Datchet is a village and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England, on the north bank of the River Thames.

The village developed because of its proximity to Windsor and the ferry service which connected it to the main London Road across the River Thames.

[4]: 278 [5] There is evidence of habitation in the area shortly after the end of the last ice age, between 10,000 and 6,500 years ago, and of a multi-period settlement at Southlea from the Neolithic to the late Roman periods.

[6] An excavation at Riding Court, a manorial sub-division of Datchet, has revealed a monument complex that included a cursus, ring ditches, oval barrows and causewayed enclosures.

The 2017 investigations at Riding Court Farm have provided evidence of Early Neolithic activity (4000–3350 BC) with the discovery of a previously unknown causewayed enclosure.

From 1802 the title followed the same descent as Datchet and Ditton in Stoke Poges, and the manorial rights were vested in John Walter Edward, the second Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, until recently transferred to David Mapley, the current owner.

The crossing was replaced three times until it was finally demolished in 1851 as part of the re-routing of roads and bridges when the LSWR railway line was built from Richmond to Windsor.

[10] In early 1911 a young Sydney Camm watched Sir Thomas Sopwith land his aircraft on Datchet golf course, on his return journey from Windsor Castle.

[12] Datchet railway station is on the Windsor & Eton Riverside to London Waterloo line with a journey time of around 55 minutes.