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Cookham
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Cookham is a historic Thames-side village and civil parish on the north-eastern edge of Berkshire, England, north-north-east of Maidenhead and opposite the village of Bourne End. Cookham forms the southernmost and most rural part of the High Wycombe urban area. With adjoining Cookham Rise and Cookham Dean, it had a combined population of 5,779 at the 2011 Census. In 2011, The Daily Telegraph deemed Cookham Britain's second richest village.
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- Locality
- Cookham Rise
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 5,422
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Cookham church,berkshire.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Holy Trinity parish church
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.type
- Village and civil parish
- UK place.official_name
- Cookham
- UK place.population
- 5,779
- UK place.population_ref
- United Kingdom Census 2011
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Berkshire
- UK place.civil_parish
- Cookham
- UK place.unitary_england
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Maidenhead
- UK place.post_town
- Maidenhead
- UK place.postcode_district
- SL6
- UK place.postcode_area
- SL
- UK place.dial_code
- 01628
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SU895855
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 5779
- Image
- Cookham church,berkshire.JPG
- Dialing code
- 01628
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- Commons category
- Cookham
- postal code
- SL6
- OS grid reference
- SU895855
- P12749
- Herman III of Swabia
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- Town twinning
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- Sources
- External links
Cookham is a historic Thames-side village and civil parish on the north-eastern edge of Berkshire, England, north-north-east of Maidenhead and opposite the village of Bourne End. Cookham forms the southernmost and most rural part of the High Wycombe urban area. With adjoining Cookham Rise and Cookham Dean, it had a combined population of 5,779 at the 2011 Census. In 2011, The Daily Telegraph deemed Cookham Britain's second richest village.
==Toponymy== It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cocheham. The name may be from the Old English cōc + hām, meaning 'cook village', i.e. 'village noted for its cooks', although the first element may be derived from the Old English cōc(e) meaning 'hill'.
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