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Weybridge

Weybridge (/ˈwbrɪ/) is a town in the Elmbridge district in Surrey, England, around 17 mi (27 km) southwest of central London. The settlement is recorded as Waigebrugge and Weibrugge in the 7th century and the name derives from a crossing point of the River Wey, which flows into the River Thames to the north of the town centre. The earliest evidence of human activity is from the Bronze Age. During the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods, Weybridge was held by Chertsey Abbey. In 2011 it had a population of 15,449.

Weybridge
Town
The Old Bridge on the River Wey
Weybridge
Location within Surrey
Area13.73 km2 (5.30 sq mi)
Population15,449 (2011 census)[1] or 29,837 (Built-up Area, which extends to Byfleet)[2]
• Density1,125/km2 (2,910/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTQ0764
• London27 km (17 mi) north east
Civil parish
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District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWeybridge
Postcode districtKT13
Dialling code01932
PoliceSurrey
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51°21′43″N 0°27′11″W / 51.362°N 0.453°W / 51.362; -0.453

In the 1530s, Henry VIII constructed Oatlands Palace to the north of the town centre, which he intended to be the residence of his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. He married Catherine Howard there in July 1540 and the palace remained a royal residence until the Civil War. The buildings were demolished in the early 1650s and a new mansion, Oatlands House, was constructed to the east of Weybridge later the same century. Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany owned the mansion in the 18th century.

The town began to expand beyond its medieval footprint in the early 19th century, catalysed by the initial breakup of the Oatlands House estate, the enclosure of Weybridge Heath and the opening of the railway station in 1838. The developer, W. G. Tarrant, was responsible for the construction of housing on St George's Hill in the first half of the 20th century.

The world's first purpose-built racing circuit was constructed at Brooklands in 1907. The track hosted the first British Grand Prix in 1926 and was used by Malcolm Campbell to develop his final land speed record car, Campbell-Railton Blue Bird. Throughout the 20th century, Brooklands was an important location for the aerospace industry and aircraft developed and tested there included the Sopwith Camel, the Wellington bomber and the Hurricane fighter. Vickers established a factory at the circuit in 1915 and aircraft manufacturing continued at the site until 1988.

Toponymy edit

The first written records of a settlement at Weybridge date from the 7th century, when its name is given as Waigebrugge and Weibrugge.[3] It appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Webrige and Webruge[4] and in subsequent surviving documents as Waibrigge and Wabrigge (12th century) and Wybrugge and Weybrugge (13th century). The name simply means "Bridge over the River Wey".[3]

Oatlands is first recorded in 1383 as Otelands, which may indicate that the area was used for the cultivation of oats.[3] The earliest written record of Brooklands is from 1548, when it appears as Brokeland. The name probably means "marshy land".[3] St George's Hill appears to have acquired its current name in the early 17th century. It is recorded as Le Bery in 1337 and Oldebury in 1548. The previous name may derive from the Old English word burh, which might reference the Iron Age earthworks on the hill.[5]

Geography edit

Location and topography edit

 
 
 

Weybridge is in northwest Surrey, approximately 17 mi (27 km) southwest of central London.[6][7] The town centre is close to the confluence of the River Wey and the River Thames, but the settlement also includes St George's Hill and Brooklands, to the south.[6] The highest point in Weybridge is 78 m (256 ft) above ordnance datum, but the low-lying areas close to the rivers are only 10–20 m (33–66 ft) above sea level.

Neighbouring settlements include Shepperton to the north, Walton-on-Thames to the east, Wisley to the south and Addlestone to the west.[6]

Geology edit

The rock strata on which Weybridge sits were deposited in the Cenozoic. The Bagshot Sands are the main outcrop to the south of the town and at Brooklands.[8] From the centre of Weybridge northwards towards the Thames, the surface geology is dominated by river gravels.[9]

Overlying the Bagshot Sands at St George's Hill is a cap of Bracklesham Clay,[8] which was used for brickmaking in the 19th century.[10] Ironstone, containing 33-48% iron(III) oxide, is also found on the Hill,[11] along with a capping of chert gravels, thought to have been deposited by a former course of the River Wey.[12]

History edit

Early history edit

The earliest evidence of human occupation in Weybridge is from the Bronze Age. A number of weapons, including socketed axe heads, a rapier, and a palstave, were retrieved from the River Wey close to the Wey Bridge in 1912.[13][14] At least fifty cinerary urns dating from the same period were found in the area in the 19th and early 20th centuries.[13] Three of the urns were recovered from a barrow during building work on the Silvermere estate (south of St George's Hill) and were found to contain bones and charcoal.[15]

A copper-alloy bucket, now held by the British Museum, was discovered during the construction of the Brooklands racetrack in 1907. It is thought to have originated in northern Italy in the late Bronze or early Iron Age and similar vessels have been found in Austria, Belgium and Germany.[16][17] During the Iron Age, there was a fort on St George's Hill. It covered an area of around 14 acres (5.7 ha) and was protected by a rampart and ditch.[18][19] Most traces of the fort were destroyed by housebuilding in the first half of the 20th century.[14] Remains of a roundhouse and archaeological evidence of iron workings were discovered in the triangle of land between the railway lines in 1981.[20]

There is not thought to have been a significant Roman presence in Weybridge, but 68 bronze coins of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries were found at Brooklands in 1907.[21] Much of the hoard, which included nummi from the reigns of Diocletian (284–305 CE),[22] Maximian (286–305),[23] Constantius I (305–306)[24] and Galerius (305–311), was donated to the British Museum.[25]

Governance edit

There are three separate entries for Weybridge in Domesday Book. The first area of land described was held by Bishop Odo of Bayeux as tenant-in-chief and Herfrid of Throwley as lesser tenant. It included 16 acres (6.5 ha) of meadow and woodland for five swine with a value of £5 per annum. The other two entries list areas belonging to Chertsey Abbey, totalling a further 16 acres of meadow, land for four swine and ploughland for 1½ plough teams. None of the entries records a church or a mill in the settlement.[4][26]

There are only sporadic surviving references to Weybridge in the following centuries. A chapel is mentioned in a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander III in 1176 and a later document shows that Chertsey Abbey had sold the advowson to Newark Priory by 1200. By 1262, the Priory had obtained a license that confirmed its rights to appoint a priest, to hold church property and to collect tithes from the local residents. In 1284 the village was held by Geoffrey de Lucy as a lesser tenant of Chertsey Abbey.[27]

 
Oatlands Palace (17th century)
 
Entrance gateway to the former Oatlands Palace built c. 1545[28]

Following the dissolution of the monasteries, Weybridge was held by the Rede family for three years, before passing to the Crown in 1537.[29] In June of the same year, Henry VIII began to construct Oatlands Palace by expanding an existing late-medieval manor house located to the north of the town centre. Some of the stone used in the construction of the foundations was taken from the demolition of Chertsey Abbey.[30] Henry had intended that the palace would become the residence of his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, but the marriage was annulled after six months.[30] The king married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, at Oatlands, but rarely visited thereafter.[31] Following Henry's death the palace remained a possession of the Crown until the Commonwealth, when the contents were sold and the buildings demolished.[32] Only a side entrance gate and adjoining sections of walls, which date from c. 1545, remain.[28]

Reforms during the Tudor period reduced the importance of manorial courts and the day-to-day administration of towns such as Weybridge became the responsibility of the vestry of the parish church.[33] The Weybridge vestry oversaw the distribution of poor relief and the maintenance of local roads. In the 1840s, responsibility for poor relief was transferred to the Chertsey Board of Guardians of the Poor. Local drainage and highways boards were established in the 1860s and in the 1870s a burial board was created to purchase land for new cemeteries.[34]

The Local Government Act 1888 transferred many administrative responsibilities to the newly formed Surrey County Council and was followed by an 1894 Act that created the Weybridge Urban District Council (UDC). Initially the council met at the National school, but moved to Aberdeen House at the junction of High Street and Baker Street in 1908. As a result of the Local Government Act 1929, the UDCs of Weybridge and Walton were combined in 1932. In 1951 the civil parish of Weybridge had a population of 8083.[35] On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished. The unified council was merged with the Esher UDC to form Elmbridge Borough Council in 1974.[34]

Transport and communications edit

The name "Weybridge" suggests that there has been a bridge over the River Wey in the area since Anglo-Saxon times. During the Elizabethan period, the bridge was a wooden structure, 240 ft (73 m) long and 5.25 ft (1.60 m) wide and was maintained by Elizabeth I in her capacity as lord of the manor.[36] The structure was rebuilt in 1808 on 13 wooden arches. The present bridge dates from 1865 and is constructed from brick, iron and stone.[36][37] A second bridge, downstream of the first, was completed in 1945 and now carries the A317.[36]

 
Thames Lock, Wey Navigation

Both the Thames and the Wey have been used for transport since ancient times. By the 14th century, there was a wharf at Weybridge used for shipment of timber[36] and, in 1463, Thomas Warner was given permission to build a dock on his land, which became known as the "Crown Wharf".[38] In 1537, materials for the construction of Oatlands Palace were transported to Weybridge by river.[36] The River Wey Navigation was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1651. Twelve locks (including two flood locks) and 9 mi (14 km) of new cuts were constructed between the Thames and Guildford.[39][40] Thames Lock was rebuilt in concrete in the 1930s, but like all the locks on the Wey, it was originally turf sided.[41][note 1]

The earliest locks on the upper Thames were built in the 17th century, following the establishment of the Oxford-Burcot Commission.[43] However, efforts to improve the stretch of the river through Weybridge did not start until the following century. In 1789, a flash lock was installed at Sunbury, but was replaced by a pound lock in 1812.[44] Shepperton Lock opened the following year.[45] The construction of the locks regulated the flow of the river and increased its depth, facilitating navigation and maintaining an adequate head of water to power mills.[46]

The River Thames through Weybridge was further improved when the Desborough Cut was opened in 1935. The 100 ft wide (30 m) navigable channel bypasses a three-mile (5 km) meander and was primarily designed to increase the flood capacity of the river.[47] Construction of the cut created the 45 ha (110-acre) Desborough Island,[48] the entirety of which is in Weybridge.[6]

 
Weybridge railway station, 1958[note 2]

The London and Southampton Railway Company opened the station at Weybridge in May 1838.[49][note 3] Initially the station had two platforms and was in a deep cutting between St George's Hill and Weybridge Heath. The typical journey time to London was around an hour and, by 1841, a mail train was stopping daily. A junction was created to the west of the station in 1848, when the line to Chertsey was constructed.[36][note 4][note 5] Additional tracks on the main line through the station were added in 1885[52] and 1902.[53] The lines through the station were electrified in 1907,[54] although steam locomotives continued to haul long-distance express services through Weybridge until 1967.[36] The goods yard was closed in 1964 and signal boxes in the local area were shut in March 1970, when control of the lines was transferred to Surbiton Panel Box.[55] An arson attack in January 1987, resulted in the destruction of the 1904 station building.[56]

A manual telephone exchange opened in Weybridge in 1912 and was replaced in 1954 by an automated facility in Heath Road, which had sufficient capacity for 2500 lines.[57]

Residential development edit

Although Weybridge was still only a small village in the early 18th century, a high proportion of the residents were members of the aristocracy. In 1724, the rector noted that it was increasingly becoming a place for "gentile retirement" and recorded eighteen upper-class families living in the area.[58] The settlement was dominated by two estates: Portmore Park, to the north west of the centre, was the seat of the Colyear family, the Earls of Portmore; Oatlands Park, to the east, had been built on the former deer park belonging to Oatlands Palace and was purchased by Prince Frederick, the Duke of York and Albany, in 1790.

