Sunninghill
is a village in the
civil parish
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of
Sunninghill and Ascot in the
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
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in the
English
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county of
Berkshire.
Location
It is south west and about from
Heathrow Airport and from
Central London. It is just outside
Ascot, one of the UK's most famous locations for
horse racing. It is close to
Sunningdale
Sunningdale is a large village with a retail area and a civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It takes up the extreme south-east corner of Berkshire, England. It has a railway station on the (London) Waterloo to Reading ...
,
Windsor Great Park
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and
Wentworth Golf Club. The town of
Windsor
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is about . Junction 3 of the
M3 motorway and the
A30 road
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are within at
Lightwater
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.
M25 London Orbital motorway
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junctions 13 at
Staines and 11 at
Chertsey
Chertsey is a town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, south-west of central London. It grew up round Chertsey Abbey, founded in 666 CE, and gained a market charter from Henry I. A bridge across the River Thames first appeared in t ...
are both . The nearest railway stations are and on the
London
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Waterloo to Reading line
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* Waterloo, Belgium, where the battle took place.
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Antarctica
*King George Island (S ...
.
History
The name Sunninghill means "the home of
Sunna's people, that is, the
Anglo-Saxon Sunningas tribe".
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.
[Pevsner, 1966, page 233] Cordes Hall in the centre of the village, was designed by Edward and
Joseph Morris and built in 1902.
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
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of Sunninghill by John de Sunninghill in 1362.
The park is now a campus of
Imperial College London
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, where CONSORT, a small
nuclear reactor
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for civilian scientific research, was used from 1965 to 2012.
The Cedars
The Cedars sits opposite
St Michael and All Angels Church and is
listed Grade II on the
National Heritage List for England
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.
It was the residence of the politician
John Yorke in the 18th century; and the antiquary and poet
George Ellis.
The novelist
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels '' Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy ...
stayed at The Cedars with Ellis and wrote part of his epic poem ''
Marmion'' in the garden.
Tittenhurst Park
Beatle John Lennon
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and his new wife
Yoko Ono
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Ono grew up i ...
lived at the house known as
Tittenhurst Park
Tittenhurst Park is a Grade II listed early Georgian country house set in off London Road at Beggar's Bush near Ascot and over the parish border into Sunningdale, both in the English county of Berkshire. It was famously the home of musi ...
in
London Road from 1969 to 1971.
Another Beatle,
Ringo Starr then lived there till the late 1980s.
In the 19th century the house was also the home of
Thomas Holloway
:
Thomas Holloway (22 September 180026 December 1883) was an English patent medicine vendor and philanthropist.
Early life
Holloway was born in Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, the eldest son of Thomas and Mary Holloway (née Chellew), who at the ...
the
Victorian businessman and
philanthropist together with his wife, Jane.
Holloway was the founder of
Royal Holloway, London University, in nearby
Englefield Green
Englefield Green is a large village in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, approximately west of central London. It is home to Royal Holloway, University of London.
The village grew from a hamlet in the 19th century, when much of Egham ( ...
, and also of
Holloway Sanatorium
Holloway Sanatorium was an institution for the treatment of those suffering temporary mental illness, situated on of aesthetically landscaped grounds near Virginia Water, Surrey, England, about south-west of Charing Cross. Its largest buildin ...
in nearby
Virginia Water
Virginia Water is a commuter village in the Borough of Runnymede in northern Surrey, England. It is home to the Wentworth Estate and the Wentworth Club. The area has much woodland and occupies a large minority of the Runnymede district. Its n ...
.
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 (2009) is a Saturday morning junior
football and sports club for primary age children in the Ascot area.
References
Sources
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External links
Sunninghill and Ascot Parish CouncilPotted History of Sunninghill and Ascot
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Villages in Berkshire
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Sunninghill and Ascot
Former civil parishes in Berkshire