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Bisham, Abbey And All Saints Church 1890
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More about this scene

Moving further downstream towards Marlow, we reach Bisham on the Berkshire side, seen here from the towpath just beyond Marlow's Higginson Park. The tower is the chief glory of the chalkstone church, dating from about 1170. The rest of the church has been heavily restored, if not rebuilt, apart from the Tudor Hoby Chapel which contains some excellent monuments. To the right looms Bisham Abbey, while ladies row themselves gently upstream on a gentle Summer's day.

A Selection of Memories from Bisham

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Bisham

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My paternal grandmother, Kate Paine Whitbourn, was born in these cottages in 1896.  Her father was the head carpenter at Bisham Abbey. The Paine family had lived in Bisham for several generations. When I was little, Gran and I would visit the kirk and 'water' her grandad.  He was a great cricketer. We would stop at the monument, the war memorial, to read the names of Charles Paine and Guy and Berkeley Paget ...see more