 
Georgian-style houses at the north end of Hanger Hill, constructed in the late 1990s[note 6]

Towards the end of the 18th century, Weybridge was beginning to expand beyond its medieval footprint. In 1800, Weybridge Heath, an area of common land to the south east of the village centre, was enclosed. The Act of Inclosure enabled the Duke of York to purchase almost the whole of St George's Hill and to add it to the Oatlands Estate. Four years later, Hanger Hill, one of the roads running across the heath, was laid out and plots alongside it were sold for housebuilding.[61]

The Duke of York sold Oatlands Park in 1824, but the new owner, Edward Hughes Ball Hughes, was forced to lease the house and the surrounding 900 acres (360 ha) to Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, three years later.[62] The remainder of the Oatlands estate was sold in stages between 1828 and 1846. Housebuilding began almost as soon as the land was released, stimulated in part by the opening of Weybridge railway station in 1838. The majority of the houses in Oatlands village were completed by 1859.[63][64] Oatlands Park House was sold to the developer W. G. Tarrant in 1909.[63]

 
Entrance gateway to the former Portmore Park estate

The west side of Weybridge High Street was developed when the Portmore Park estate was broken up in 1880s.[65] The estate, approximately covering the area between the High Street and the River Wey, had been established by Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk in the 1670s. It was purchased by the Locke King family in 1861, who sold the land for residential development in the final decades of the 19th century.[66]

St George's Hill was developed by W. G. Tarrant, who bought 936 acres (379 ha) of land from the Edgerton family in 1911. A year later he began the construction of the Tennis and Golf Clubs and published a series of promotions in the Surrey Herald to advertise the houses that he intended to build.[67] Strict covenants were imposed on the development and the minimum size of each property was fixed as one acre (0.40 ha). Construction was interrupted by the First World War, but resumed shortly afterwards, continuing until the start of the Great Depression in the late 1920s.[68]

The first council housing in the town was built by the Weybridge UDC between 1923 and 1927, when 160 houses were constructed on the Old Palace Gardens estate. Following the end of the Second World War, the Weybridge and Walton UDC built over 1000 houses in the two towns.[69]

Brooklands edit

 
Brooklands, 1907

Brooklands, the first purpose-built motor-racing circuit in the world, opened in 1907.[70] Constructed on farmland to the south of Weybridge, the concrete track was designed by Capel Lofft Holden and had a total length of 2.75 mi (4.43 km).[71][note 7] The first races for motorcars took place in July 1907 and for motorcycles in February the following year. Both attracted a large number of entrants from across Europe[73][74][75] and by 1911, the British Automobile Racing Club had established a programme of regular race meetings.[76]

Motor racing ceased for the duration of the First World War and did not resume until 1920. The first two British Grands Prix took place at the circuit in 1926 and 1927.[77] The JCC 200 Mile race also took place at the circuit from 1921 to 1928, and again in 1938. In the early 1930s, Malcolm Campbell developed the Campbell-Railton Blue Bird, his final land speed record car, at Brooklands. Racing ceased for a second time at the outbreak of the Second World War.[78]

 
Vickers factory, 1930

Brooklands also played a key role in the development of the British aeronautical industry. In 1907, the aviation pioneer, A. V. Roe, performed the first flight by a British-built aeroplane at the circuit shortly after it opened in 1907.[74][note 8] By 1912, several flying schools had been established at Brooklands and the Vickers company began manufacturing aircraft in 1915.[79] The Sopwith Camel was among several aircraft developed at Brooklands during the First World War.[80]

Aircraft manufacture continued during the 1920s and 1930s. Among those working at the Vickers factory was Barnes Wallis, who was involved in designing the Wellesley and the Wellington bombers. The Hawker Aircraft company opened a factory at Brooklands in 1935 and began building prototypes of the Hurricane fighter.[81] Aircraft manufacture intensified during the Second World War and new factories, warehouses and hangars were rapidly built, encroaching onto the racing circuit. The track was breached near Byfleet to improve access for deliveries to the site and a large workshop was cut into the concrete at the north end.[82] Following the end of hostilities in 1945, the track was considered to be in such poor condition that a resumption of motor racing was ruled impossible.[83]

In the late 1940s and 1950s, the manufacturers based at Brooklands started to transition towards the production of civilian airliners. Vickers began producing the VC series of aircraft with the VC1 Viking in 1945.[84] The VC10 was launched in 1964, by which point the company had been nationalised as the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).[85] Increasingly BAC began to refocus manufacturing at Brooklands to the production of aircraft parts, with final assembly elsewhere.[86][note 9] Components of the British-built Concordes were manufactured at the site in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1977, BAC merged with Hawker-Siddeley to form British Aerospace[86] and the combined entity began to run down the Brooklands site. Aerospace manufacturing finally ceased in Weybridge in 1988.[87][88]

Commerce and industry edit

Although no mill is mentioned in the Weybridge entries in the Domesday book, watermills appear to have played an important role in the economy of the area since at least the early modern period. The earliest record of a mill in the town is from 1693, when a paper mill was built at the confluence of the Wey and Thames.[89]

Ironstone was quarried from Weybridge Heath and St George's Hill, although the dates of these workings are uncertain.[18][20] In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, iron was smelted at a mill on Whittet's Ait and there is reference to iron and steel manufacture taking place at two mills in Byfleet in 1760. The Whittet's Ait mill appears to have been used as a "Brass Wire Mill" in the 1760s and the machinery required for iron smelting had been fitted by 1769.[89]

 
Apartments on the site of the former oil-seed mill at Thames Lock[90]

A mill for grinding malt was built on the Wey upstream of Thames Lock in around 1819, but had fallen into disrepair by 1830. In 1842 a new mill for extracting vegetable oil from seeds was built on the same site[89] and the Whittet's Ait mill was also being used for the same purpose by the 1930s. In the 1970s, Whittet's Ait was the site of a solvent refinery.[91]

For much of the 20th century, Weybridge was a centre for the aerospace industry. The Lang Propeller Works was established on Whittet's Ait in 1913[87][92] and, in 1915, the Vickers company took over the Itala motor works at Brooklands. The circuit was also the base for several other aircraft manufacturers including Avro, Sopwith and Blériot.[93]

As of 2021, the European headquarters of Sony[94] and the UK headquarters of Procter & Gamble are at Brooklands.[95]

Weybridge in the world wars edit

At the start of the First World War, Weybridge became a training base for the 244 Motorised Transport Company, an army unit of mechanics and drivers operating as part of the 19th Divisional Supply Column. The company served throughout the war in the Gallipoli and Balkans campaigns.[96] There were two military hospitals in Oatlands. Barnham Lodge opened as a 35-bed hospital in 1915 and, by 1917, a small operating theatre was in use and the facility was being run by the British Red Cross. Oatlands Park Hotel was requisitioned in 1916 as a hospital for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and was primarily used to treat "medical & tuberculosis cases and limbless men".[97]

Ethel Locke King, the chair of the Chertsey branch of the Red Cross, was instrumental in establishing 15 hospitals in the local area during the First World War.[98] She also organised a rest station for troops at Weybridge railway station.[96] In January 1918, Locke King became a Dame Commander of the British Empire.[98]

The presence of the Vickers aircraft factory made Weybridge an obvious target for enemy bombing during the Second World War.[99] The defence of the town was coordinated by the 3rd Surrey Battalion of the Home Guard[100] and five platoons of the C company were stationed at Brooklands.[101] The local civil defence headquarters were established at the UDC offices in Aberdeen House and the council built a large air raid shelter at the Churchfields Recreation Ground. Serious bombing began in the local area in August 1940 and by December of that year 97 residents had died and 1300 houses had been damaged.[99]

A devastating air raid took place on the Vickers plant in September 1940, when 83 people were killed.[102] A 500 lb (230 kg) bomb landed on the floor of the factory, but failed to explode. Five men of the Royal Canadian Engineers successfully removed the bomb from the building before it exploded. Lieutenant John Patton was subsequently awarded the George Cross for his role in the incident.[103] Later in the war, 19 V-1 flying bombs landed in the Weybridge and Walton area.[99]

National and local government edit

UK parliament edit

The town is in the parliamentary constituency of Runnymede and Weybridge and has been represented at Westminster since May 2019 by Conservative Ben Spencer.[104][105] Between 1997 and 2019, the constituency was represented by Philip Hammond, who was elevated to the House of Lords as Lord Hammond of Runnymede in 2020.[106][note 10]

County council edit

Councillors are elected to Surrey County Council every four years. The majority of the town is in the "Weybridge" electoral division, but areas to the east of the centre are in the "Walton South and Oatlands" and "Hersham" electoral divisions.[107][108]

Borough council edit

Weybridge is divided between three wards, each of which elect three councillors to Elmbridge Borough Council. The three wards are "Oatlands and Burwood Park", "Weybridge Riverside" and "Weybridge St George's Hill".[108][109]

Between 1966 and 2009, the Borough of Elmbridge was twinned with Rueil-Malmaison in northern France.[110]

Demography and housing edit

2011 Census Key Statistics[1][2]
Output area Population Households % Owned outright % Owned with a loan hectares
Weybridge North 4,347 1,914 27 37 233
Weybridge South 4,600 2,088 31 33 202
St George's Hill 6,502 2,567 33 40 938
Regional average 35.1 32.5
2011 Census Homes[1][2]
Output area Detached Semi-detached Terraced Flats and apartments Caravans/temporary/mobile homes Shared between households
Weybridge North 439 435 398 642 0 0
Weybridge South 499 328 336 908 2 15
St George's Hill 1,152 379 340 696 0 0

Across the South East Region, 28% of homes were detached houses and 22.6% were apartments.[2]

Transport edit

Public transport edit

 
Weybridge station building

Weybridge railway station is to the south of the town centre. It is managed by South Western Railway, which operates all services. Trains run to London Waterloo via Clapham Junction and to Woking.[111]

Weybridge is linked by bus to surrounding towns and villages in north Surrey and south west London. Operators serving the town include Arriva, Diamond Bus, the East Surrey Rural Transport Partnership and Falcon Buses.[112]

River navigations edit

The non-tidal section of the River Thames is navigable between Lechlade in Gloucestershire and Teddington Lock. The navigation authority is the Environment Agency.[113] The River Wey is navigable from Weybridge to Godalming and the navigation authority is the National Trust.[114]

National cycle route edit

National Cycle Route 4, which links London to Fishguard, passes through Weybridge.[115]

Long-distance footpaths edit

The Thames Path runs along the south bank of the River Thames, to the north of the town centre.[116]

Public services edit

Utilities edit

Weybridge received its first drinking water supply in 1869, when the West Surrey Water Company was formed. The water was abstracted from the Thames at Walton, where it was filtered and then pumped to a storage reservoir on St George's Hill. In 1960, the company became part of the Woking and District Water Company.[117][118] Today, Affinity Water is responsible for supplying the town with drinking water.[119]

The first wastewater treatment works in the town was built at Brooklands Farm in 1895. The works were principally a series of sewage lagoons, but were upgraded in 1939 to filter beds, which were considered less conspicuous to enemy aircraft. The present works, in the triangle formed by the railway lines to the west of Weybridge station, were opened in 1973.[120] Treated water is discharged into the River Wey.[121]

The Walton upon Thames and Weybridge Gas Company was incorporated in 1869.[120] It was taken over by the Wandsworth Gas Company in Oct 1936.[122]

 
The former power station in Church Walk[123]

In 1890, Weybridge became the first town in Britain to have electric street lighting using incandescent filament bulbs.[123] The power station in Church Walk was capable of generating 70 kW and operated for six years before its closure in 1896. In 1902, a new station was opened in Thames Street with an initial installed capacity of 180 kW, which had risen to 700 kW by the time of its closure 20 years later. From 1922, electricity was supplied to the town by the Twickenham and Teddington Electricity Supply Company.[120][123]

