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20-537: New Haw is a village which is part of the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey , England . It is located approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Addlestone and 20 miles (32 km) southwest by west of London . New Haw borders Byfleet , Addlestone , Weybridge , Ottershaw , West Byfleet and Woodham . The Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency , an executive agency of DEFRA , has its central laboratories in

40-467: A popular shopping area for local residents is The Broadway, where a number of shops, public houses and restaurants are located. In 1873 All Saints School was founded as a school for Poor Persons, probably with a grant from John Marshall-Paine, who had previously lived at Sayes Court, Addlestone. The school opened in 1874 and included accommodation for 92 pupils. School records show that there were frequent absences during harvesting or at other times when help

60-484: A range of youth activities and a full programme of events for all ages. In 2009 Bosco's and Claire's Cafe were added to the church buildings. The village has a number of open spaces. The largest is Heathervale Park, a green space bordering the Basingstoke canal. Fullbrook School offers local residents athletic facilities, including a gym, football pitches, and tennis courts. There are a number of public houses throughout

80-556: 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

100-595: A semi-rural part of New Haw. The laboratory is notable as being one of the principal test centres for the H5N1 virus. New Haw stands on an irregular south-west border close to Woking, the River Wey , the start of the Basingstoke Canal , and the (River Bourne, Addlestone Branch) . The Wey Navigation rises through three steep locks in the relatively short New Haw section. "Haw" is an Old English word for "lock gate", and it

120-544: 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

140-582: 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

160-543: Is held by Brooklands Museum . The village centre lies around the junction of Woodham Lane and the Scotland Bridge Road roundabout and on the northwest side of the latter, until recently, a well-established motor vehicle sales business occupied an original 1930s garage, petrol station and workshop known for many years as "Woodham Motors". With the commuter boom of the 1950/60s, New Haw expanded further southwest down Woodham Lane towards West Byfleet and Woodham and

180-420: Is possible that New Haw developed following the installation of the "new" lock gate in 1653, near The White Hart pub. The Grade II Listed New Haw lock-keeper's cottage (pictured) dates from 1782 but was heavily rebuilt with steel strengthening beams added above the ground floor windows after a gas explosion and fire in 1982. It appeared as Mr. Bedford's "Cherry Cottage" in the 1964 science-fiction film First Men in

200-554: 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

220-490: 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

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240-519: 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

260-798: The Grange Community Infant School, and the Grove nursery. The M25 motorway passes, without junctions for more than 3 miles, through the west of the village. The main north-south road, the A318 road in New Haw is one of few A-roads in the South East to have narrow sections for HGVs at the bridge crossing the Wey Navigation and with a sharp bend on the turn-off for Woodham. The village has two railway stations: West Byfleet and Byfleet and New Haw , which

280-521: The Moon , based loosely on the H.G. Wells novel of the same title published in 1901. There is a little evidence of New Haw's history. The original village was a hamlet of Woking, around Crockford Park farm, bordering Addlestone . Several aeroplanes are believed to have crashed in New Haw during the early decades of the 20th century. On 25 May 1912, an Avro Type F cabin monoplane landed upside down on nearby Addlestone Moor. Photographic evidence of this accident

300-628: The area: the Black Prince (dating from 1937 and still largely unaltered externally) on Woodham Lane and Scotland Bridge Road roundabout, the Station (was the Claremont, then the Catherine of Aragon) next to West Byfleet railway station, and The White Hart adjacent to the Wey Navigation on New Haw Road roundabout with Woodham Lane and Byfleet Road. Local schools include: New Haw Junior School, Fullbrook School ,

320-524: 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

340-463: 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

360-494: 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

380-427: Was needed on the farms. Conditions at the school were far from ideal. The schoolroom was often in need of repair, and during the winter of 1906 temperatures plummeted to 1 °C (35 degrees Fahrenheit), and at one time the teacher of the infants was herself only 11 years old. In 1911 the school became All Saints' Church. It is part of the diocese of Guildford . All Saints' New Haw has a thriving congregation including

400-456: Was originally called West Weybridge. In the 1950s/60s New Haw and Woodham Tug of War club won a number of national titles. They even appeared in the American magazine Sports Illustrated. [REDACTED] Media related to New Haw at Wikimedia Commons Runnymede (borough) The Borough of Runnymede is a local government district with borough status in Surrey , England. Its council

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