Sol Studios is a recording studio located in Cookham, Berkshire, England. The recording studio and control room are part of the complex property, along an old watermill and residential wheelhouse in the countryside. The property was bought in 1974 by Gus Dudgeon, and the recording studio was built in the following year. Gus ran the studio as his own production facility until running into financial trouble when the studio was sold to Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page. Page decided to revert to the old name of "The Sol".
The Sol Mill house in 2009
Cookham is a historic Thames-side village and civil parish on the north-eastern edge of Berkshire, England, 2.9 miles (5 km) north-north-east of Maidenhead and opposite the village of Bourne End. Cookham forms the southernmost and most rural part of the High Wycombe urban area. With adjoining Cookham Rise and Cookham Dean, it had a combined population of 5,779 at the 2011 Census. In 2011, The Daily Telegraph deemed Cookham Britain's second richest village.
Holy Trinity parish church
A Bronze Age palstave axehead, found in Cookham and dated to c. 3500 – c. 1500 BCE
A sestertius of the Roman Emperor Caracalla, found in Cookham and dated to c. 210 – c. 213
Print of Fred Walker's (1840-1875), Our Village (Cookham), exhibited at the Water-colour Society's Exhibition, London, in 1873
