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Below Old Windsor, the river reaches Runnymede, where in 1215 on an island now named Magna Carta Island, King John signed the great charter, widely regarded as the foundation of English liberty.

The Council erected this building as part of an agreement signed in 1900 for the transfer of land at the Island by Lord Windsor on condition that the Council provided toilet accommodation for visitors.

Between the shops on the right of 85178 (page 56) lies a narrow tunnel leading into Windsor Court.

The area now called Ottershaw was once a royal hunting ground within Windsor Forest.

Known as the 'Windsor of the North', this mansion in the Gothic style was designed for Lord Henry Brougham (1778-1868), by the architects Cottingham and Hussey.

Behind the building, the iron bridge linking Windsor Gardens spans the old path to the coastguard's station.

It was designed by William Butterfield in the prevailing neo-Gothic style, and much of its cost was met by the wealthy Windsor family.

It was named King's Ride because King George III used to ride this way on his return to Windsor Castle.

Harriet Windsor-Clive, the Countess of Plymouth, took an interest in the layout of Penarth, owning much of the land in the locality.

When Windsor was besieged by the Dauphin of France in 1216, part of its defences were still wood and earth, though in 1221 its castellan Engelard de Cigogne was authorised to commence a series of works

The south side of Windsor Road lay undeveloped until c1880 with the construction of the block seen here beyond the roundabout.

The stay of Mrs Simpson, the future wife of the Duke of Windsor, at Beach House is commemorated in the modern tea room in the old stables.

At right angles to Windsor Street, Guildford Street has seen many changes since the 1950s. In the distance in this view are the trees of St Peter's parish churchyard.

The main east-west street of the town - Windsor Street this side of the Town Hall and London Street beyond - is indeed dominated by the 1851 Town Hall, which projects over the pavement; it is now a

Members of the Royal Family still drive through Windsor Great Park to attend race meetings at Ascot.

Nine Mile Ride runs east to west from south Easthampstead to south of the Arborfield Garrison, originally cutting through Windsor Forest; it is now developed with long lines of bungalows.

Henry III ordered the Keeper of Windsor Forest to deliver to Andrew, Sergeant of Caversham, one good oak to make a boat for ferrying poor people over the water of Caversham.

A product of the tapestry workers, made for the Silver Jubilee of King George V, survived the disastrous fire at Windsor Castle in the late 1990s.

This is another view of this splendid Norman castle, built on the site of a Romano-British fortress by Gerald de Windsor as a wooden stronghold.

The parish church of Clewer village, now part of Windsor, St Andrew’s retains its village character in its old traditional setting.

for the 2nd Earl of Shelburne in the 1750s, was entirely cased in Denner Hill stone, a very hard silicaceous stone dug a mile or so north of the town, and also used by Wyatt in his work at Windsor

'With the assistance of a telescope Windsor Castle, Frant Church, St Paul's Cathedral, Dunstable Downs, Ditchling Beacon and the spires and towers of forty-one churches can be seen.'

During the 1977 Silver Jubilee celebrations they led the grand finale at which Her Majesty the Queen lit the first beacon at Windsor to signal the lighting of beacons across the country.