[2][3] Finchampstead parish extends from The Throat on the southern edge of Wokingham, just past the Inchcape Garage, down to the Tally Ho pub on the River Blackwater which forms the southern border with Eversley and its county Hampshire, over Eversley Bridge.

[6] It is a large residential village with its own country park around Longmoor Lake, on the edge of Barkham Common.

Finchampstead has a parish council with a total of 17 councillors elected by the North, South and Lower Wokingham wards.

[8][5] The Roman road between London and Silchester, called the "Devil's Highway", ran through the middle of the parish.

[citation needed] St. Oswald apparently visited the village in the 7th century and named the local holy well, which is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to have flowed with blood in times of National crisis.

[8][5] Finchampstead is a richly wooded area on the western edge of old Windsor Forest and once the centre of one of its divisional "walkes" and bailiwicks.

[6] It was the hunting place of Royalty and an old tale tells how King Henry VII brought his son, Prince Arthur, out onto the Ridges to see his bride, Catherine of Aragon, for the first time.

[8][5] His other son, Henry VIII, is said to have wooed two sisters at East Court Manor until one committed suicide in a fit of jealousy.

[5][4] East Court was next to the church, but has been replaced by a Victorian building and the name has been transferred to another house in the village.

[10][4] Finchampstead's Wellingtonia Avenue was planted with one hundred giant sequoia trees, as a monument to the 1st Duke of Wellington in the 1860s.

It was sold for conversion to a private house when the Finchampstead Baptist Church Centre was built in California.