Emergency services edit

Weybridge Fire Brigade was formed 1874 and was initially equipped with a horse-drawn, manual engine with leather hoses.[124] In 1881 the brigade moved to new building in Balfour Road[125] and a steam-driven fire engine was purchased in 1902.[126] In 1921, the Weybridge brigade was made responsible for attending fires in Cobham.[127] The merger of Weybridge and Walton UDCs in 1933, resulted in the fire brigades of the two towns being combined into one single unit.[128] Weybridge Police Station opened 1908 and closed in 1968.[129]

In 2021, the fire authority for Weybridge is Surrey County Council and the statutory fire service is Surrey Fire and Rescue Service.[130] Ambulance services are run by the South East Coast Ambulance Service.[131] The local police force is Surrey Police and the nearest police station to the town is at Esher.[132]

Healthcare edit

Weybridge Cottage Hospital was opened in 1889 in Balfour Road on land belonging to Ethel Locke King.[133] It was replaced in 1928 by a new facility on the site of Vigo House in Church Street.[134] The hospital became part of the National Health Service in 1948 and in the early 1960s, an additional wing was constructed. In 1999, a new hospital was opened adjacent to the old, which was subsequently demolished.[135] In July 2017, the building was destroyed by fire, most probably caused by an electrical fault.[136][137]

The nearest hospital with an A&E is St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, 4.8 km (3.0 mi) from Weybridge.[138] As of 2021, the town has two GP practices, both of which are housed in the Health Centre on Church Street.[139]

Education edit

Early schools edit

The first recorded school in Weybridge was a Dame School for 12 children, founded c. 1650 in Baker Street.[140] A charity school for poor children was founded in Weybridge in 1732 by Elizabeth Hopton and was incorporated into a new Parochial School in 1813. A second small parochial school was founded on the Oatlands estate in 1862 and was enlarged in 1874 to accommodate 201 children.[141]

Maintained schools edit

 
Heathside School, Brooklands Lane

There are several Primary Schools in Weybridge. St Charles Borromeo Catholic Primary School was founded in Heath Road in 1881.[141] It educates around 210 pupils aged from 4 to 11.[142] Cleves School, in Oatlands Avenue, became an academy in November 2010.[143] St James Church of England Primary School is in Grotto Road.[144]

Heathside School, in Brooklands Lane, is a co-educational secondary school for students aged 11 to 18. It opened in 1966.[145]

Independent school edit

 
St George's College Junior School, Thames Street

St George's College Junior School is a coeducational Catholic school for pupils aged 3 to 11.[146] It moved from the main school campus in Addlestone to Thames Street in 2000.[147] The site, to the north of Weybridge town centre, had previously been occupied by a school for girls, founded in 1898 by the nuns of Les Dames de St Maur.[141]

Further education edit

Brooklands College opened in 1951 as the Brooklands Technical College.[148] Its Weybridge campus is built around the former Brooklands House, a Grade II-listed building, which was once the home of the Locke-King family.[149] The mansion was originally constructed in 1860, but was rebuilt by the architect, Reginald Blomfield, in a Queen Anne style in 1891.[150]

Brooklands College merged with Spelthorne College in Ashford in 2007.[151] It now operates across two campuses and educates over 1,600 students. Higher education courses are offered in association with Oxford Brookes and Kingston Universities.[148]

Places of worship edit

Early church edit

 
Weybridge Parish Church (published 1847)[152]

There is no mention of a church at Weybridge in the Domesday Book[26] and the first record of a place of worship is in 1175, in which a chapel in the town is listed as a dependent of Chertsey Abbey.[153] During the Reformation, several valuable items, including chalices and a paten were seized from the Weybridge church by the King's commissioners. The font was buried under the floor of the building at around the same time, possibly to prevent it being confiscated.[154]

Major renovations to Weybridge church were carried out in 1722, including the construction of a south aisle.[155] The congregation increased in size in the first half of the 19th century, as the population of the town expanded. By the middle of the century, it was clear that a larger building was required and so the church was demolished in 1848 and replaced by the present St James'.[156] A portion of a fresco from the old church was saved and is held by Elmbridge Museum.[157]

St James' Church edit

 
St James' Church

The Anglican parish church of St James was built in 1848 to replace the earlier church. It was designed by the architect John Loughborough Pearson in the Early English Gothic Revival style. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with a plain tiled roof.[158] The broach spire was completed in 1855[159] and the south aisle was added in 1864. The chancel is decorated in red and gold mosaics, containing more than 20 types of marble.[158] In 1875, the church was given a ring of eight bells, cast by Taylor of Loughborough. They were re-hung on a new steel frame in 1989.[160]

Several monuments were rescued from the medieval church and were reinstalled in St James'. The oldest is a sculpture of three skeletons, dating from around 1450, which appears to commemorate a man and two women.[153] There are two brasses dating from the reign of Elizabeth I, which record the members of two prominent local families.[154]

St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church edit

 
The former St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church is now the Korean Presbyterian Church.

A Catholic Chapel was built on Weybridge Heath in the 1830s for the private use of the Taylor Family[161] and was dedicated to St Charles Borromeo in November 1835.[162] The chapel is constructed from brick, plastered to resemble Bath Stone and has a central dome with towers to the east and west.[161] Following his abdication in 1848, Louis Philippe, King of France, moved with his family to Claremont, Esher. He attended mass at the chapel until his death in 1850. He and ten other members of his family were buried in the crypt, but their bodies were subsequently returned to France for reinterment.[163]

A church adjoining the chapel was designed by the architect, Alfred Edward Purdie, and built in 1880.[161] It served as the local Catholic Church until the congregation moved to the newly constructed Christ the Prince of Peace Church in 1989. The church was sold to the World Mission Korean Presbyterian Church in 1993 and a restoration project was awarded funding by English Heritage in 2005.[164]

Christ the Prince of Peace Catholic Church edit

Christ the Prince of Peace Catholic Church opened in Advent 1989, succeeding St Charles Borromeo and the demolished St Martin de Porres. The benches, statues and the crucifix over the altar were recovered from the old churches and installed in the new church.[162]

Weybridge United Reformed Church edit

 
Weybridge United Reformed Church

The Nonconformist community in Weybridge traces its origins to 1855, when Congregational services were conducted in a hired cottage in Thames Street for a short period.[165] Five years later, Benjamin Scott, the Chamberlain of the City of London began to hold open-air services in the town.[166]

The foundation stone of Weybridge United Reformed Church was laid on 4 July 1864 by John Remington Mills.[165][167] The church, designed in the mixed style by John Tarring,[168] was opened the following year.[165] The building is constructed of rubble masonry, dressed with ashlar, and has a square tower with a hexagonal spire.[168] Architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described the appearance of the church as "ferocious".[169]

St Mary Oatlands edit

St Mary Oatlands was founded as a chapel in the Parish of Walton-on-Thames in 1867, but two years later, became a church with its own parish. Extensions to the original structure include the tower, built in 1905, and the Chapel of the Resurrection, built in 1920.[170][171]

Weybridge Methodist Church edit

Weybridge Methodist Church was designed by the architect, Josiah Gunton, and the foundation stone was laid in June 1900. The adjacent Hayfield Hall was built in 1937. The church was severely damaged by fire in 1977, but was reopened in 1980.[172]

North West Surrey Synagogue edit

The first Jewish congregation in Weybridge began meeting in the late 1930s in Finnart House, a school for Jewish boys.[173] North West Surrey Synagogue was founded there in 1968,[173][174] but moved to new premises in Princes Road in 1981. Four years later, the congregation relocated to its current home, Horvath Close, named in honour of one of the founding members, Imre Horvath.[173] In 2021, the synagogue is affiliated to the Movement for Reform Judaism.[174][175]

Culture edit

Art edit

 
The Thames at Weybridge (1805-6) by J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851)

The Thames at Weybridge painted by J. M. W. Turner in 1805–6 is held by the Tate.[176] The Elmbridge Museum collection includes works by Charles Claude Houssard (1884–1958),[177] Edwin Lock (active 1929–1961),[178][179][180] and Nancy Wallis.[181] Guildford House Gallery holds two riverside views of Weybridge by Winifred Schofield (d. 2000).[182][183] Brooklands Museum holds a number of artworks that reference the area's motor racing and aviation heritage.[184]

Literature edit

 
19 Monument Green, the former residence of E. M. Forster

Several authors have lived in Weybridge. The writer George Meredith moved to the town with his first wife in 1849. Whilst living at Weybridge he wrote The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment, his first work of fiction, which was published in 1856.[185] He moved to Box Hill in 1868.[186] Following the Dreyfus affair, the French novelist Émile Zola (1840–1902) was exiled to England from July 1898 to June 1899, during which time he lived at the Oatlands Park Hotel.[187] The novelist E. M. Forster (1879–1970) lived at 19 Monument Green from 1904 until 1912, during which he wrote all six of his novels.[188] A plaque recording his residence in Weybridge was installed on the outside wall of his former home in the 1980s.[189] The novelist Warwick Deeping lived on Brooklands Lane from 1918 until his death in 1950.[190]

The town is mentioned in several works of literature. Chapter 12 of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1897) is entitled "What I saw of the destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton".[191] During the chapter, an armoured Martian is disabled by an artillery shell and collapses into the River Thames.[192] In John Wyndham's novel The Kraken Wakes (1953), the main characters are stopped in their attempt to reach Cornwall on a dinghy through a flooded England in the "Staines-Weybridge area".[193] In Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses (1988), Weybridge is referred to by one of Saladin Chamcha's interrogators as his place of residence.[194]

Music edit

The rock band, You Me at Six, was formed in Weybridge in 2004.[195] Four members of the group attended Brooklands College.[196][197] Amateur choirs rehearsing and performing regularly in the town include the Treble Clef Choir for ladies' voices[198] and the Weybridge Male Voice Choir.[199]

Sport and leisure edit

Cricket edit

 
Weybridge Cricket Club pavilion

Weybridge Cricket Club was formed in 1924, by the merger of two existing clubs, the oldest of which was founded before 1870. Cricket is thought to have been played on Weybridge Green since at least 1814.[note 11] In 1921, the UDC improved the ground by levelling the surface and the surrounding banking.[200]

Weybridge Vandals Cricket Club traces its origins to two clubs formed in the early 20th century. Brownacres Cricket Club was founded in 1938,[201] but changed its name to University Vandalls CC in 1953.[202] In 1975, it merged with the Olinda CC, which had been formed in 1924.[203]

Golf edit

 
St George's Hill Golf Club and Clubhouse

St George's Hill Golf Course was designed by the architect Harry Colt and the first 18 holes opened in 1913.[204] The course was constructed on land owned by W. G. Tarrant, who intended the course to complement the surrounding housing development. The original club house was burnt down in March 1920 and was replaced the same year. The future Edward VIII was president of the club from 1934 to 1935 and his brother the future George VI was also a member.[205] The German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, visited the club in 1937.[206] A second 18-hole course, also designed by Colt, was opened in 1929, but was reduced to nine holes in 1946.[205]

Silvermere Golf Course was designed by Neil Coles and Brian Huggett and opened in 1976. The 18-hole course surrounds Silvermere Lake, where Barnes Wallace tested prototypes of his bouncing bomb. Both the 17th and 18th holes require golfers to play the ball across the surface of the lake.[207]

Rowing edit

 
Weybridge Ladies Amateur Rowing Club boathouse

Weybridge Rowing Club was founded in 1881 and moved to its current premises, adjacent to Thames Lock, in 1910. Women were first admitted as members in 1910.[208][209] Weybridge Ladies Amateur Rowing Club was founded by Amy Gentry in 1926.[210] Weyfarers Rowing Club for recreational rowers was founded in September 2000.[211]

The Weybridge Community Regatta, organised by Weybridge Rowing Club, takes place on the Desborough Cut each summer.[212] The club has hosted the Weybridge Silver Sculls head since 1956. The race takes place on a 3,000 m (3,300 yd) course on the Thames.[213] The Weybridge Veterans' Head is held each year in March and includes events for juniors as well as veterans.[208]

