Addlestone ( or ) is a town in

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. It is located approximately southwest of London. The town is the administrative centre of the

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, of which it is the largest settlement.

History

The town is recorded as ''Attelsdene'' in 1241 and its name is probably derived from that of a

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landowner. Previously part of the

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of neighbouring

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, it began to grow as significant settlement in its own right from the mid-18th century. The Civic Centre, which houses the offices of Runnymede Borough Council, Addlestone

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and the local library, opened in 2008.

Geography

Addlestone is approximately northeast of

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and southwest of London. Narrow green buffers separate the town with

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and

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. There is no precisely defined southern boundary with New Haw. Addlestone is home to the ancient Crouch Oak tree, under which it is said Queen Elizabeth I picnicked. It also marked the edge of

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before it was largely cut down for fields and settlements.

Demography

At the 2001 census, Addlestone was recorded as having a population of 16,657, making it the largest settlement in the Borough of Runnymede.Surrey County Council collated census statistics, major settlements
The four wards in Addlestone have their own semi-permanent (land use) profiles: Addlestone Bourneside has the greatest proportion of privately rented homes, Addlestone North of socially rented homes. Housing in Chertsey South and Row Town which is mostly Row Town was, in 2011, 86% owner-occupied with or without a loan, the third highest proportion in Runnymede. Offices and factories are below the local averages for areas within the M25 – the most common land use being parks, playing fields, flood meadows/woodland, farms and golf courses in the form of Green Belt buffer land mentioned. The

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accounts for the relatively large proportion of land devoted to roads for the density of population and housing.

History

The name Addlestone probably means "Attel's Denu": the valley belonging to a Saxon named Attel. Addlestone, historically called Atlesdon or Atlesford, was a part of Chertsey

ecclesiastical parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

, the basic unit of civil administration. In 1241 the place was listed as "Attelsdene" and by 1610

John Speed John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian of Cheshire origins.S. Bendall, 'Speed, John (1551/2–1629), historian and cartographer', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (OUP 2004/ ...

's map shows "Adleston", halfway between named hills St. Annhill and St. Georg Hill, just south of the

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. The ''Crouch Oak'', an oak tree believed to have originated in the 11th Century, is an important symbol of the town. It used to mark the boundary of

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. Legend says that

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stopped by it and had a picnic. The tree is one of the main historic features of the town, and consequently several local businesses use its name in their title. It survived an arson attack in September 2007. Ongar Hill, in the 18th century a country house and farm now smaller homes and motorway, belonged to Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker the elder (d. 1782) instrumental in the

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against Spanish interests in India and the Philippines and in the

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involved with action containing French forces based in

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. Sayes Court, Addlestone, now a junior school and residential estate before demolition was a country house of a family named Moore from the 17th to the end of the 18th century. In 1823 it became the property of Sir Charles Wetherell,

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of Bristol, who had it rebuilt or at least considerably altered, Deniz anneni sikeyim

Chertsey Beomond Manor/Woburn Park

Addlestone, including St George's College's grounds of Woburn Park and the remaining farms and water meadows designated

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were the western strip of Chertsey Manor or Chertsey Beomond Manor (to distinguish it from others), possessed by

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from the grant of land by

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, s.a. 762. or ''Friðewald''; d. 762 × 764) was an

, at a date between the years 666 and 675 CE until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Adam de Woburn lived at Woburn Park in 1260 Only thirteen years after 1537 the Crown was content to lease the land rather than continue with a

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so Sir William Fitz William (later his widow) held the whole Chertsey Beomond manor from 1550 to 1574; later Sir

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held it for the infant

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who granted it specifically for his Queen, Henrietta Maria (of France). During the

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, the government sold the manor to William Aspinall who sold 292 trees of Birch Wood there for the Navy; however taken back by the Crown at the

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and the first of many leases was granted; the first lease was to the first Lord Holles. For example, from 1779 to 1803 the

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held it and from an unknown date until 1827 the British Commander-in-Chief

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, famed for the nursery rhyme and the

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and Carlton Terrace was tenant of the lands. In the 1740s, the famed gardener, Philip Southcote, chose to construct a two-storey house. Now a Grade II

