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Colnbrook is a village in the unitary authority of Slough in Berkshire, England. It was formerly in the historic county of Buckinghamshire. It straddles the Colne Brook and Wraysbury River which join on its southwest border (two distributaries of the Colne). It is centred southeast of Slough, east of Windsor and west of central London. Colnbrook is the most part of the civil parish of Colnbrook with Poyle (see also Poyle). Junctions of the M4 and M25 are near the village. To the east is Longford, London, and Bedfont and Stanwell which abut the south of London Heathrow Airport. Colnbrook with Poyle is a suburban parish with significant industrial units, logistical premises and open land. The parish was created on 1 April 1995 as an amalgamation of Colnbrook from Iver to the north and the smaller Poyle from an unparished area of Stanwell to the south-east. At the 2011 census the whole civil parish had a population of 6,157 living in 2,533 homes.〔(2011 Census )〕 ==History== Mentioned in William the Conqueror's Domesday Book, Colnbrook is on the Colne Brook, a tributary of the River Colne, hence ''Colnbrook''.〔''History of the Parish of Wraysbury, Ankerwycke Priory, and Magna Charta Island; with the History of Horton, and the town of Colnbrook, Bucks.'', G. W. J. Gyll, 1862, London: H. G. Bohn. (Online version at Google Books ) ( OCLC: 5001532 )〕 Coaching inns were the village's main industry. In 1106 the first one was founded by Milo Crispin, named ''the Hospice'' (now the Ostrich Inn), the third oldest in England. By 1577 Colnbrook had no fewer than ten coaching inns. Colnbrook's High Street was on the main London to Bath road and turn off point for Windsor and was used as a resting point for travellers. One 17th-century landlord, Jarman of the ''Ostrich Inn'', installed a large trap door under the bed in the best bedroom located immediately above the inn's kitchen. The bed was fixed to the trap door and the mattress securely attached to the bedstead, so that when two retaining iron pins were removed from below in the small hours of the morning, the sleeping guest was neatly decanted into a boiling cauldron. In this way more than 60 of his richer guests were murdered silently and with no bloodshed. Their bodies were then disposed of in the River Colne. The murder of a wealthy clothier, Olde Cole or Thomas of Reading, proved to be Jarman's undoing in that he failed to get rid of Cole's horse, leading to his confessing. Jarman and his wife were hanged for robbery and murder.〔(''The hundred of Stoke: Colnbrook, A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3.'' ) William Page (editor), 1925, pp. 246-249.〕〔''Sweet Thames Run Softly'' - Robert Gibbings〕〔(''How Thomas of Reading was Murdered'' - Thomas Deloney )〕 The inn is reportedly haunted and has been subject to investigations by the Sussex Paranormal Research Group and ''Most Haunted''.〔(Sussex Paranormal Research Group )〕 On an episode of "Ghosthunters International" that aired on 21 July 2010, it is mentioned that the Jarman murders at the Ostrich Inn were the inspiration for the story of "Sweeney Todd". Colnbrook is also the place where Richard Cox (a retired brewer), in 1825, first grafted the Cox's Orange Pippin apple at his orchard named ''The Lawns''. A traditional coaching history has led to no fewer than four inns or public houses remaining, three in Colnbrook, one in Poyle.〔(Colnbrook with Poyle Civil Parish Council )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colnbrook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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