Rugby edit

 
Weybridge Vandals rugby pitches

Weybridge Vandals RFC was founded in 1932 for members of the University of London. It was initially known as "London University Vandals RFC" and played its home matches at Motspur Park. A vulture taking off with wings raised was adopted as the club symbol.[214] The club moved to the premises of a former private zoo on Desborough Island in 1932 and, in 2003, changed its name to Weybridge Vandals RFC to reflect the location of its home ground.[215]

Shooting edit

Weybridge Rifle and Pistol Club was opened in 1901. Initially the range was at Brooklands Farm, but relocated in 1906 to allow for the construction of the racing circuit.[206] In 2021, the club has a 100-yard outdoor range for .22 calibre rifles and a 25-yard outdoor air gun range.[216]

Tennis edit

St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club was opened in 1913. It covers 16 acres (6.5 ha)[217] and has 33 courts, of which 13 are grass courts.[218] It also offers four squash courts[217] and facilities for badminton[219] and table tennis.[220]

Weybridge Lawn Tennis Club, in Walton Lane, offers five outdoor courts.[221]

Tourist attractions edit

Brooklands Museum edit

 
Aero Clubhouse, Brooklands Museum

As aircraft manufacture at Brooklands began to decline in the 1970s, BAC closed the factory buildings on the west side of the runway and the area was redeveloped for light industry, offices and retail units. The corporation also vacated a 40-acre (16 ha) site at the northern end of the former finishing straight, 30 acres of which became the Brooklands Museum.[222] The museum, which opened in 1991,[223][224] has preserved several historic buildings including the 1911 Ticket Office, the 1932 Aero Clubhouse and a 100 m (110 yd) section of track.[222][223] A wide range of vintage aircraft, racing cars and motorcycles is on display,[225] including Concorde G-BBDG,[226] a Wellington Bomber[227][note 12] and a 1927 Delage 15-S8 Grand Prix racing car.[228]

London Bus Museum edit

 
London Bus Museum

The London Bus Museum traces its origins to the mid-1960s, when the London Bus Preservation Group was formed by a number of private heritage vehicle owners. Eight years later, the group purchased a former factory in Cobham, Surrey, which was converted to a museum, opening in 1974. In 2011, the museum moved to a newly constructed building on the Brooklands Museum site.[229] Around 30 buses dating from the 1820s to the 1970s are on public display at any one time,[230] around two thirds of which are owned by the London Bus Preservation Trust and the remainder by private individuals. Entry to the museum is via a combined ticket with the Brooklands Museum.[231]

Mercedes-Benz World edit

 
Mercedes-Benz World

The German car manufacturer, Daimler AG, purchased the former Brooklands runway and the adjacent strips of land in 2002. The northern half of the site was redeveloped into a tourist attraction, Mercedes-Benz World, which was opened in October 2006.[232][233] The southern half was handed to Elmbridge Borough Council and became the Brooklands Community Park. As part of the work to construct the new attraction, the section of the motor racing circuit adjacent to the railway was restored and a new car park and entrance to the Brooklands Museum were provided.[232] Among the exhibits at Mercedes-Benz World are a number of historic racing and road cars and the attraction offers racing simulators and driving experiences.[234]

Notable buildings and landmarks edit

Memorial to Gerrard Winstanley edit

 
Memorial to Gerrard Winstanley[235][236]

The memorial to Gerrard Winstanley, located close to the railway station, was unveiled in December 2000.[235][236] It commemorates the radical leader of the Diggers or True Levellers, a group of 17th-century religious dissidents, who set up an encampment on St George's Hill. The group began to cultivate the common land on the hill in April 1649, encouraging others to join them and declaring their intention to reclaim enclosed land.[237][238] The group published several pamphlets and their philosophy has been compared to agrarian socialism[239] and modern anarchism.[240] Following harassment from local landowners and threats of legal action, the Diggers relocated to Little Heath, Cobham that August, but had been driven from the land by April 1650.[237]

Oatlands Park Hotel edit

 
Entrance gates to Oatlands Park Hotel

Following the demolition of Oatlands Palace in the mid-17th century, the surrounding hunting park passed through a series of owners until it was inherited by Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln in 1716. Clinton remodelled the estate, creating a new garden in 1725 and constructing a new house to the east of the town centre in 1725. The property was purchased by Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany in around 1790.[241] Four years later, much of the house was destroyed by fire and a new mansion, Oatlands Park, was designed by Henry Holland on the same site. It was built in the Italianate style using yellow London stock bricks,[242] but the original entrance gateway, designed in the mid-18th century by William Kent, was retained.[243][note 13]

The Duke of York sold Oatlands Park to Edward Hughes Ball Hughes in 1824, following the death of his wife four years earlier. Hughes was responsible for remodelling the house in 1827, but financial problems forced him to lease the estate to William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton a year later. The land was sold in 1846[62] and, in 1856, Oatlands Park became a hotel, when the west wing was added by the architect, Thomas Henry Wyatt.[242]

The 10 ha (25-acre) Broad Water, also known as Broadwater Lake, is located between the Oatlands Park Hotel and the River Thames.[245] It is shown as a cruciform canal on a 1737 plan of the Oatlands estate by the cartographer, John Roque,[246] and is thought to have been enlarged to its current form by 1770.[247] Today, the 1.2 km long (0.75 mi) lake runs in a shallow arc from west to north east[246] and is fed by springs close to St George's Junior School.[248] It was constructed as a trompe-l'œil and its east end appears to flow under Walton Bridge, which in fact spans the River Thames.[246][247] A new footpath along the northern bank of the lake was opened in 2017.[249][250]

Ship Hotel edit

Parts of the Ship Hotel on Monument Green are thought to date from the 16th century. Its original name, the Ship Inn, may derive from "shippin" meaning a cattle shed. In the mid-18th century, the inn was used for meetings of the manorial courts and during the Napoleonic Wars, it served as a recruiting centre for the army.[251][252]

War memorial edit

 
Weybridge War Memorial

The war memorial, designed by J. Hatchard Smith, was erected in 1923 at the south end of Monument Hill. It consists of a square column, on which a statue of a soldier is standing at ease.[253] A total of 224 people who died in the First World War, Second World War and Korean War are commemorated.[254]

Yool Memorial edit

The stone drinking fountain at the junction of Hanger Hill and Princes Road was commissioned from the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association in 1896. It commemorates Henry Yool, a local benefactor and former vice-chairman of Surrey County Council. Originally erected on Weybridge Hill, the memorial was moved to its current location in 1971.[255]

York Column edit

The York Column on Monument Green originally stood at Seven Dials in central London. The sundial pillar was commissioned by Thomas Neale in the 1690s to form the centrepiece of his housing development near Covent Garden. The monument was dismantled in 1777 and the stones were purchased by the architect, James Paine, who lived in Addlestone. In 1822 the column was erected on Monument Green in Weybridge as a memorial to the Duchess of York, who had lived at Oatlands House and who had died two years previously.[256][257] The badly weathered dialstone was not reinstalled on the monument and can be seen adjacent to Weybridge Library.[258]

Parks and open spaces edit

Brooklands Community Park edit

The 24 ha (59-acre) Brooklands Community Park was opened in 2006 on land donated by Daimler AG to Elmbridge Borough Council.[232][259][260] The formal recreation areas, which include a children's playground, multi-use games area, skatepark and an off-road cycle course, total approximately 2 ha (4.9 acres). The remainder of the park is naturalised dry-acid grassland, which provides a habitat for plants including hoary cinquefoil and yellow rattle, as well as butterfly species such as the small copper and common blue.[259] Brooklands Parkrun takes place at the Community Park on Saturday mornings.[261]

Churchfields recreation ground edit

Churchfields recreation ground was opened by Weybridge Council in 1908, on land donated by John Lyle.[262][note 14]

Monument Green edit

 
The York Column on Monument Green

Monument Green is an area of common land at the north end of the High Street, surrounding the junction between Thames Street and Monument Hill. In the 18th century, it was known as the "Bull Ring" and bull-baiting is thought to have taken place there. In the early 19th century, the village pump was located on the western side, in front of the Ship Hotel. The York Column was erected in the centre of the green in 1822. Most of the houses in the surrounding area were constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[251]

Weybridge Heath edit

Weybridge Heath, to the south of the town centre, was reserved for the use of local residents under the Inclosure Act 1800.[263] Some 16.6 ha (41 acres) are owned by Elmbridge Borough Council.[264]

Whittet's Ait edit

Whittet's Ait is an island between the River Wey and River Wey Navigation in the north of Weybridge. It is named after the owner of the former oil seed mill, which was sited next to Thames Lock.[265] Elmbridge Borough Council acquired the publicly accessible open land on the ait in 2000, to protect it for recreational use.[266]

Notable residents edit

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ The water level on the Weybridge section of the Thames was lowered in the 19th century, necessitating the addition of a third lockgate at Thames Lock, which holds back sufficient water for boats to clear the bottom cill of the original lock.[41][42]
  2. ^ A BR Standard Class 4 4-6-0 steam locomotive hauls an express service to Basingstoke through Weybridge, while an electric multiple unit waits in the bay platform to form a service via Chertsey.
  3. ^ The London and Southampton Railway Company had not intended to construct a station at Weybridge, but was required by the authorizing Act of Parliament to build two road bridges over the line near the town. Following a negotiation with the Weybridge Vestry, the company agreed to open a station on a trial basis for 12 months in exchange for being allowed to build only one bridge.[50]
  4. ^ The line was extended from Chertsey to Virginia Water in 1866.[36]
  5. ^ A triangle of railway lines to the west of Weybridge station was created when Byfleet Junction was constructed in 1885.[51]
  6. ^ The houses were designed by the architect Robert Adam (b. 1948) and were built on the site of the former Stag and Hounds public house, facing the Cricket Green.[59][60]
  7. ^ In the early modern period, Brooklands was a farm. The land was bought by the Duke of York in 1804 and, by 1835, it was in the ownership of Peter King, 7th Baron King of Ockham, Surrey. It remained in the hands of the Locke King family and was inherited by Hugh F. Locke King in 1885.[72]
  8. ^ Roe’s flight took place four years after the first powered flight by the Wright brothers and covered a distance of 79 ft (24 m) at a maximum height of 10 ft (3.0 m) above the ground.[74]
  9. ^ Thirteen BAC One-Eleven aircraft, out of a total 235, were manufactured at Brooklands. The last to be completed was flown on 19 December 1970 and no further aircraft were built at the site.[86]
  10. ^ Hammond served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019 under Prime Minister Theresa May.[106]
  11. ^ In 1814, the landlord of the Stag and Hounds public house was given permission by the vestry to landscape a former gravel pit to create the Weybridge Cricket Green.[59]
  12. ^ The Wellington Bomber on display at Brooklands Museum ditched in Loch Ness during a training flight in 1940. It was recovered in 1985 and was subsequently restored at Brooklands.[227]
  13. ^ The entrance gates were moved to their current site on Oatlands Drive in around 1858. As part of the relocation process, the Portland stone ashlar plinths were made taller and wrought iron scrollwork was added to the side gates in order to make the entrance appear grander.[243] The red brick lodges are thought to have been built when the gateway was resited.[244]
  14. ^ John Lyle was the son of sugar trader Abram Lyle.[262]
  15. ^ Vigo House was named after the 1702 Battle of Vigo Bay, part of the War of the Spanish Succession. Hopsonn led a successful attack on the French fleet and was knighted on his return to Britain.[268] Vigo House was demolished in the 1920s to make way for the relocation of Weybridge Hospital.[134]