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, it was also named Woburn Park, with an original ornamented farm (''

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'') on Woburn Hill with fields for cattle or crops, decorated with statues, grotto, vases, temples, archways and other features, much of which survives as part of St George's College. The subsequent owners of Woburn Park were: * 1783

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* 1816 Vice Admiral Charles Stirling, listed in deeds as Admiral Stirling but Vice-Admiral * 1834 Lord and Lady King, later Lord (Earl of and Countess of) Lovelace * 1862 Lord (2nd Earl of) Kilmorey

Since 1800

Chertsey poor law union's

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was in Addlestone and was built in 1836–8. Addlestone chapel was added in 1868. The Village Hall was built in 1887 by the Addlestone Village Hall Company. The Princess Mary Village Homes at Addlestone were established by the organisation and patronage of the Duchess of Teck (Princess Mary of Cambridge) in 1871: certified industrial schools for female children of prisoners, or children otherwise in a destitute or dangerous position. They were conducted on the separate homes system, and are supported by voluntary contributions, with a Treasury allowance for children committed under the Industrial Schools Act. Addlestone's schools were mostly founded in this period: St. Paul's Primary School, built 1841, enlarged 1851 and 1885, initially for girls and infants. Chertsey Urban District took over all roles of the parish and of the "

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" under the

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. A boys' school was added in 1901. New Ham School was built in 1874. St. Augustine's School (Church) for infants was built in 1882, and Chapel Park (a church-sponsored School) in 1896. A Baptist chapel was built in Addlestone in 1872, and a Wesleyan chapel in 1898. Another ecclesiastical district of Addlestone, though today separated now by the residential development of New Haw, called Woodham and closer to the major town of

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was formed in 1902 on what were the boundaries of Chertsey parish and Horsell parish. By 1911 the ecclesiastical district and

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Addlestone could be considered to have outstripped the original centre of the parish, Chertsey, in importance. According to the Victoria County History published in that year:

This ward contains the largest number of people of the three wards hertsey, Addlestone, and Outer Wardinto which the Chertsey Urban District was divided, and the number of new houses shows the growing character of the neighbourhood.

On Station Road, a large Blériot aircraft factory was built in 1917; its several hundred aeroplanes were taken by road to

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for final assembly and test flying. In the 1950s the site was taken over by Weymann to build buses and coaches who built the prototype of the

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bus ceasing trade in the mid-1960s. Caddy's acquired part of the site to manufacture

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s followed in 1967 by

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which moved from

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. In 1990, the site was used by Marconi. These companies were important local employers. By 2000 the site was derelict. The site was redeveloped in the early 2010s as a business park: Aviator Park.

Elevation, soil and geology

Elevations range between and . The maximum is on Row Hill recreation ground, Row Town, Addlestone; a ridge that continues to the northwest of Row Town where it is known as Ongar/Spinney Hill, where Great Grove Farm in its centre also reaches this height; the minimum is by the Thames and along the Woburn Park Stream which is the main

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of ''The Bourne'' the main waterway of the village, a stream rising as the '' Windle Brook'' in

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cutting a shallow ravine, flowing past the McLaren Technology Centre and Woodham then passing to the east of the village.Map
created by

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, courtesy of

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Eminences of the Bagshot Sand stand out above the river most notably the western hills mentioned and Woburn Hill which is AOD compared to St Ann's Hill, Chertsey's , however, is part of the landscape critical to Woburn Park and the private gardens of Woburn Hill. Major climate changes in Britain causing sea level changes in the last 2.58 million years, with mini

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s, the ice sheets did not extend to

but sand and gravel deposits swept towards the fledgling

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were spread in all lower parts. Gravel terraces at various heights on the valley sides are the remnants of successive floodplains, the highest terrace being the oldest and the lowest the youngest. The most prominent terraces mark the former levels of the Thames in north Surrey. Along tributary slopes, a deposit,

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, forms the main sediment of latest age. Head comprises angular pieces of rock and soil derived locally from the extensive frost-shattering of rocks and the subsequent movement of this material down valley slopes. Soil is predominantly "

loam Loam (in geology and soil science) is soil composed mostly of sand ( particle size > ), silt (particle size > ), and a smaller amount of clay (particle size < ). By weight, its mineral composition is about 40–40–20% concentration of sand–si ...

y soil with naturally high groundwater". Woburn Hill has "slowly permeable seasonally wet slightly acid but base-rich loamy and clayey soil". New Haw, the southern part of the Addlestone

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and historically a part has "freely draining slightly acid loamy soils"; so does Great Grove Farm. West of the M25 as far as the centre of

is a belt of "slightly acid loamy and clayey soils with impeded drainage" soil.

