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51-612: Egham ( / ˈ ɛ ɡ əm / EG -əm ) is a town in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey , England, approximately 19 miles (31 km) west of central London. First settled in the Bronze Age , the town was under the control of Chertsey Abbey for much of the Middle Ages . In 1215, Magna Carta was sealed by King John at Runnymede , to the north of Egham, having been chosen for its proximity to

102-784: A large theme park of rides and attractions. Also near Egham is Ascot Racecourse . Egham was home to a large research centre for Procter & Gamble , the London Innovation Centre, on Rusham Park , formally owned by Shell oils. P&G had over 550 employees in Egham, working on Fine Fragrance, Beauty Care and Health Care brands, such as Hugo Boss , Olay , and Vicks although in May 2012 P&G announced plans to shed 125 of these jobs. The site has now been purchased by Royal Holloway. Other notable employers include HCL AXON (an information technology consultancy), Belron (parent company of Autoglass),

153-572: A memorial, built in 1957 by the American Bar Association , at the foot of Cooper's Hill (a small rise adjacent to the Thames floodplain, immortalised in verse by poets including John Denham ("Cooper's Hill") and Alexander Pope ("Windsor Forest")). A sculpture by artist David Parfitt portraying King John and Robert Fitzwalter in the act of sealing Magna Carta can be found in Church Road in

204-556: A retail development. The M25 motorway runs through Runnymede from south to north, with junctions at Chertsey and Egham, while train services in the borough are provided by South Western Railway on the Waterloo–Reading line and the Chertsey branch line . Runnymede is twinned with Bergisch Gladbach , situated 10 miles east of Cologne; Herndon, Virginia , about 20 miles west of Washington, D.C.; and Joinville-le-Pont , located to

255-498: A third of the council elected each time for a four-year term of office. Surrey County Council elections are held in the fourth year of the cycle when there are no borough council elections. The council is based at Runnymede Civic Centre on Station Road in Addlestone . The new building cost a reported £12.6m and opened in May 2008. The council's former offices were on the adjoining site and were subsequently demolished to make way for

306-412: A time home of Lord Thring . Parts of Egham have featured in national and international news in the 21st century. On 12 September 2007 a case of foot-and-mouth disease was found in Egham, 12 miles (19 km) from the previous outbreak found in early August 2007. Occasional flooding of Runnymede and parts of Egham Hythe have taken place following exceptional Thames Valley winter rainfall. Units of

357-683: A usual Sunday attendance is around 300. The incumbent Vicar is the Revd Esther Prior. The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption is a Catholic church at Englefield Green. It is situated on Harvest Road in the village, just off the A30 road. It was built from 1930 to 1931 and designed by Joseph Goldie. It serves the Parish of St. Cuthbert which includes the Catholic Chaplaincy to the nearby Royal Holloway of

408-606: Is 1 mile (2 km) to the west of Egham town centre, close to Englefield Green . Egham predates c.670 AD when Chertsey Abbey was founded; one of the earliest Chertsey charters mentions Egeham . The place-name means "Ecga's farm". Egham appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Egeham . It was held by Chertsey Abbey and kept by that institution after the conquest when its assets were: 15 hides ; 12 ploughlands , 120 acres (49 hectares) of meadow , together with woodland , 'herbage and pannage' worth 75 hogs . It rendered one of

459-587: Is a comprehensive school in Egham Hythe . ACS International Schools has a campus in Egham. Formally known as "Egham Gateway West", a redevelopment of Egham's town centre is underway with the goal to modernise and rejuvenate the historic town centre. The development will deliver 34 affordable for rent homes, 67 market rate sale or rent apartments, Student accommodation, retail and restaurant units along with an Everyman Cinema . Expected to be completed in January 2022,

510-525: Is an institution in Egham dating back to 1706 and was a grammar school before being designated a sixth form college in 1975. Royal Holloway, University of London is south of Egham along the A30 road at Englefield Green . It provided accommodation for London 2012 competitors who competed at Eton Dorney . The Magna Carta School , formerly Hythe County Secondary and Egham Hythe Secondary Modern,

561-457: Is an international group of people who meet to worship and have fellowship together. They are Pentecostal in nature and part of the Assemblies of God (UK). They meet at Virginia Lodge, Station Road, Egham. Insanity Radio 103.2FM is a local radio station with studios in Egham. It is owned jointly by Royal Holloway, University of London and its associated Students' Union , and run by students of

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612-582: Is based in Addlestone and the borough also includes the towns of Chertsey and Egham . The borough is named after Runnymede , a water meadow on the banks of the River Thames near Egham, which is connected with the sealing of Magna Carta by King John in 1215. It is a prosperous part of the London commuter belt , having some of the most expensive housing in the United Kingdom outside central London, such as

