Chalvey

Chalvey

Coordinates: 51°30′24″N 0°36′37″W / 51.5066°N 0.6102°W / 51.5066; -0.6102

Chalvey
Chalvey - St Peter's Church - geograph.org.uk - 1114632.jpg
St Peter's Church
Chalvey is located in Berkshire
Chalvey

 Chalvey shown within Berkshire
OS grid reference SU965795
District Slough
Ceremonial county Berkshire
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Slough
Postcode district SL1
Dialling code 01753
Police Thames Valley
Fire Royal Berkshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Slough
List of places: UK • England • Berkshire

Chalvey is a former village which is now a suburb of Slough in the unitary authority of Slough in Berkshire, England. It was transferred to Berkshire from Buckinghamshire in 1974.

It was first recorded in 1217 by an Old English word meaning "Calf Island", from Cealf meaning calf. As the name implies, Chalvey lies low on the plain of the River Thames and there may have been enough of a rise for an island to stand above the slough from which the later town takes its name.

Chalvey never formed a parish on its own, being twinned with Upton in the parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey.

As Slough developed, Chalvey developed as a working class community of small terraced houses. Nonconformist churches were established starting with the Congregationalists in 1806.[1]

In 1849, the Slough to Windsor railway was built, passing through the middle of Chalvey. A halt was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1929 but closed the following year.[2]

At some point between 1850 and 1880, a local legend developed about the "Chalvey Stab Monkey" involving an organ grinder and a stabbed monkey; the first person to get blind drunk on the anniversary of the monkey's funeral is declared "Mayor of Chalvey". Traditionally, residents of Chalvey have been known as stab-monks.[3]

A long standing local joke suggests that Chalvey's main industry is in the Treacle Mines. On occasion, this has been taken to be a reference to the local sewage works.[4]

It was stated on the Immigration - How We Lost Count edition of the BBC1 documentary Panorama on 23 July 2007 that Chalvey is severely overcrowded, and that most of its residents are immigrants and members of ethnic minorities. Chalvey has a large Asian population.[5]

References

  1. ^ p37, The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation 1973
  2. ^ p 53, Around Slough in Old Photographs, Judith Hunter and Karen Hunter, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1992
  3. ^ p40, The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation 1973
  4. ^ p58, The Changing Face of Slough, Slough Museum, Breedon Books, 2003
  5. ^ 2001 - Key Statistics Slough Borough Council Chalvey Ward

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