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For other uses see Weybridge disambiguation Weybridge ˈ w eɪ b r ɪ dʒ is a town in the Elmbridge district in Surrey England around 17 mi 27 km southwest of central London The settlement is recorded as Waigebrugge and Weibrugge in the 7th century and the name derives from a crossing point of the River Wey which flows into the River Thames to the north of the town centre The earliest evidence of human activity is from the Bronze Age During the Anglo Saxon and medieval periods Weybridge was held by Chertsey Abbey In 2011 it had a population of 15 449 WeybridgeTownThe Old Bridge on the River WeyWeybridgeLocation within SurreyArea13 73 km2 5 30 sq mi Population15 449 2011 census 1 or 29 837 Built up Area which extends to Byfleet 2 Density1 125 km2 2 910 sq mi OS grid referenceTQ0764 London27 km 17 mi north eastCivil parishn aDistrictElmbridgeShire countySurreyRegionSouth EastCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townWeybridgePostcode districtKT13Dialling code01932PoliceSurreyFireSurreyAmbulanceSouth East CoastUK ParliamentRunnymede and WeybridgeList of places UK England Surrey 51 21 43 N 0 27 11 W 51 362 N 0 453 W 51 362 0 453 In the 1530s Henry VIII constructed Oatlands Palace to the north of the town centre which he intended to be the residence of his fourth wife Anne of Cleves He married Catherine Howard there in July 1540 and the palace remained a royal residence until the Civil War The buildings were demolished in the early 1650s and a new mansion Oatlands House was constructed to the east of Weybridge later the same century Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany owned the mansion in the 18th century The town began to expand beyond its medieval footprint in the early 19th century catalysed by the initial breakup of the Oatlands House estate the enclosure of Weybridge Heath and the opening of the railway station in 1838 The developer W G Tarrant was responsible for the construction of housing on St George s Hill in the first half of the 20th century The world s first purpose built racing circuit was constructed at Brooklands in 1907 The track hosted the first British Grand Prix in 1926 and was used by Malcolm Campbell to develop his final land speed record car Campbell Railton Blue Bird Throughout the 20th century Brooklands was an important location for the aerospace industry and aircraft developed and tested there included the Sopwith Camel the Wellington bomber and the Hurricane fighter Vickers established a factory at the circuit in 1915 and aircraft manufacturing continued at the site until 1988 Contents 1 Toponymy 2 Geography 2 1 Location and topography 2 2 Geology 3 History 3 1 Early history 3 2 Governance 3 3 Transport and communications 3 4 Residential development 3 5 Brooklands 3 6 Commerce and industry 3 7 Weybridge in the world wars 4 National and local government 4 1 UK parliament 4 2 County council 4 3 Borough council 5 Demography and housing 6 Transport 6 1 Public transport 6 2 River navigations 6 3 National cycle route 6 4 Long distance footpaths 7 Public services 7 1 Utilities 7 2 Emergency services 7 3 Healthcare 8 Education 8 1 Early schools 8 2 Maintained schools 8 3 Independent school 8 4 Further education 9 Places of worship 9 1 Early church 9 2 St James Church 9 3 St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church 9 4 Christ the Prince of Peace Catholic Church 9 5 Weybridge United Reformed Church 9 6 St Mary Oatlands 9 7 Weybridge Methodist Church 9 8 North West Surrey Synagogue 10 Culture 10 1 Art 10 2 Literature 10 3 Music 11 Sport and leisure 11 1 Cricket 11 2 Golf 11 3 Rowing 11 4 Rugby 11 5 Shooting 11 6 Tennis 12 Tourist attractions 12 1 Brooklands Museum 12 2 London Bus Museum 12 3 Mercedes Benz World 13 Notable buildings and landmarks 13 1 Memorial to Gerrard Winstanley 13 2 Oatlands Park Hotel 13 3 Ship Hotel 13 4 War memorial 13 5 Yool Memorial 13 6 York Column 14 Parks and open spaces 14 1 Brooklands Community Park 14 2 Churchfields recreation ground 14 3 Monument Green 14 4 Weybridge Heath 14 5 Whittet s Ait 15 Notable residents 16 See also 17 Notes 18 References 19 Bibliography 20 External linksToponymy editThe first written records of a settlement at Weybridge date from the 7th century when its name is given as Waigebrugge and Weibrugge 3 It appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Webrige and Webruge 4 and in subsequent surviving documents as Waibrigge and Wabrigge 12th century and Wybrugge and Weybrugge 13th century The name simply means Bridge over the River Wey 3 Oatlands is first recorded in 1383 as Otelands which may indicate that the area was used for the cultivation of oats 3 The earliest written record of Brooklands is from 1548 when it appears as Brokeland The name probably means marshy land 3 St George s Hill appears to have acquired its current name in the early 17th century It is recorded as Le Bery in 1337 and Oldebury in 1548 The previous name may derive from the Old English word burh which might reference the Iron Age earthworks on the hill 5 Geography editSee also Surrey Climate Location and topography edit nbsp Show town centre nbsp Show Weybridge and St George s Hill nbsp Show Borough of Elmbridge Weybridge is in northwest Surrey approximately 17 mi 27 km southwest of central London 6 7 The town centre is close to the confluence of the River Wey and the River Thames but the settlement also includes St George s Hill and Brooklands to the south 6 The highest point in Weybridge is 78 m 256 ft above ordnance datum but the low lying areas close to the rivers are only 10 20 m 33 66 ft above sea level Neighbouring settlements include Shepperton to the north Walton on Thames to the east Wisley to the south and Addlestone to the west 6 Geology edit The rock strata on which Weybridge sits were deposited in the Cenozoic The Bagshot Sands are the main outcrop to the south of the town and at Brooklands 8 From the centre of Weybridge northwards towards the Thames the surface geology is dominated by river gravels 9 Overlying the Bagshot Sands at St George s Hill is a cap of Bracklesham Clay 8 which was used for brickmaking in the 19th century 10 Ironstone containing 33 48 iron III oxide is also found on the Hill 11 along with a capping of chert gravels thought to have been deposited by a former course of the River Wey 12 History editEarly history edit The earliest evidence of human occupation in Weybridge is from the Bronze Age A number of weapons including socketed axe heads a rapier and a palstave were retrieved from the River Wey close to the Wey Bridge in 1912 13 14 At least fifty cinerary urns dating from the same period were found in the area in the 19th and early 20th centuries 13 Three of the urns were recovered from a barrow during building work on the Silvermere estate south of St George s Hill and were found to contain bones and charcoal 15 A copper alloy bucket now held by the British Museum was discovered during the construction of the Brooklands racetrack in 1907 It is thought to have originated in northern Italy in the late Bronze or early Iron Age and similar vessels have been found in Austria Belgium and Germany 16 17 During the Iron Age there was a fort on St George s Hill It covered an area of around 14 acres 5 7 ha and was protected by a rampart and ditch 18 19 Most traces of the fort were destroyed by housebuilding in the first half of the 20th century 14 Remains of a roundhouse and archaeological evidence of iron workings were discovered in the triangle of land between the railway lines in 1981 20 There is not thought to have been a significant Roman presence in Weybridge but 68 bronze coins of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries were found at Brooklands in 1907 21 Much of the hoard which included nummi from the reigns of Diocletian 284 305 CE 22 Maximian 286 305 23 Constantius I 305 306 24 and Galerius 305 311 was donated to the British Museum 25 Governance edit There are three separate entries for Weybridge in Domesday Book The first area of land described was held by Bishop Odo of Bayeux as tenant in chief and Herfrid of Throwley as lesser tenant It included 16 acres 6 5 ha of meadow and woodland for five swine with a value of 5 per annum The other two entries list areas belonging to Chertsey Abbey totalling a further 16 acres of meadow land for four swine and ploughland for 1 plough teams None of the entries records a church or a mill in the settlement 4 26 There are only sporadic surviving references to Weybridge in the following centuries A chapel is mentioned in a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander III in 1176 and a later document shows that Chertsey Abbey had sold the advowson to Newark Priory by 1200 By 1262 the Priory had obtained a license that confirmed its rights to appoint a priest to hold church property and to collect tithes from the local residents In 1284 the village was held by Geoffrey de Lucy as a lesser tenant of Chertsey Abbey 27 nbsp Oatlands Palace 17th century nbsp Entrance gateway to the former Oatlands Palace built c 1545 28 Following the dissolution of the monasteries Weybridge was held by the Rede family for three years before passing to the Crown in 1537 29 In June of the same year Henry VIII began to construct Oatlands Palace by expanding an existing late medieval manor house located to the north of the town centre Some of the stone used in the construction of the foundations was taken from the demolition of Chertsey Abbey 30 Henry had intended that the palace would become the residence of his fourth wife Anne of Cleves but the marriage was annulled after six months 30 The king married his fifth wife Catherine Howard at Oatlands but rarely visited thereafter 31 Following Henry s death the palace remained a possession of the Crown until the Commonwealth when the contents were sold and the buildings demolished 32 Only a side entrance gate and adjoining sections of walls which date from c 1545 remain 28 Reforms during the Tudor period reduced the importance of manorial courts and the day to day administration of towns such as Weybridge became the responsibility of the vestry of the parish church 33 The Weybridge vestry oversaw the distribution of poor relief and the maintenance of local roads In the 1840s responsibility for poor relief was transferred to the Chertsey Board of Guardians of the Poor Local drainage and highways boards were established in the 1860s and in the 1870s a burial board was created to purchase land for new cemeteries 34 The Local Government Act 1888 transferred many administrative responsibilities to the newly formed Surrey County Council and was followed by an 1894 Act that created the Weybridge Urban District Council UDC Initially the council met at the National school but moved to Aberdeen House at the junction of High Street and Baker Street in 1908 As a result of the Local Government Act 1929 the UDCs of Weybridge and Walton were combined in 1932 In 1951 the civil parish of Weybridge had a population of 8083 35 On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished The unified council was merged with the Esher UDC to form Elmbridge Borough Council in 1974 34 Transport and communications edit The name Weybridge suggests that there has been a bridge over the River Wey in the area since Anglo Saxon times During the Elizabethan period the bridge was a wooden structure 240 ft 73 m long and 5 25 ft 1 60 m wide and was maintained by Elizabeth I in her capacity as lord of the manor 36 The structure was rebuilt in 1808 on 13 wooden arches The present bridge dates from 1865 and is constructed from brick iron and stone 36 37 A second bridge downstream of the first was completed in 1945 and now carries the A317 36 nbsp Thames Lock Wey Navigation Both the Thames and the Wey have been used for transport since ancient times By the 14th century there was a wharf at Weybridge used for shipment of timber 36 and in 1463 Thomas Warner was given permission to build a dock on his land which became known as the Crown Wharf 38 In 1537 materials for the construction of Oatlands Palace were transported to Weybridge by river 36 The River Wey Navigation was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1651 Twelve locks including two flood locks and 9 mi 14 km of new cuts were constructed between the Thames and Guildford 39 40 Thames Lock was rebuilt in concrete in the 1930s but like all the locks on the Wey it was originally turf sided 41 note 1 The earliest locks on the upper Thames were built in the 17th century following the establishment of the Oxford Burcot Commission 43 However efforts to improve the stretch of the river through Weybridge did not start until the following century In 1789 a flash lock was installed at Sunbury but was replaced by a pound lock in 1812 44 Shepperton Lock opened the following year 45 The construction of the locks regulated the flow of the river and increased its depth facilitating navigation and maintaining an adequate head of water to power mills 46 The River Thames through Weybridge was further improved when the Desborough Cut was opened in 1935 The 100 ft wide 30 m navigable channel bypasses a three mile 5 km meander and was primarily designed to increase the flood capacity of the river 47 Construction of the cut created the 45 ha 110 acre Desborough Island 48 the entirety of which is in Weybridge 6 nbsp Weybridge railway station 1958 note 2 The London and Southampton Railway Company opened the station at Weybridge in May 1838 49 note 3 Initially the station had two platforms and was in a deep cutting between St George s Hill and Weybridge Heath The typical journey time to London was around an hour and by 1841 a mail train was stopping daily A junction was created to the west of