663-635: Is represented on Surrey County Council by Cllr Marisa Heath. Italics indicate a by-election. Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller , then newlyweds, spent four months (mid-July to November) in 1956, including their honeymoon, in Parkside House, Englefield Green for the duration of Monroe's work on the film The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier . Saudi billionaire Walid Juffali owned Bishopsgate House and its 42-acre estate from about 2001 until his death in 2016. Leslie Charteris , author of

714-508: The Judge Institute . Corridors in President and College Halls were named after prominent British and Anglo-Indian figures, such as George Canning , Warren Hastings , Richard Wellesley and Charles Cornwallis . In 2007, Brunel advertised the buildings for sale. Royal Holloway looked for provision of a quota of student accommodation to complement its adjacent Kingswood Hall. In June 2007 it

765-554: The Wentworth Estate at Virginia Water . The M25 motorway which encircles London runs through the borough, with Addlestone, Chertsey and Egham Hythe being inside the M25. At the 2021 Census , the population of the borough was 87,739. With a GDP per capita of £87,277 it is the sixth wealthiest borough in the UK, being the wealthiest outside of London. The UK Competitiveness Index ranks it as

816-502: The Western and South Western Railways but was for many decades offset by the stark growth in the population of London and the country at large . Egham station was opened in 1856 on the line from Waterloo to Reading and services are operated today by South Western Railway . The town is west of the M25 motorway , accessible via junction 13. The campus of Royal Holloway, University of London

867-490: The 8th most economically competitive area in the UK, with only London boroughs ahead. The neighbouring districts are Spelthorne , Elmbridge , Woking , Surrey Heath and Windsor and Maidenhead . The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , covering two former districts which were both abolished at the same time: The new district was named after the water meadow of Runnymede on

918-660: The Combined Counties football league in the 2012–13 season and are now established in the Southern League Central division. Egham Town F.C. plays in the 5,500 seat Runnymede Stadium, Wards Place just beyond the Pooley Green playing field on Thorpe Lea Road. Egham Cricket Club is a club with several sides and an academy grouped into four age groups from age 11. This dates to 1913 and is in Vicarage Road, just south of

969-519: The Conservative minority administration between 2023 and 2024. The other two (both representing Englefield Green East) form part of the majority administration group. The next election is due in 2026. Since the last boundary changes in 2019 the council has comprised 41 councillors representing 14 wards with each ward electing three councillors except Englefield Green East which elects two. Elections are held three years out of every four, with roughly

1020-655: The EMEA Headquarters of Future Electronics, and the European headquarters of Enterprise Holdings; parent company of the Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Alamo, and National vehicle rental companies. Egham is also home to CAB International Europe UK, which holds one of the world's largest collections of microorganisms and the HQ of Spectris PLC, a supplier of precision instrumentation and controls with 8900 employees worldwide. Egham and

1071-607: The King's residence at Windsor . Under the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the early 16th Century, the major, formerly ecclesiastical, manorial freehold interests in the town and various market revenues passed to the Crown . In the 17th and 18th centuries, Egham became a stop on coaching routes between London and many places to the west. The importance of this shrank from the building of

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1122-735: The University of London. On Sundays, it is usually standing room only, filled with local parishioners and students from Royal Holloway. The United Church of Egham is a local union of the Methodist Church and the United Reformed church. It occupies a Victorian building in the centre of Egham High Street. Hythe Community Church meets at The Hythe Centre, Thorpe Road, Egham Hythe, Surrey TW20 8BN every Sunday at 11 am. Runnymede Christian Fellowship

1173-504: The army were deployed to assist with defences and dealing with damage from flooding in the 2013-14 winter storms . Egham once lay within the Godley hundred , which lay in the early medieval period within Windsor Forest in a part of it which was subject to a long-running dispute as to whether it lay within the historic county boundaries of Surrey or Berkshire . Egham Rural District

1224-475: The banks of the Thames at Egham on the northern edge of the borough, which is connected with the sealing of Magna Carta by King John in 1215 and is the site of several significant monuments. The district was awarded borough status in 1978, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor . Runnymede Borough Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Surrey County Council . There are no civil parishes in

1275-463: The borough, which is an unparished area . The council has been under no overall control since 2023. Following the 2024 election a coalition of Labour , Liberal Democrats , Greens and independent councillors formed to run the council. The first elections to the council were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974. Political control of

1326-655: The buildings are used as halls of residence for the main campus at Uxbridge and Royal Holloway, Englefield Green. The halls were named after Shoreditch staff: Scrivens, Marshall, Bradley, Reed and Rowan save for President Hall, where the College president lived, and College Hall that were both named in its Royal Indian Engineering College period. Embellished Neo Gothic and similar style stone and brick mixture buildings, they were built by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt , who had been Isambard Kingdom Brunel 's architect for London Paddington station and Addenbrooke's Hospital , Cambridge , now