Education

There are two secondary schools in Addlestone:

Jubilee High School Jubilee High School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Addlestone, Surrey, England. The school holds Artsmark Gold Award and International School status. History The school was formed in September 1985 by th ...

, state-funded and St George's College, independently funded which relocated from

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to Woburn Park in 1884. All non-junior parts of the school occupy Woburn Park, Addlestone described above. There is also St Paul's CofE - a state school located next to Jubilee high sharing the same field next to the m25. Regular football matches are played on this field by the local football team, Hythe Hornets A range of primary and infant schools are in Addlestone which include St Paul's C of E Primary School, Ongar Place, Sayes Court, The Holy Family Catholic Primary School and Darley Dene Infant school. A few nurseries also serve the wider-area community.

Landmarks

The George Inn

Heading north from the town, towards the Addlestonemoor five-way, two-lane roundabout is a Grade II

at the renaming Brighton Road to Chertsey Road, the George Inn,The George Inn This Inn is a

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building with 18th century and later alterations and has three

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s facing the road. It is now boarded up. Almost opposite is another

split into two houses: nos 114–116 Chertsey Road, early 19th century, slate-roofed houses with sash windows.

Woburn Hill

Woburn Hill is a large house built in 1815 spread over three storeys, that features a moulded

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and fluted Greek

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s to its porch with an iron balustrade above it forming a

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in front of a central window of the floor above.

Localities

Ongar Close, Rowhill, near Addlestone - geograph

Rowhill or Row Hill

Row Hill forms a residential estate with shops of a butcher, baker and electrical appliance store that is

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with Addlestone to its west. These shops are on Ongar Hill not Row Hill and hence the name Ongar Parade, also known locally as "Top shops" due to being at the top of Row Town.

Addlestone Moor

Addlestone Moor has a

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, now closed 08/2013, now a Day Nursery, flood meadows, a sports pitch and a mobile home park. It is also home to th
Runnymede Rockets BMX Club
Its roundabout marks on the closer side of town has five exits and is used for motorway access from primarily Addlestone,

Shepperton Shepperton is an urban village in the Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, approximately south west of central London. Shepperton is equidistant between the towns of Chertsey and Sunbury-on-Thames. The village is mentioned in a document of 959 AD ...

Laleham Laleham is a village on the River Thames, in the Borough of Spelthorne, about west of central London, England. Historically part of the county of Middlesex, it was transferred to Surrey in 1965. Laleham is downriver from Staines-upon-Thames a ...

and Chertsey.

Sport

The town’s lawn bowls club, Addlestone Victory Park, won Bowls England’s “Story of the Year” award in February 2022 after its President, Barrie de Suys, aged 87, walked 2,400 0.6 mile laps of the park during lockdown for the Club. He also raised over £10,000 for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Formed in 1931 it was reduced to five members at the start of the 2021, recovering to forty members by the end of that Season. In 2022 it increased its membership to eighty making it the fastest growing bowls club in England. It runs an annual Open Days at the end of May. Abbey Rangers play at Addlestone Moor, on the Thames winter flood meadows (prior to the construction of the

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) next to the disused Woburn Arms and the athletics track in Woburn Park which is now St George's RC College. Lyne FC play at Jubilee High School. The now-defunct Addlestone & Weybridge Town were established as Addlestone Town in 1885 and played at their ground in Liberty Lane until their dissolution in 1985. There is now housing on the site of the club's ground. Several race car drivers reside in the Addlestone area: the 1950s Grand Prix driver Tony Brookes, National Saloon Car driver Chris Fulke Greville, Alan Mann of Touring Cars fame, Bruce McLaren, the Grand Prix driver and owner of McLaren F1.

