Following on from the Home of Saxon Kings talk in October, Roland Smith who did the talk has sent us through the following additional information on Dr. Brian Hope-Taylors 1953-58 Excavation:

University of Reading, Reading Museum (2025) Unlocking Old Windsor: An Assessment of Brian Hope-Taylor's 1953-58 Excavation Archive from Kingsbury, Old Windsor, Berkshire [data-set].York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1138132

To find out more about the Excavations at Old Windsor between 1953 and 1958 - Dr Hope - Taylor Archive then click here

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Please see below update from Met Office and EA, following a multi-agency coordination meeting today (09/02/26).

Quick Links

• EA flood alerts and warnings.
• Report a flooding or drainage problem
• Flooding.Enquiries@RBWM.gov.uk

Headlines

• Berkshire experienced 91% of February’s rainfall in the first 8 days
• River levels are high; ground is saturated and responsive, and the groundwater levels are rising
• Rain is expected throughout the week, although gaps in between rainfall should allow for a more positive situation
• No more flood warnings are expected, although this is being closely monitored.

Met Office

Much of today will be fine and mainly dry, however, a band of rain will spread bring isolated showers, mostly felt in West Berkshire. With the ground already saturated, this could lead to surface flooding impacts.

Tomorrow: further bands of rain or showers are expected during the afternoon and evening, continuing into Wednesday. A drier spell of weather is possible on Wednesday afternoon.

Thursday and Friday will see further showers, isolated heavy, but not currently looking as widespread as we have seen.

Into the weekend: Saturday is looking to be dry weather with lengthy sunny spells, but it does currently look like unsettled conditions will return on Sunday or Monday.

Environment Agency

Flood Warning currently in place on River Kennet at Calcot, although hoping to be removed tomorrow as levels have peaked and are now falling.

Flood Warning currently in place on River Thames at Shiplake, levels have peaked, although could rise over the next few days.

There are 33 Fluvial flood alerts in the Thames Valley, which are expecting to stay for a while as the rate of fall will be slow.

The Jubilee is currently operating at 70 cumecs

Current models for River Thames suggest that levels are high at the top end but is starting to stabilise and fall. As the water moves downstream levels will slowly rise until Wednesday, and from Henley downwards levels may rise slowly before stabilising at the end of the week.

Further information will only be provided if the situation is forecast or deteriorates.

Kind Regards,

Duty Emergency Planning Officer

A shared service supporting resilience across Bracknell Forest, Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead and West Berkshire Councils.

To report emergencies then please see below:

Office Hours ONLY:

• Duty EPO: 01635 503535 | emergencyplanning@westberks.gov.uk

Outside office hours then please check the links below:

• Bracknell Forest Council: Out of hours emergencies | Bracknell Forest Council
• Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead: Emergency contacts | Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
• West Berkshire Council: Report an Emergency Happening Now - West Berkshire Council

For a list of the roadworks taking place in RBWM this week please go to:

https://www.rbwm.gov.uk/home/transport-and-streets/roads-and-pavements/council-works-highway-week

To report a missed refuse bin this week please go to:

https://www.rbwm.gov.uk/home/environment-and-waste/recycling-and-rubbish/report-missed-bin

To report anything else then go to:

https://www.rbwm.gov.uk/apply-pay-report/report-it

Below are a variety of sites to get information on what is happening with the river that you may find them useful.

https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/7172 This shows the up to date river levels both upstream and downstream of Old Windsor Lock. This is probably the most useful link.

https://www.gov.uk/sign-up-for-flood-warnings As it says, this is where you can sign up for flood warnings.

https://www.gov.uk/check-flooding This is for a check of immediate risk in your area

https://www.gov.uk/check-long-term-flood-risk This one gives all sorts of flood risks up to five days, just enter your postcode and what type of risk you are interested in.

https://flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk/map?seg=fz&cz=499000.3,174217.9,16.766791 A great one for planning and showing the flood zones.