1377-595: The centre of town. Another memorial at the top of the hill in nearby Englefield Green , the Air Forces Memorial commemorates Commonwealth air force personnel killed during the Second World War but who have no known grave. It was the first new-built British building to be listed in the post-war era. The memorial is administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and freely open to

1428-440: The civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 5.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 326.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free). Borough of Runnymede The Borough of Runnymede is a local government district with borough status in Surrey , England. Its council

1479-600: The college during World War II. Englefield Green is located in the Borough of Runnymede and Weybridge . It was represented in Parliament by former Conservative MP Philip Hammond from 1997 until his resignation in 2019. It is currently represented by Conservative MP Ben Spencer . The village is divided into two wards for the purpose of Borough Council elections – East (Cllr Andrea Berardi, Cllr Trevor Gates) and West (Cllr Abby King, Cllr Eliza Kettle, Cllr Nick Prescot). The village

1530-494: The council since 1974 has been as follows: The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Runnymede. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader or co-leaders of the council . The leaders (or co-leaders) since 1984 have been: Following the 2024 election the composition of the council has been: Of the independent councillors, two (all representing Ottershaw ward) form the "Independent Group", which informally supported

1581-435: The east of Paris. Englefield Green Englefield Green is a large village in the Borough of Runnymede , Surrey , England, approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of central London. It is home to Runnymede Meadow, The Commonwealth Air Forces Memorial , The Savill Garden ,and Royal Holloway, University of London . The village grew from a hamlet in the 19th century, when much of Egham (1 mile (1.6 km) to

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1632-463: The east) was sold by the Crown Estate . The village grew from a hamlet and medieval farmed swathe of land, known as a tithing , of the same name, combined with was a much wider, that is eastern tranche of its area associated with the former Great South West Road and its neighbouring land known as Egham Hill , both in Egham in the 19th century, when much of its land, principally in the western half,

1683-480: The eastern part of its historic parish, Egham Hythe , share connections with the development and enhancement of prestige sports cars. Egham has been Ferrari's spiritual home in the United Kingdom in the listed Tower Garage. Lagonda was based here. Egham today contains a Ferrari , Maserati , and a Porsche dealership. Egham has a Non-League football club, Egham Town F.C. , who were promoted as Champions from

1734-614: The halls of residence is the Air Forces Memorial which commemorates by name over 20,000 airmen and women who were lost in the Second World War during operations from bases in the United Kingdom and North and Western Europe, and who have no known graves. They served in Bomber, Fighter, Coastal, Transport, Flying Training and Maintenance Commands, and came from all parts of the Commonwealth, as well as some from countries in continental Europe which had been overrun but whose airmen continued to fight in

1785-510: The holding of Egham races at the end of August upon its usual course must be removed every year. In 1836 the races were presided over by William IV , who gave a plate to be run for at the meeting, which coincided with festivities at Windsor for his daughter's marriage. The races ceased in 1884. Other than two forming the hub of today's Virginia Water (including Wentworth), the principal properties were 'Egham Manor and Park', 'Egham Wick', 'Kenwolde Court', 'Markwood', 'Kingswood' and 'Alderhurst' for

1836-500: The jury that it was not a homicide as in the normal sense of the word, and was acquitted. Barthelemy was widely suspected of being a spy for the new French regime of Emperor Louis Napoleon ( Napoleon III ). In fact his bullying of other refugees had led to the confrontation with Cournet. However, three years later, he was engaged in a crime in London, possibly involving a blackmail attempt that did not work out. Two men were killed and Barthelemy

1887-481: The largest sums in Surrey to its feudal overlords per year, £30 10s 0d. The village of Egham was, before 19th-century losses, an ancient parish raping land totalling 7,435 acres (30 km) in the counties of Berkshire (briefly) and Surrey ; incorporating Egham, Egham Hill, Cooper's Hill, Englefield Green , Virginia Water , Shrubs Hill, Runnymede , Egham Hythe , and a considerable portion of Windsor Great Park . In

1938-483: The last several General elections in the United Kingdom . Nearby are Staines-upon-Thames , Bagshot , Sunningdale , Englefield Green and Virginia Water , Windsor Great Park , Old Windsor and Windsor itself. The area between Egham and Staines town centres is known as Egham Hythe . North of Egham is Wraysbury , home of the British Disabled Waterski Association. South is Thorpe Park ,

