SUNNINGHILL, a parish in the hundred of COOKHAM,
county of BERKS, 6 miles (S. S. W.) from New
Windsor, containing 1125 inhabitants. The living is
a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of
Salisbury, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the
Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge.
The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is principally in
the Norman style of architecture. There is a place
of worship for Baptists. Two chalybeate springs, in the
garden of an inn called Sunning Wells, were formerly
in great repute, and adjoining them is a room where
public breakfasts have been given. At a place called
Bromehall, in this parish, there was formerly a small
Convent of Benedictine nuns, founded before the reign
of John; it was deserted by these sisters in 1522,
when it escheated to the crown, and was granted to
St. John's College, Cambridge.