Bray, Berkshire

Bray (sometimes Bray-on-Thames) is a village in Berkshire, on the banks of the River Thames. This is the village mentioned in the song The Vicar of Bray.

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Village - Berkshire - River Thames - The Vicar of Bray

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Monkey Island, in the Thames, is associated with the 3rd Duke of Marlborough, and still houses two amusing structures that he built and furnished with paintings of monkeys.

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Monkey Island - Duke of Marlborough

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Bray is home to two restaurants with three Michelin stars: The Fat Duck, which was adjudged the best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine in 2005, and The Waterside Inn, which ranked 19 in Restaurant's list.

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Michelin stars - The Fat Duck - Restaurant - The Waterside Inn

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There are several very expensive houses on the river upstream of Bray lock and they have been referred to as 'Millionaires row' in the national press. The flooding risk of these houses has recently been decreased by the Jubilee River a large drainage ditch between Maidenhead and Eton.

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