Perpetual Motion Squad

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team managed by local gamers.

Economy, culture and community

Addlestone is mentioned in

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'', in which the second of ten

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invasion ships (called 'cylinders') lands at the Addlestone Golf Links. This is probably a reference to New Zealand Golf Club (founded 1895) on Woodham Lane - the road from Woking to Addlestone - and not the Abbey Moor Golf Course which was only established in 1989. Addlestone Library is co-located with Runnymede Borough Council and Addlestone Police in the Runnymede Civic Centre built in 2008 at a cost of £12,700,000 with atriums and courtyards on Station Road and opposite Addlestone Health Centre. Its main road is Station Road which has many shops, two supermarkets, Addlestone

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, a doctors'

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surgery, the Aviator business park and the Eileen Tozer Day Centre; the civic centre of

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is on this street. Station Road hosts a 2011-completed business (office) estate, Aviator Park, in glass and steel which has landscaped verges with trees, shrubs and grass. In July 2015, Bouygues Development commenced work on a new, large scale town centre regeneration called, "Addlestone ONE". Located along Station Road and next to Runnymede Civic Centre, when complete in 2017, the project will create 213 new homes, a Premier Inn hotel, a Waitrose supermarket, a premium 6-screen cinema operated by The Light Cinemas, new public spaces, various restaurants and shops as well as a

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. The Ground Breaking Ceremony for the development took place on 23 October 2015 and was officiated by Foreign Secretary, the Rt. Hon. Philip Hammond.

Transport

Road

Station Road joins into surrounding A-roads in all directions, including non-principal "

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Road" which has since become superseded by the motorway network and other north–south roads, the A319 that links in towards routes to

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and the A320 road that is convenient for closer areas of Thames Valley corridor, and the A318 to

with its museum, luxury hotel and retail park and the

A3 road The A3, known as the Portsmouth Road or London Road in sections, is a major road connecting the City of London and Portsmouth passing close to Kingston upon Thames, Guildford, Haslemere and Petersfield. For much of its length, it is classifie ...

Painshill interchange between

Hersham Hersham is a village in Surrey, within the M25. Its housing is relatively low-rise and diverse and it has four technology/trading estates. The only contiguous settlement is Walton-on-Thames, its post town. Hersham is served by Hersham and Wal ...

and Cobham towards London. The M25 can be accessed from Addlestone at junction 11.

Rail

Addlestone railway station Addlestone railway station serves the town of Addlestone in the Runnymede District of Surrey, England. It is located on the Chertsey Branch Line and is operated by South Western Railway. The station was opened, with the branch line, on 14 ...

is operated South Western Railway and is served by services running between

London Waterloo Waterloo station (), also known as London Waterloo, is a central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth. It is connected to a London Underground station o ...

and

. Journey times to London Waterloo are between 30 and 50 minutes.

Air

London Heathrow Airport Heathrow Airport (), called ''London Airport'' until 1966 and now known as London Heathrow , is a major international airport in London, England. It is the largest of the six international airports in the London airport system (the others be ...

is located 10.8 miles from Addlestone to which it is connected by bus services and the M25.

Buses

Addlestone has four principal bus services. An hourly service to Slough via

Staines upon Thames Staines-upon-Thames is a market town in northwest Surrey, England, around west of central London. It is in the Borough of Spelthorne, at the confluence of the River Thames and Colne. Historically part of Middlesex, the town was transferred ...

and

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and in the other direction to the

retail park operates: bus 51:
Another service with 2 buses per hour is the 461 which goes from

Kingston upon Thames Kingston upon Thames (hyphenated until 1965, colloquially known as Kingston) is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, England. It is situated on the River Thames and southwest of Charing Cross. It is notable as ...

and bus 446 between

and

River navigation

The Wey Navigation canal runs to the south east of the town. Coxes lock is the deepest unmanned lock on the Navigation with a fall of .

Nearest settlements

Notes and references

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External links

Addlestone Historical Society

Aviator Addlestone, Surrey – Business Park

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{{authority control Towns in Surrey Borough of Runnymede Populated places on the River Thames