the station in 1848 when the line to Chertsey was constructed 36 note 4 note 5 Additional tracks on the main line through the station were added in 1885 52 and 1902 53 The lines through the station were electrified in 1907 54 although steam locomotives continued to haul long distance express services through Weybridge until 1967 36 The goods yard was closed in 1964 and signal boxes in the local area were shut in March 1970 when control of the lines was transferred to Surbiton Panel Box 55 An arson attack in January 1987 resulted in the destruction of the 1904 station building 56 A manual telephone exchange opened in Weybridge in 1912 and was replaced in 1954 by an automated facility in Heath Road which had sufficient capacity for 2500 lines 57 Residential development edit Although Weybridge was still only a small village in the early 18th century a high proportion of the residents were members of the aristocracy In 1724 the rector noted that it was increasingly becoming a place for gentile retirement and recorded eighteen upper class families living in the area 58 The settlement was dominated by two estates Portmore Park to the north west of the centre was the seat of the Colyear family the Earls of Portmore Oatlands Park to the east had been built on the former deer park belonging to Oatlands Palace and was purchased by Prince Frederick the Duke of York and Albany in 1790 nbsp Georgian style houses at the north end of Hanger Hill constructed in the late 1990s note 6 Towards the end of the 18th century Weybridge was beginning to expand beyond its medieval footprint In 1800 Weybridge Heath an area of common land to the south east of the village centre was enclosed The Act of Inclosure enabled the Duke of York to purchase almost the whole of St George s Hill and to add it to the Oatlands Estate Four years later Hanger Hill one of the roads running across the heath was laid out and plots alongside it were sold for housebuilding 61 The Duke of York sold Oatlands Park in 1824 but the new owner Edward Hughes Ball Hughes was forced to lease the house and the surrounding 900 acres 360 ha to Francis Egerton 1st Earl of Ellesmere three years later 62 The remainder of the Oatlands estate was sold in stages between 1828 and 1846 Housebuilding began almost as soon as the land was released stimulated in part by the opening of Weybridge railway station in 1838 The majority of the houses in Oatlands village were completed by 1859 63 64 Oatlands Park House was sold to the developer W G Tarrant in 1909 63 nbsp Entrance gateway to the former Portmore Park estate The west side of Weybridge High Street was developed when the Portmore Park estate was broken up in 1880s 65 The estate approximately covering the area between the High Street and the River Wey had been established by Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk in the 1670s It was purchased by the Locke King family in 1861 who sold the land for residential development in the final decades of the 19th century 66 St George s Hill was developed by W G Tarrant who bought 936 acres 379 ha of land from the Edgerton family in 1911 A year later he began the construction of the Tennis and Golf Clubs and published a series of promotions in the Surrey Herald to advertise the houses that he intended to build 67 Strict covenants were imposed on the development and the minimum size of each property was fixed as one acre 0 40 ha Construction was interrupted by the First World War but resumed shortly afterwards continuing until the start of the Great Depression in the late 1920s 68 The first council housing in the town was built by the Weybridge UDC between 1923 and 1927 when 160 houses were constructed on the Old Palace Gardens estate Following the end of the Second World War the Weybridge and Walton UDC built over 1000 houses in the two towns 69 Brooklands edit nbsp Brooklands 1907 Main article Brooklands Brooklands the first purpose built motor racing circuit in the world opened in 1907 70 Constructed on farmland to the south of Weybridge the concrete track was designed by Capel Lofft Holden and had a total length of 2 75 mi 4 43 km 71 note 7 The first races for motorcars took place in July 1907 and for motorcycles in February the following year Both attracted a large number of entrants from across Europe 73 74 75 and by 1911 the British Automobile Racing Club had established a programme of regular race meetings 76 Motor racing ceased for the duration of the First World War and did not resume until 1920 The first two British Grands Prix took place at the circuit in 1926 and 1927 77 The JCC 200 Mile race also took place at the circuit from 1921 to 1928 and again in 1938 In the early 1930s Malcolm Campbell developed the Campbell Railton Blue Bird his final land speed record car at Brooklands Racing ceased for a second time at the outbreak of the Second World War 78 nbsp Vickers factory 1930 Brooklands also played a key role in the development of the British aeronautical industry In 1907 the aviation pioneer A V Roe performed the first flight by a British built aeroplane at the circuit shortly after it opened in 1907 74 note 8 By 1912 several flying schools had been established at Brooklands and the Vickers company began manufacturing aircraft in 1915 79 The Sopwith Camel was among several aircraft developed at Brooklands during the First World War 80 Aircraft manufacture continued during the 1920s and 1930s Among those working at the Vickers factory was Barnes Wallis who was involved in designing the Wellesley and the Wellington bombers The Hawker Aircraft company opened a factory at Brooklands in 1935 and began building prototypes of the Hurricane fighter 81 Aircraft manufacture intensified during the Second World War and new factories warehouses and hangars were rapidly built encroaching onto the racing circuit The track was breached near Byfleet to improve access for deliveries to the site and a large workshop was cut into the concrete at the north end 82 Following the end of hostilities in 1945 the track was considered to be in such poor condition that a resumption of motor racing was ruled impossible 83 In the late 1940s and 1950s the manufacturers based at Brooklands started to transition towards the production of civilian airliners Vickers began producing the VC series of aircraft with the VC1 Viking in 1945 84 The VC10 was launched in 1964 by which point the company had been nationalised as the British Aircraft Corporation BAC 85 Increasingly BAC began to refocus manufacturing at Brooklands to the production of aircraft parts with final assembly elsewhere 86 note 9 Components of the British built Concordes were manufactured at the site in the late 1960s and early 1970s In 1977 BAC merged with Hawker Siddeley to form British Aerospace 86 and the combined entity began to run down the Brooklands site Aerospace manufacturing finally ceased in Weybridge in 1988 87 88 Commerce and industry edit Although no mill is mentioned in the Weybridge entries in the Domesday book watermills appear to have played an important role in the economy of the area since at least the early modern period The earliest record of a mill in the town is from 1693 when a paper mill was built at the confluence of the Wey and Thames 89 Ironstone was quarried from Weybridge Heath and St George s Hill although the dates of these workings are uncertain 18 20 In the late 17th and early 18th centuries iron was smelted at a mill on Whittet s Ait and there is reference to iron and steel manufacture taking place at two mills in Byfleet in 1760 The Whittet s Ait mill appears to have been used as a Brass Wire Mill in the 1760s and the machinery required for iron smelting had been fitted by 1769 89 nbsp Apartments on the site of the former oil seed mill at Thames Lock 90 A mill for grinding malt was built on the Wey upstream of Thames Lock in around 1819 but had fallen into disrepair by 1830 In 1842 a new mill for extracting vegetable oil from seeds was built on the same site 89 and the Whittet s Ait mill was also being used for the same purpose by the 1930s In the 1970s Whittet s Ait was the site of a solvent refinery 91 For much of the 20th century Weybridge was a centre for the aerospace industry The Lang Propeller Works was established on Whittet s Ait in 1913 87 92 and in 1915 the Vickers company took over the Itala motor works at Brooklands The circuit was also the base for several other aircraft manufacturers including Avro Sopwith and Bleriot 93 As of 2021 the European headquarters of Sony 94 and the UK headquarters of Procter amp Gamble are at Brooklands 95 Weybridge in the world wars edit At the start of the First World War Weybridge became a training base for the 244 Motorised Transport Company an army unit of mechanics and drivers operating as part of the 19th Divisional Supply Column The company served throughout the war in the Gallipoli and Balkans campaigns 96 There were two military hospitals in Oatlands Barnham Lodge opened as a 35 bed hospital in 1915 and by 1917 a small operating theatre was in use and the facility was being run by the British Red Cross Oatlands Park Hotel was requisitioned in 1916 as a hospital for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and was primarily used to treat medical amp tuberculosis cases and limbless men 97 Ethel Locke King the chair of the Chertsey branch of the Red Cross was instrumental in establishing 15 hospitals in the local area during the First World War 98 She also organised a rest station for troops at Weybridge railway station 96 In January 1918 Locke King became a Dame Commander of the British Empire 98 The presence of the Vickers aircraft factory made Weybridge an obvious target for enemy bombing during the Second World War 99 The defence of the town was coordinated by the 3rd Surrey Battalion of the Home Guard 100 and five platoons of the C company were stationed at Brooklands 101 The local civil defence headquarters were established at the UDC offices in Aberdeen House and the council built a large air raid shelter at the Churchfields Recreation Ground Serious bombing began in the local area in August 1940 and by December of that year 97 residents had died and 1300 houses had been damaged 99 A devastating air raid took place on the Vickers plant in September 1940 when 83 people were killed 102 A 500 lb 230 kg bomb landed on the floor of the factory but failed to explode Five men of the Royal Canadian Engineers successfully removed the bomb from the building before it exploded Lieutenant John Patton was subsequently awarded the George Cross for his role in the incident 103 Later in the war 19 V 1 flying bombs landed in the Weybridge and Walton area 99 National and local government editUK parliament edit The town is in the parliamentary constituency of Runnymede and Weybridge and has been represented at Westminster since May 2019 by Conservative Ben Spencer 104 105 Between 1997 and 2019 the constituency was represented by Philip Hammond who was elevated to the House of Lords as Lord Hammond of Runnymede in 2020 106 note 10 County council edit Councillors are elected to Surrey County Council every four years The majority of the town is in the Weybridge electoral division but areas to the east of the centre are in the Walton South and Oatlands and Hersham electoral divisions 107 108 Borough council edit Weybridge is divided between three wards each of which elect three councillors to Elmbridge Borough Council The three wards are Oatlands and Burwood Park Weybridge Riverside and Weybridge St George s Hill 108 109 Between 1966 and 2009 the Borough of Elmbridge was twinned with Rueil Malmaison in northern France 110 Demography and housing edit2011 Census Key Statistics 1 2 Output area Population Households Owned outright Owned with a loan hectares Weybridge North 4 347 1 914 27 37 233 Weybridge South 4 600 2 088 31 33 202 St George s Hill 6 502 2 567 33 40 938 Regional average 35 1 32 5 2011 Census Homes 1 2 Output area Detached Semi detached Terraced Flats and apartments Caravans temporary mobile homes Shared between households Weybridge North 439 435 398 642 0 0 Weybridge South 499 328 336 908 2 15 St George s Hill 1 152 379 340 696 0 0 Across the South East Region 28 of homes were detached houses and 22 6 were apartments 2 Transport editPublic transport edit nbsp Weybridge station building Weybridge railway station is to the south of the town centre It is managed by South Western Railway which operates all services Trains run to London Waterloo via Clapham Junction and to Woking 111 Weybridge is linked by bus to surrounding towns and villages in north Surrey and south west London Operators serving the town include Arriva Diamond Bus the East Surrey Rural Transport Partnership and Falcon Buses 112 River navigations edit The non tidal section of the River Thames is navigable between Lechlade in Gloucestershire and Teddington Lock The navigation authority is the Environment Agency 113 The River Wey is navigable from Weybridge to Godalming and the navigation authority is the National Trust 114 National cycle route edit National Cycle Route 4 which links London to Fishguard passes through Weybridge 115 Long distance footpaths edit The Thames Path runs along the south bank of the River Thames to the north of the town centre 116 Public services editUtilities edit Weybridge received its first drinking water supply in 1869 when the West Surrey Water Company was formed The water was abstracted from the Thames at Walton where it was filtered and then pumped to a storage reservoir on St George s Hill In 1960 the company became part of the Woking and District Water Company 117 118 Today Affinity Water is responsible for supplying the town with drinking water 119 The first wastewater treatment works in the town was built