in Carpenters Wood commemorates the crash site of a Halifax Bomber from the Royal Air Force 578 Squadron, on 18 July 1944. The memorial was dedicated on 18 July 1998.