Wraysbury

Wraysbury (previously Wyrardsbury) is a village in Berkshire, England. It is located in the very east of the county, in the part that was once part of Buckinghamshire (until 1974). It sits on the northern bank of the River Thames.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin and means 'Waerheard's town'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Wyrardisbury.

The parish church of St Andrew is an old Gothic structure, between Norman and Early English, supposed to have been built by King John. The register dates from the year 1734. On the Ankerwycke estate in the village are the ruins of a Benedictine nunnery, founded in the reign of King Henry II.

The village was once a portion of hunting grounds when the Saxons resided at Old Windsor. New Windsor was built in 1110 by King Henry I and he moved in, in 1163. The lands around Wraysbury were held by a number of noblemen.