Sunninghill, Berkshire

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Sunninghill
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Sunninghill
Location within Berkshire
Population11,603  2001 Census (with Ascot)
OS grid reference SU937680
•  London 23 miles (37 km)
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Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Ascot
Postcode district SL5
Dialling code 01344
Police Thames Valley
Fire Royal Berkshire
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51°24′09″N00°39′18″W / 51.40250°N 0.65500°W / 51.40250; -0.65500

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 county of Berkshire.

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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, 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 13 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.

Toponymy

The name Sunninghill means "the home of Sunna's people, that is, the Anglo-Saxon Sunningas tribe". [3]

History

The Church of England parish church of St Michael and All Angels was originally established about 890 but was rebuilt in 1808 and 1826–27. [4] [5] Cordes Hall in the centre of the village, was designed by Edward and Joseph Morris and built in 1902. [4]

Mansions

The area is mainly residential, characterised by generally large dwellings set in their own grounds.

Silwood Park

Silwood Park was first established as the manor house of Sunninghill by John de Sunninghill in 1362. [3] The park is now a campus of Imperial College London, where CONSORT, a small nuclear reactor for civilian scientific research, was used from 1965 to 2012. [6] [7]

The Cedars

The Cedars sits opposite the church and is listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England. [8] It was the residence of the politician John Yorke in the 18th century; and the antiquary and poet George Ellis. [9] The novelist Walter Scott stayed at The Cedars with Ellis and wrote part of his epic poem Marmion in the garden. [10]

Tittenhurst Park

John Lennon and his second wife, Yoko Ono, lived at Tittenhurst Park, on London Road, from 1969 to 1971. [11] Another member of The Beatles, Ringo Starr then lived there till the late 1980s. [11] In the 19th century the house was also the home of Thomas Holloway the Victorian businessman and philanthropist together with his wife, Jane. [12] Holloway was the founder of Royal Holloway, London University, in nearby Englefield Green, and also of Holloway Sanatorium in nearby Virginia Water. [12] 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.

Amenities

Sunninghill Saints Sports Club is a Saturday morning junior football and sports club for primary age children in the Ascot area. [13]

Sunninghill is home to the amateur theatrical Quince Players. [14]

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Silwood Park is the rural campus of Imperial College London, England. It is situated near the village of Sunninghill, near Ascot in Berkshire. Since 1986, there have been major developments on the site with four new college buildings. Adjacent to these buildings is the Technology Transfer Centre: a science park with units leased to commercial companies for research.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St Michael and All Angels Church, Sunninghill</span> Church in Sunninghill, Berkshire

The Church of Saint Michael and All Angels is in the village of Sunninghill, in Berkshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Oxford. It is in the parish of Sunninghill and South Ascot with the church of All Souls in South Ascot. It is dedicated to Saint Michael and all angels.

References

  1. ↑ "Sunninghill and Ascot Parish Council" . Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead" . Retrieved 21 September 2008.
  3. 1 2 "Sunninghill website – history". Archived from the original on 26 October 2008. Retrieved 21 September 2008.
  4. 1 2 Pevsner, 1966, page 233
  5. ↑ "Sunninghill Parish Church" . Retrieved 21 September 2008.
  6. ↑ "CONSORT civilian scientific research nuclear reactor, 2007 update" . Retrieved 17 November 2008.
  7. ↑ "ONR delicenses Imperial College London Consort Reactor site". Nuclear Engineering International. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  8. ↑ Historic England, "The Cedars (1119829)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 1 February 2021
  9. ↑ "Victoria County History - Berkshire A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3 Parishes: Sunninghill. British History Online". Victoria County History. 1923. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  10. ↑ MacCunn, Florence (1909). Sir Walter Scott's Friends. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. p. 255. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  11. 1 2 Norman, Philip (2008). John Lennon The Life. Hammersmith: Harper Collins. pp. 615 et seq. ISBN   978-0-00-719741-5.
  12. 1 2 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.
  13. ↑ "Sunninghill Saints" . Retrieved 29 June 2009.
  14. ↑ quince players Home

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