at Brooklands Farm in 1895 The works were principally a series of sewage lagoons but were upgraded in 1939 to filter beds which were considered less conspicuous to enemy aircraft The present works in the triangle formed by the railway lines to the west of Weybridge station were opened in 1973 120 Treated water is discharged into the River Wey 121 The Walton upon Thames and Weybridge Gas Company was incorporated in 1869 120 It was taken over by the Wandsworth Gas Company in Oct 1936 122 nbsp The former power station in Church Walk 123 In 1890 Weybridge became the first town in Britain to have electric street lighting using incandescent filament bulbs 123 The power station in Church Walk was capable of generating 70 kW and operated for six years before its closure in 1896 In 1902 a new station was opened in Thames Street with an initial installed capacity of 180 kW which had risen to 700 kW by the time of its closure 20 years later From 1922 electricity was supplied to the town by the Twickenham and Teddington Electricity Supply Company 120 123 Emergency services edit Weybridge Fire Brigade was formed 1874 and was initially equipped with a horse drawn manual engine with leather hoses 124 In 1881 the brigade moved to new building in Balfour Road 125 and a steam driven fire engine was purchased in 1902 126 In 1921 the Weybridge brigade was made responsible for attending fires in Cobham 127 The merger of Weybridge and Walton UDCs in 1933 resulted in the fire brigades of the two towns being combined into one single unit 128 Weybridge Police Station opened 1908 and closed in 1968 129 In 2021 the fire authority for Weybridge is Surrey County Council and the statutory fire service is Surrey Fire and Rescue Service 130 Ambulance services are run by the South East Coast Ambulance Service 131 The local police force is Surrey Police and the nearest police station to the town is at Esher 132 Healthcare edit Weybridge Cottage Hospital was opened in 1889 in Balfour Road on land belonging to Ethel Locke King 133 It was replaced in 1928 by a new facility on the site of Vigo House in Church Street 134 The hospital became part of the National Health Service in 1948 and in the early 1960s an additional wing was constructed In 1999 a new hospital was opened adjacent to the old which was subsequently demolished 135 In July 2017 the building was destroyed by fire most probably caused by an electrical fault 136 137 The nearest hospital with an A amp E is St Peter s Hospital Chertsey 4 8 km 3 0 mi from Weybridge 138 As of 2021 the town has two GP practices both of which are housed in the Health Centre on Church Street 139 Education editEarly schools edit The first recorded school in Weybridge was a Dame School for 12 children founded c 1650 in Baker Street 140 A charity school for poor children was founded in Weybridge in 1732 by Elizabeth Hopton and was incorporated into a new Parochial School in 1813 A second small parochial school was founded on the Oatlands estate in 1862 and was enlarged in 1874 to accommodate 201 children 141 Maintained schools edit nbsp Heathside School Brooklands Lane There are several Primary Schools in Weybridge St Charles Borromeo Catholic Primary School was founded in Heath Road in 1881 141 It educates around 210 pupils aged from 4 to 11 142 Cleves School in Oatlands Avenue became an academy in November 2010 143 St James Church of England Primary School is in Grotto Road 144 Heathside School in Brooklands Lane is a co educational secondary school for students aged 11 to 18 It opened in 1966 145 Independent school edit nbsp St George s College Junior School Thames Street St George s College Junior School is a coeducational Catholic school for pupils aged 3 to 11 146 It moved from the main school campus in Addlestone to Thames Street in 2000 147 The site to the north of Weybridge town centre had previously been occupied by a school for girls founded in 1898 by the nuns of Les Dames de St Maur 141 Further education edit Brooklands College opened in 1951 as the Brooklands Technical College 148 Its Weybridge campus is built around the former Brooklands House a Grade II listed building which was once the home of the Locke King family 149 The mansion was originally constructed in 1860 but was rebuilt by the architect Reginald Blomfield in a Queen Anne style in 1891 150 Brooklands College merged with Spelthorne College in Ashford in 2007 151 It now operates across two campuses and educates over 1 600 students Higher education courses are offered in association with Oxford Brookes and Kingston Universities 148 Places of worship editSee also List of places of worship in Elmbridge Early church edit nbsp Weybridge Parish Church published 1847 152 There is no mention of a church at Weybridge in the Domesday Book 26 and the first record of a place of worship is in 1175 in which a chapel in the town is listed as a dependent of Chertsey Abbey 153 During the Reformation several valuable items including chalices and a paten were seized from the Weybridge church by the King s commissioners The font was buried under the floor of the building at around the same time possibly to prevent it being confiscated 154 Major renovations to Weybridge church were carried out in 1722 including the construction of a south aisle 155 The congregation increased in size in the first half of the 19th century as the population of the town expanded By the middle of the century it was clear that a larger building was required and so the church was demolished in 1848 and replaced by the present St James 156 A portion of a fresco from the old church was saved and is held by Elmbridge Museum 157 St James Church edit nbsp St James Church The Anglican parish church of St James was built in 1848 to replace the earlier church It was designed by the architect John Loughborough Pearson in the Early English Gothic Revival style It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with a plain tiled roof 158 The broach spire was completed in 1855 159 and the south aisle was added in 1864 The chancel is decorated in red and gold mosaics containing more than 20 types of marble 158 In 1875 the church was given a ring of eight bells cast by Taylor of Loughborough They were re hung on a new steel frame in 1989 160 Several monuments were rescued from the medieval church and were reinstalled in St James The oldest is a sculpture of three skeletons dating from around 1450 which appears to commemorate a man and two women 153 There are two brasses dating from the reign of Elizabeth I which record the members of two prominent local families 154 St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church edit nbsp The former St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church is now the Korean Presbyterian Church A Catholic Chapel was built on Weybridge Heath in the 1830s for the private use of the Taylor Family 161 and was dedicated to St Charles Borromeo in November 1835 162 The chapel is constructed from brick plastered to resemble Bath Stone and has a central dome with towers to the east and west 161 Following his abdication in 1848 Louis Philippe King of France moved with his family to Claremont Esher He attended mass at the chapel until his death in 1850 He and ten other members of his family were buried in the crypt but their bodies were subsequently returned to France for reinterment 163 A church adjoining the chapel was designed by the architect Alfred Edward Purdie and built in 1880 161 It served as the local Catholic Church until the congregation moved to the newly constructed Christ the Prince of Peace Church in 1989 The church was sold to the World Mission Korean Presbyterian Church in 1993 and a restoration project was awarded funding by English Heritage in 2005 164 Christ the Prince of Peace Catholic Church edit Christ the Prince of Peace Catholic Church opened in Advent 1989 succeeding St Charles Borromeo and the demolished St Martin de Porres The benches statues and the crucifix over the altar were recovered from the old churches and installed in the new church 162 Weybridge United Reformed Church edit nbsp Weybridge United Reformed Church The Nonconformist community in Weybridge traces its origins to 1855 when Congregational services were conducted in a hired cottage in Thames Street for a short period 165 Five years later Benjamin Scott the Chamberlain of the City of London began to hold open air services in the town 166 The foundation stone of Weybridge United Reformed Church was laid on 4 July 1864 by John Remington Mills 165 167 The church designed in the mixed style by John Tarring 168 was opened the following year 165 The building is constructed of rubble masonry dressed with ashlar and has a square tower with a hexagonal spire 168 Architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described the appearance of the church as ferocious 169 St Mary Oatlands edit St Mary Oatlands was founded as a chapel in the Parish of Walton on Thames in 1867 but two years later became a church with its own parish Extensions to the original structure include the tower built in 1905 and the Chapel of the Resurrection built in 1920 170 171 Weybridge Methodist Church edit Weybridge Methodist Church was designed by the architect Josiah Gunton and the foundation stone was laid in June 1900 The adjacent Hayfield Hall was built in 1937 The church was severely damaged by fire in 1977 but was reopened in 1980 172 North West Surrey Synagogue edit The first Jewish congregation in Weybridge began meeting in the late 1930s in Finnart House a school for Jewish boys 173 North West Surrey Synagogue was founded there in 1968 173 174 but moved to new premises in Princes Road in 1981 Four years later the congregation relocated to its current home Horvath Close named in honour of one of the founding members Imre Horvath 173 In 2021 the synagogue is affiliated to the Movement for Reform Judaism 174 175 Culture editArt edit nbsp The Thames at Weybridge 1805 6 by J M W Turner 1775 1851 The Thames at Weybridge painted by J M W Turner in 1805 6 is held by the Tate 176 The Elmbridge Museum collection includes works by Charles Claude Houssard 1884 1958 177 Edwin Lock active 1929 1961 178 179 180 and Nancy Wallis 181 Guildford House Gallery holds two riverside views of Weybridge by Winifred Schofield d 2000 182 183 Brooklands Museum holds a number of artworks that reference the area s motor racing and aviation heritage 184 Literature edit nbsp 19 Monument Green the former residence of E M Forster Several authors have lived in Weybridge The writer George Meredith moved to the town with his first wife in 1849 Whilst living at Weybridge he wrote The Shaving of Shagpat An Arabian Entertainment his first work of fiction which was published in 1856 185 He moved to Box Hill in 1868 186 Following the Dreyfus affair the French novelist Emile Zola 1840 1902 was exiled to England from July 1898 to June 1899 during which time he lived at the Oatlands Park Hotel 187 The novelist E M Forster 1879 1970 lived at 19 Monument Green from 1904 until 1912 during which he wrote all six of his novels 188 A plaque recording his residence in Weybridge was installed on the outside wall of his former home in the 1980s 189 The novelist Warwick Deeping lived on Brooklands Lane from 1918 until his death in 1950 190 The town is mentioned in several works of literature Chapter 12 of H G Wells novel The War of the Worlds 1897 is entitled What I saw of the destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton 191 During the chapter an armoured Martian is disabled by an artillery shell and collapses into the River Thames 192 In John Wyndham s novel The Kraken Wakes 1953 the main characters are stopped in their attempt to reach Cornwall on a dinghy through a flooded England in the Staines Weybridge area 193 In Salman Rushdie s novel The Satanic Verses 1988 Weybridge is referred to by one of Saladin Chamcha s interrogators as his place of residence 194 Music edit The rock band You Me at Six was formed in Weybridge in 2004 195 Four members of the group attended Brooklands College 196 197 Amateur choirs rehearsing and performing regularly in the town include the Treble Clef Choir for ladies voices 198 and the Weybridge Male Voice Choir 199 Sport and leisure editCricket edit nbsp Weybridge Cricket Club pavilion Weybridge Cricket Club was formed in 1924 by the merger of two existing clubs the oldest of which was founded before 1870 Cricket is thought to have been played on Weybridge Green since at least 1814 note 11 In 1921 the UDC improved the ground by levelling the surface and the surrounding banking 200 Weybridge Vandals Cricket Club traces its origins to two clubs formed in the early 20th century Brownacres Cricket Club was founded in 1938 201 but changed its name to University Vandalls CC in 1953 202 In 1975 it merged with the Olinda CC which had been formed in 1924 203 Golf edit nbsp St George s Hill Golf Club and Clubhouse St George s Hill Golf Course was designed by the architect Harry Colt and the first 18 holes opened in 1913 204 The course was constructed on land owned by W G Tarrant who intended the course to complement the surrounding housing development The original club house was burnt down in March 1920 and was replaced the same year The future Edward VIII was president of the club from 1934 to 1935 and his brother the future George VI was also a member 205 The German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop visited the club in 1937 206 A second 18 hole course also designed by Colt was opened in 1929 but was reduced to nine holes in 1946 205 Silvermere Golf Course was designed by Neil Coles and Brian Huggett and opened in 1976 The 18 hole course surrounds Silvermere Lake where Barnes Wallace tested prototypes of his bouncing bomb Both