Cookham's population is 5,519.
Cookham Abbey was created in 726.
Cookham Bridge was created in 1867.
Cookham railway station was created in 1854.
The village of Cookham Dene, England.
Helen Ferrers was born in 1869, in Cookham, Berkshire, England, UK.
Farren Soutar died on January 23, 1962, in Cookham, England, UK.
Emma Style died on December 17, 2012, in Cookham, England, UK.
Walter West was born on September 11, 1885, in Cookham, Berkshire, England, UK.
Jessica Brown Findlay was born on September 14, 1989, in Cookham, Berkshire, England, UK.
Don Stannard died on July 9, 1949, in Cookham Dean, Berkshire, England, UK of car accident.
Birth nameStanley SpencerBorn30 June 1891(1891-06-30) Cookham, EnglandDied14 December 1959(1959-12-14) (aged 68) Cliveden, Buckinghamshire EnglandNationalityEnglishFieldPaintingTrainingMaidenhead Technical Institute; The SladeWorksThe Resurrection, CookhamPatronsLouis and Mary BehrendAwardsKnighted in 1959 Sir Stanley Spencer (30 June 1891 - 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Much of his greatest work depicts Biblical scenes, from miracles to Crucifixion, happening not in the Holy Land but in the small Thames-side village where he was born and spent most of his life. He referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven." Fellow-villagers frequently stand in for their Gospel counterparts, lending on occasion Christian teachings an eerie immediacy. Spencer was born and spent much of his life in Cookham in Berkshire. His father, William Spencer, was a music teacher. His younger brother, Gilbert Spencer (1892-1979), was a talented painter of landscapes. From 1908 to 1912, Spencer studied at the Slade School of Art at University College, London under Henry Tonks and others. His contemporaries at the Slade included Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Isaac Rosenberg and David Bomberg.[1] So profound was his attachment to the village of his birth that most days he would take the train back home in time for tea. It even became his nickname: his fellow student C.R.W. Nevinson dubbed him Cookham, a name which Spencer himself took to using for a time.
Luke Over has written: 'Ordnance Survey Historical Guides' 'Maidenhead' -- subject(s): Pictorial works, History 'Villages around Maidenhead' -- subject(s): History, Villages 'The story of Maidenhead' -- subject(s): History 'The Royal Hundred of Cookham' -- subject(s): History