Sunninghill, Berkshire
Coordinates: 51°24′18″N 0°39′22″W / 51.405°N 0.656°W
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Sunninghill shown within Berkshire |
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| Population | 11,603 2001 Census (with Ascot) |
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| OS grid reference | SU937680 |
| - London | 23 miles (37 km) |
| Unitary authority | Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Ceremonial county | Berkshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Ascot |
| Postcode district | SL5 |
| Dialling code | 01344 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Royal Berkshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Windsor |
| List of places: UK • England • Berkshire | |
Sunninghill[1] is a village in the civil parish of Sunninghill and Ascot in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead[2] in the English shire county of Berkshire
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[edit] Location
It is south west and about 12 miles (19 km) from Heathrow Airport and 26 miles (42 km) from Central London. It is just outside Ascot, one of the UK's most famous locations for horse racing. It is close to Sunningdale, Bracknell, Windsor Great Park and Wentworth Golf Club. The town of Windsor is about 7 miles (11 km).
Junction 3 of the M3 motorway and the A30 road are within 1 mile (2 km) at Lightwater. M25 London Orbital motorway junctions 3 at Staines and 11 at Chertsey are both 7 miles (11 km).
The nearest railway stations are Ascot and Sunningdale on the London Waterloo to Reading line.
[edit] Governance
The village is part of the of Sunninghill and Ascot Parish Council area with an office in Ascot.[3]
[edit] History
The name Sunninghill means "the home of Sunna's people, that is, the Anglo-Saxon Sunningas tribe".[4]
The Church of England parish church of Saint Michael and All Angels[5] was originally established about AD 890[6] but was rebuilt in 1808 and 1826-27.[6]
There are records of people living in or near Sunninghill since the 12th century.[6]
At nearby Silwood Park, the Manor Sunninghill was settled in 1362 by John de Sunninghill, the first of numerous recorded residents of the area.[4] The park is now a campus of Imperial College London, where CONSORT,[7] a small nuclear reactor for civilian scientific research, has been in use since 1964.
Cordes Hall, in the centre of the village, was designed by Joseph and Edward Morris and built in 1902.[6]
During World War II the village was home to the exiled King Zog of Albania, who lived in Bagshot Road for a few months in 1941.[6]
The areas is mainly residential, characterised by generally large dwellings set in their own grounds. Beatle John Lennon and his new wife Yoko Ono lived at the house known as Tittenhurst Park in London Road from 1969-71.[8] Another Beatle, Ringo Starr then lived there till the late 1980s.[8] In the 19th century the house was also the home of Thomas Holloway the Victorian businessman and philanthropist together with his wife, Jane.[9] Holloway was the founder of Royal Holloway, London University in nearby Englefield Green and also Holloway Sanatorium also nearby in Virginia Water.[9] Jane died in 1875, aged 61; Holloway died there on 26 December 1875, aged 83. They are buried in a family grave at Sunninghill churchyard.
[edit] Amenities
Sunninghill Saints Sports Club (2009) is a Saturday morning junior football and sports club for primary age children in the Ascot area.[10]
[edit] References
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- ^ "Sunninghill website". http://www.sunninghill.org.uk/index.html. Retrieved 2008-09-21.[dead link]
- ^ "Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead". http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
- ^ "Sunninghill and Ascot Parish Council details". http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/members_parish_councils.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
- ^ a b "Sunninghill website - history". http://www.sunninghill.org.uk/cgi-bin/gpp/faq.pl. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
- ^ "Sunninghill Parish Church". http://parishchurch.sunninghill.org.uk/. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
- ^ a b c d e Pevsner, 1966, page 233
- ^ "CONSORT civilian scientific research nuclear reactor, 2007 update". http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/12301699.DOC. Retrieved 2008-11-17.
- ^ a b Norman, Philip (2008). John Lennon The Life. Hammersmith: Harper Collins. pp. 615 et seq. ISBN 978 0 00 719741 5.
- ^ a b Williams, Richard (1983). Royal Holloway College, A Pictorial History. Surrey: Royal Holloway, University of London. pp. 6-includes a picture of the house c.1930. ISBN 0-900145-83-8.
- ^ "Sunninghill Saints". http://www.sunninghillsaints.co.uk/. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
[edit] Sources
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). The Buildings of England: Berkshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 233.
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