Description
The origin of Maidenhead town, the various ways of spelling it, and the seal that it used on legal documents for many years, have all suffered from the fertile imagination of many well-meaning foreigners who have settled in the district…
The indigenous population of yeoman cottagers and watermen had a semi-secret local patois called “the old fashioned way of speaking”, which survives in personal and place names. Its secrecy is no longer useful, so I can now use it to show how the town really got its name, how it acquired the seal, who the seal was made for, and how its owner used it to benefit of the district.
Book Details
- Title: Maidenhead, its Seal and its Bridges.
- Author: Michael H. H. Bayley
- Subjects: History; Folklore — England; Social life and customs.
- Publication Details: Maidenhead : Self-published, 2010.
- Identifier: None.