the 17th and 18th holes require golfers to play the ball across the surface of the lake 207 Rowing edit nbsp Weybridge Ladies Amateur Rowing Club boathouse Weybridge Rowing Club was founded in 1881 and moved to its current premises adjacent to Thames Lock in 1910 Women were first admitted as members in 1910 208 209 Weybridge Ladies Amateur Rowing Club was founded by Amy Gentry in 1926 210 Weyfarers Rowing Club for recreational rowers was founded in September 2000 211 The Weybridge Community Regatta organised by Weybridge Rowing Club takes place on the Desborough Cut each summer 212 The club has hosted the Weybridge Silver Sculls head since 1956 The race takes place on a 3 000 m 3 300 yd course on the Thames 213 The Weybridge Veterans Head is held each year in March and includes events for juniors as well as veterans 208 Rugby edit nbsp Weybridge Vandals rugby pitches Weybridge Vandals RFC was founded in 1932 for members of the University of London It was initially known as London University Vandals RFC and played its home matches at Motspur Park A vulture taking off with wings raised was adopted as the club symbol 214 The club moved to the premises of a former private zoo on Desborough Island in 1932 and in 2003 changed its name to Weybridge Vandals RFC to reflect the location of its home ground 215 Shooting edit Weybridge Rifle and Pistol Club was opened in 1901 Initially the range was at Brooklands Farm but relocated in 1906 to allow for the construction of the racing circuit 206 In 2021 the club has a 100 yard outdoor range for 22 calibre rifles and a 25 yard outdoor air gun range 216 Tennis edit St George s Hill Lawn Tennis Club was opened in 1913 It covers 16 acres 6 5 ha 217 and has 33 courts of which 13 are grass courts 218 It also offers four squash courts 217 and facilities for badminton 219 and table tennis 220 Weybridge Lawn Tennis Club in Walton Lane offers five outdoor courts 221 Tourist attractions editBrooklands Museum edit nbsp Aero Clubhouse Brooklands Museum Main article Brooklands Museum As aircraft manufacture at Brooklands began to decline in the 1970s BAC closed the factory buildings on the west side of the runway and the area was redeveloped for light industry offices and retail units The corporation also vacated a 40 acre 16 ha site at the northern end of the former finishing straight 30 acres of which became the Brooklands Museum 222 The museum which opened in 1991 223 224 has preserved several historic buildings including the 1911 Ticket Office the 1932 Aero Clubhouse and a 100 m 110 yd section of track 222 223 A wide range of vintage aircraft racing cars and motorcycles is on display 225 including Concorde G BBDG 226 a Wellington Bomber 227 note 12 and a 1927 Delage 15 S8 Grand Prix racing car 228 London Bus Museum edit nbsp London Bus Museum Main article London Bus Museum The London Bus Museum traces its origins to the mid 1960s when the London Bus Preservation Group was formed by a number of private heritage vehicle owners Eight years later the group purchased a former factory in Cobham Surrey which was converted to a museum opening in 1974 In 2011 the museum moved to a newly constructed building on the Brooklands Museum site 229 Around 30 buses dating from the 1820s to the 1970s are on public display at any one time 230 around two thirds of which are owned by the London Bus Preservation Trust and the remainder by private individuals Entry to the museum is via a combined ticket with the Brooklands Museum 231 Mercedes Benz World edit nbsp Mercedes Benz World Main article Mercedes Benz World The German car manufacturer Daimler AG purchased the former Brooklands runway and the adjacent strips of land in 2002 The northern half of the site was redeveloped into a tourist attraction Mercedes Benz World which was opened in October 2006 232 233 The southern half was handed to Elmbridge Borough Council and became the Brooklands Community Park As part of the work to construct the new attraction the section of the motor racing circuit adjacent to the railway was restored and a new car park and entrance to the Brooklands Museum were provided 232 Among the exhibits at Mercedes Benz World are a number of historic racing and road cars and the attraction offers racing simulators and driving experiences 234 Notable buildings and landmarks editMemorial to Gerrard Winstanley edit nbsp Memorial to Gerrard Winstanley 235 236 The memorial to Gerrard Winstanley located close to the railway station was unveiled in December 2000 235 236 It commemorates the radical leader of the Diggers or True Levellers a group of 17th century religious dissidents who set up an encampment on St George s Hill The group began to cultivate the common land on the hill in April 1649 encouraging others to join them and declaring their intention to reclaim enclosed land 237 238 The group published several pamphlets and their philosophy has been compared to agrarian socialism 239 and modern anarchism 240 Following harassment from local landowners and threats of legal action the Diggers relocated to Little Heath Cobham that August but had been driven from the land by April 1650 237 Oatlands Park Hotel edit nbsp Entrance gates to Oatlands Park Hotel Following the demolition of Oatlands Palace in the mid 17th century the surrounding hunting park passed through a series of owners until it was inherited by Henry Clinton 7th Earl of Lincoln in 1716 Clinton remodelled the estate creating a new garden in 1725 and constructing a new house to the east of the town centre in 1725 The property was purchased by Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany in around 1790 241 Four years later much of the house was destroyed by fire and a new mansion Oatlands Park was designed by Henry Holland on the same site It was built in the Italianate style using yellow London stock bricks 242 but the original entrance gateway designed in the mid 18th century by William Kent was retained 243 note 13 The Duke of York sold Oatlands Park to Edward Hughes Ball Hughes in 1824 following the death of his wife four years earlier Hughes was responsible for remodelling the house in 1827 but financial problems forced him to lease the estate to William Egerton 1st Baron Egerton a year later The land was sold in 1846 62 and in 1856 Oatlands Park became a hotel when the west wing was added by the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt 242 The 10 ha 25 acre Broad Water also known as Broadwater Lake is located between the Oatlands Park Hotel and the River Thames 245 It is shown as a cruciform canal on a 1737 plan of the Oatlands estate by the cartographer John Roque 246 and is thought to have been enlarged to its current form by 1770 247 Today the 1 2 km long 0 75 mi lake runs in a shallow arc from west to north east 246 and is fed by springs close to St George s Junior School 248 It was constructed as a trompe l œil and its east end appears to flow under Walton Bridge which in fact spans the River Thames 246 247 A new footpath along the northern bank of the lake was opened in 2017 249 250 Ship Hotel edit Parts of the Ship Hotel on Monument Green are thought to date from the 16th century Its original name the Ship Inn may derive from shippin meaning a cattle shed In the mid 18th century the inn was used for meetings of the manorial courts and during the Napoleonic Wars it served as a recruiting centre for the army 251 252 War memorial edit nbsp Weybridge War Memorial The war memorial designed by J Hatchard Smith was erected in 1923 at the south end of Monument Hill It consists of a square column on which a statue of a soldier is standing at ease 253 A total of 224 people who died in the First World War Second World War and Korean War are commemorated 254 Yool Memorial edit The stone drinking fountain at the junction of Hanger Hill and Princes Road was commissioned from the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association in 1896 It commemorates Henry Yool a local benefactor and former vice chairman of Surrey County Council Originally erected on Weybridge Hill the memorial was moved to its current location in 1971 255 York Column edit The York Column on Monument Green originally stood at Seven Dials in central London The sundial pillar was commissioned by Thomas Neale in the 1690s to form the centrepiece of his housing development near Covent Garden The monument was dismantled in 1777 and the stones were purchased by the architect James Paine who lived in Addlestone In 1822 the column was erected on Monument Green in Weybridge as a memorial to the Duchess of York who had lived at Oatlands House and who had died two years previously 256 257 The badly weathered dialstone was not reinstalled on the monument and can be seen adjacent to Weybridge Library 258 Parks and open spaces editBrooklands Community Park edit The 24 ha 59 acre Brooklands Community Park was opened in 2006 on land donated by Daimler AG to Elmbridge Borough Council 232 259 260 The formal recreation areas which include a children s playground multi use games area skatepark and an off road cycle course total approximately 2 ha 4 9 acres The remainder of the park is naturalised dry acid grassland which provides a habitat for plants including hoary cinquefoil and yellow rattle as well as butterfly species such as the small copper and common blue 259 Brooklands Parkrun takes place at the Community Park on Saturday mornings 261 Churchfields recreation ground edit Churchfields recreation ground was opened by Weybridge Council in 1908 on land donated by John Lyle 262 note 14 Monument Green edit nbsp The York Column on Monument Green Monument Green is an area of common land at the north end of the High Street surrounding the junction between Thames Street and Monument Hill In the 18th century it was known as the Bull Ring and bull baiting is thought to have taken place there In the early 19th century the village pump was located on the western side in front of the Ship Hotel The York Column was erected in the centre of the green in 1822 Most of the houses in the surrounding area were constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries 251 Weybridge Heath edit Main article Weybridge Heath Weybridge Heath to the south of the town centre was reserved for the use of local residents under the Inclosure Act 1800 263 Some 16 6 ha 41 acres are owned by Elmbridge Borough Council 264 Whittet s Ait edit Whittet s Ait is an island between the River Wey and River Wey Navigation in the north of Weybridge It is named after the owner of the former oil seed mill which was sited next to Thames Lock 265 Elmbridge Borough Council acquired the publicly accessible open land on the ait in 2000 to protect it for recreational use 266 Notable residents editSee also Category People from Weybridge Thomas Hopsonn 1643 1717 Vice admiral moved to Weybridge in 1702 He built Vigo House and is buried in St James Church 267 268 note 15 David Colyear 1st Earl of Portmore c 1656 1730 army officer and Governor of Gibraltar lived at Portmore Park 269 Fanny Kemble 1809 1893 author actor and anti slavery campaigner lived at Eastlands Brooklands Road 270 271 Benjamin Scott 1814 1892 Chamberlain of the City of London lived at Heath House now named Lorimar House founded the Congregational chapel now Weybridge United Reformed Church 272 273 George Fergusson Wilson 1822 1902 industrial chemist lived at Weybridge from 1863 until his death 274 Lionel Smith Beale 1828 1906 physician and microscopist lived in Weybridge from 1885 to 1904 275 Elizabeth Dawes 1864 1954 classical scholar and teacher lived and taught in Weybridge from 1889 until her death 276 George May 1st Baron May 1871 1946 financial expert and civil servant lived at Eyot House 277 Frank Finlay 1926 2016 actor lived at Weybridge at time of his death 278 John Fozard 1928 1996 aeronautical engineer and designer of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier lived at St George s Hill 279 Colin Davis 1927 2013 conductor was born in the town 280 281 John Lennon 1940 1980 musician lived at Kenwood St George s Hill from 1964 to 1968 282 283 Cliff Richard b 1940 singer had his main home for some years in Weybridge which he shared with his manager Bill Latham and the latter s mother 284 Ringo Starr b 1940 musician lived at St George s Hill from 1965 to 1968 285 Jacqueline Bisset b 1944 actress born at Weybridge 286 287 Theo Paphitis b 1959 businessman entrepreneur and TV personality 288 Bernie Nolan 1960 2013 singer of group The Nolans and actress lived in Weybridge 289 See also editGrade II listed buildings in Elmbridge Geology of SurreyNotes edit The water level on the Weybridge section of the Thames was lowered in the 19th century necessitating the addition of a third lockgate at Thames Lock which holds back sufficient water for boats to clear the bottom cill of the original lock 41 42 A BR Standard Class 4 4 6 0 steam locomotive hauls an express service to Basingstoke through Weybridge while an electric multiple unit waits in the bay platform to form a service via Chertsey The London and Southampton Railway Company had not intended to construct a station at Weybridge but was required by the authorizing Act of Parliament to build two road bridges over the line near the town Following a negotiation with the Weybridge Vestry the company agreed to open a station on a trial basis for 12 months in exchange for being allowed to build only one bridge 50 The line was extended from Chertsey to Virginia Water in 1866 36 A triangle of railway lines to the west of Weybridge station was created when Byfleet Junction was constructed in 1885 51 The houses were designed by the architect Robert Adam b 1948 and were built on the site of the former Stag and Hounds public house 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