1989-411: The medieval period it was divided into four roughly equal tythings : The manor of Egham, which includes Runnymede, belonged formerly and in 1215 to Chertsey Abbey, and after the Dissolution of the Monasteries (around 1540) became the property of the Crown , though granted to various tenants (holders) at different times. Magna Carta was sealed at nearby Runnymede in 1215, and is commemorated by

2040-588: The poem engraved on the gallery window was written by Paul H Scott. It overlooks the River Thames on Cooper's Hill at Englefield Green between Windsor and Egham on the A328 (Priest Hill), 4 miles from Windsor and is well signposted as 'Air Force Memorial'. Just north of the village proper are seven halls. These were last in use for education itself as the ' Runnymede campus' of Brunel University and before which by one of its forebears, Shoreditch College of Education. Today

2091-563: The project is being managed by ‘Places for People’ on behalf of Runnymede Borough Council. While working alongside development partner Graham, which secured a £60 million contract to construct the development. When completed it will offer over 1300sqm of retail space. St John's Church Egham is on Church Road, the continuation of the High Street, and is an evangelical Anglican church in the Diocese of Guildford. There are approximately 320 members and

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2142-598: The public year-round. It has excellent views towards London, Windsor and the Surrey Hills, as well as being a place of quiet contemplation and reflection. Egham at one time held horse races which took place at the Runnymede meadow, which interfered with the Inclosure Act of 1814 (54 G. III, c. 153) and the consequent award made in 1817, which divided up the meadow, as the Act stipulated that any enclosures which should interfere with

2193-512: The railway line and within the Thorpe Lea outlying neighbourhood of Egham. A rowing club , Staines Boat Club , is on the Egham side of Staines Bridge in the associated neighbourhood (postally), Egham Hythe. Egham is home to Egham Fencing Club , a club founded in 1976 dedicated to the sport of fencing . The club has members practicing all three weapons ( Sabre , Foil and Épée ). The Egham Royal Show takes place every August. 23–24 August 2014

2244-533: The ranks of the Royal Air Force . The names in their thousands are inscribed on panels in a courtyard. The memorial sits on a hill overlooking the celebrated Thames meadow of Runnymede where Magna Carta , enshrining basic freedoms in English law , was signed in 1215. The memorial was designed by Sir Edward Maufe with sculpture by Vernon Hill. The engraved glass and painted ceilings were designed by John Hutton and

2295-399: The university as well as local volunteers. It provides entertainment, topical, and educational content aimed primarily at young people in the area, and works to develop relations between student and non-student residents of the town. The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The proportion of households in

2346-458: Was a Local Government District within the administrative county of Surrey. It was created in 1894 and replaced in 1906 with Egham Urban District , which was later abolished in 1974. Since 1974, Egham has been part of the Runnymede borough of Surrey. Egham is situated within the Runnymede and Weybridge (UK Parliament constituency) which has been consistently a Conservative Party (UK) hold over

2397-478: Was acquired by developer Oracle for £46m (equivalent to £80,612,000 in 2023). Englefield Green Village Residents Association members voted to remind Runnymede Borough Council that any expansion of buildings should be in keeping with the village architecture and density as locally interpreted. Gilbert 's Statue of Eros on the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, Piccadilly Circus , was kept in

2448-465: Was arrested. Despite giving an image of bravado in court, this time he was convicted, then hanged. Most criminal historians and writers feel he was repugnant but he had a defender in Victor Hugo , who wrote a small panegryric to him in one of the later sections of Les Misérables , before ultimately also agreeing that "Barthelemy at all times flew one flag only, and it was black." On the road north of

2499-584: Was parted with by sale from the Great Park in the Crown Estate. Parts of it in the west remain Crown Estate, mainly the entire south-east quarter of the Great Park (that non-built-up land seen in the map, shown, which is not in neighbouring Berkshire). The last fatal duel in England took place on Priest Hill in 1852. It was between two French refugees, Lt. Frederic Constant Cournet and Emmanuel Barthélemy . Cournet

2550-407: Was supposed to have been the better prepared for a sword duel. Barthelemy, an extremely questionable individual (responsible for at least two murders by 1852), manipulated Cournet into challenging him (supposedly over comments Cournet made about Barthelemy's girlfriend), and chose pistols for the weapon. He killed Cournet, and was subsequently arrested for murder. However, Barthelemy managed to convince

2601-561: Was the 156th show. Egham Museum is a small museum based in the Literary Institute, telling the story of the region from pre-history to the present day. Egham railway station is on the railway lines from London Waterloo station to Reading and Weybridge . Passenger services are operated by South Western Railway . Egham has three level crossings . Two bus routes connect the town and Royal Holloway to Staines-upon-Thames , Windsor and London Heathrow Airport . Strode's College

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