[3] Acquiring the patronage of the local lord of the manor, Francis Cherry, he rose to become assistant-keeper of the Bodleian Library in Oxford and the author of many important works.

[3] White Waltham School was established in 1828 and has been developed and expanded since, providing primary education for pupils between the ages of 5 and 11 and has legal academy status.

The area had approximately half of the population in the late Victorian period but was overall significantly poorer in terms of real property.

After World War II the south of White Waltham was proposed as land for Berkshire's new town to rehouse Londoners made homeless by The Blitz.

[3] However, central and local government agreed in 1949 to use the alternative of Bracknell, as the White Waltham site would have encroached on good quality agricultural land, and was not on a railway.

[3] In 1964, the famous "Great Steam Fair" was held for three days at Shottesbrooke Park near White Waltham.