In this the second of our guest contributor stories, Kate Ashbrook, now General Secretary of the Open Spaces Society, recalls her...

As indicated in our last post here in July 2022, we are handing these pages over to guest contributors whilst we prepare for the...

We're taking a break First let's tell you how we're taking a break. For almost three years we have been filling these pages with stories...

Lying approximately twenty miles from the heart of London, the village of Denham has been affected both positively and negatively by...

From those contributors to the Denham Community History website over the past few years, the one who was the most enthusiastic about her...

How it all began In 1066 William the Conqueror invaded England from his home in Normandy claiming that he had been assured by England's...

The civil parish is the smallest unit of local government in England. They are constituted only in rural areas, but the work they do...

Most of the shops and businesses on Village Road have now been transformed into private houses, but with great care for their status as...

Well of course it wasn't exactly a shopping mall, but there was a time not so long ago when the village had its own parade of shops...

Christmas festivities made us a little late with this second article about Denham's pubs, inns and beerhouses. It should have been...

Earlier this month we promised a second article about Denham's pubs, ale houses, beer houses and hostelries. We will be returning to that...

What is a Pub ? Few establishments have as many different names to identify them as the good old British "pub". Ask Google to come up...

In the first of our posts on Denham and the two World Wars, the focus was on World War 1 often referred to as the Great War. In this...

As summer time ends and the longer nights close in, we look forward to our winter celebrations and festivities. But first there are the...

Part I of this October 2021 post ended with a few teasing questions about village photos from the archives, including this one showing...

The attractiveness of Denham Village to visitors is nothing new. It has been a postcard village for over a hundred years. Several local...

Who was Robert Lathbury ? Though there are many people in Denham who have not heard his name, there are few, if any more significant...

Visitors to the Denham Parish Hall may, or perhaps may not, have noticed that as they leave by the back door into the car park on the...

For over a thousand years our village has included amongst its residents people well known and influential but still very much part of...

We get the names of our months from the ancient Romans. September, October, November and December each start with references to Latin...