Addlestone

Coordinates: 51°22′10″N 0°29′24″W / 51.3695°N 0.4901°W / 51.3695; -0.4901
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Addlestone
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Region
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townAddlestone
Postcode districtKT15
Dialling code01932
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51°22′10″N 0°29′24″W / 51.3695°N 0.4901°W / 51.3695; -0.4901

Addlestone (

Borough of Runnymede
, of which it is the largest settlement.

Geography

Addlestone is approximately 10 miles (16 kilometres) northeast of Guildford and 18+1⁄2 mi (30 km) southwest of London.

Narrow green buffers separate the town with Weybridge, Chertsey and Ottershaw. 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 Windsor Forest before it was largely cut down for fields and settlements.

Elevation, soil and geology

The Bourne to the east of Addlestone forms part of the lower watercourse of the Windle Brook and Lightwater

Elevations range between 11 metres (36 ft) and 40 metres (130 ft). 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

Windle Brook in Windlesham cutting a shallow ravine, flowing past the McLaren Technology Centre and Woodham then passing to the east of the village.[2]

Eminences of the

AOD compared to St Ann's Hill, Chertsey's 61 metres (200 ft), however, is part of the landscape critical to Woburn Park and the private gardens of Woburn Hill.[2][3]

Major climate changes in Britain causing sea level changes in the last 2.58 million years, with mini Ice Ages, the ice sheets did not extend to Surrey but sand and gravel deposits swept towards the fledgling River Thames 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, head, 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.[4]

Soil is predominantly "loamy soil with naturally high groundwater".[5] Woburn Hill has "slowly permeable seasonally wet slightly acid but base-rich loamy and clayey soil". New Haw, the southern part of the Addlestone post town and historically a part has "freely draining slightly acid loamy soils"; so does Great Grove Farm.[5] West of the M25 as far as the centre of Ottershaw is a belt of "slightly acid loamy and clayey soils with impeded drainage" soil.[5]

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.[6]

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 M25 motorway accounts for the relatively large proportion of land devoted to roads for the density of population and housing.

2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005[1]
Output area Homes owned outright Owned with a loan Socially rented Privately rented Other km2 roads km2 water km2 domestic gardens km2 domestic buildings km2 non-domestic buildings Usual residents km2
Addlestone North 953 874 366 366 22 0.188 0.070 0.615 0.130 0.063 5596 2.23
Addlestone Bourneside 738 1028 318 364 30 0.239 0.011 0.496 0.134 0.073 5905 2.64
Chertsey South and Row Town 826 927 140 142 21 0.270 0.007 0.680 0.151 0.017 5328 3.18
New Haw 753 1108 204 266 22 0.257 0.139 0.652 0.162 0.053 5757 3.57

History

Detail of the Crouch Oak. The tree is hollow, but still alive.
Extract from Mogg's Twenty Four Miles Round London, 1820

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[n 1], the basic unit of civil administration.[3][7]

In 1241 the place was listed as "Attelsdene" and by 1610

St. Georg Hill, just south of the Thames
.

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

Queen Elizabeth I stopped by it and had a picnic.[8]
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

American War of Independence involved with action containing French forces based in Martinique
.

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, Recorder (judge) of Bristol, who had it rebuilt or at least considerably altered.

Chertsey Beomond Manor/Woburn Park

Addlestone, including

Dissolution of the Monasteries.[3]

Adam de Woburn lived at Woburn Park in 1260[9]

Only thirteen years after 1537 the Crown was content to lease the land rather than continue with a

Duke of Bridgwater held it and from an unknown date until 1827 the British Commander-in-Chief Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, famed for the nursery rhyme and the Duke of York Column by St James's Palace and Carlton Terrace was tenant of the lands.[n 3]

In the 1740s, the famed gardener, Philip Southcote, chose to construct a two-storey house. Now a Grade II listed building,[10] it was also named Woburn Park, with an original ornamented farm (ferme ornée) 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:[n 4]

Since 1800

Chertsey poor law union's workhouse 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 "Godley Hundred" under the Local Government Act 1894. 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.[3]

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 Woking was formed in 1902 on what were the boundaries of Chertsey parish and Horsell parish.[3]

By 1911 the ecclesiastical district and

ward 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 [Chertsey, Addlestone, and Outer Ward] into which the Chertsey Urban District was divided, and the number of new houses shows the growing character of the neighbourhood.[3]

On Station Road, a large

taxis followed in 1967 by Plessey which moved from Chessington.[11] In 1990, the site was used by Marconi.[11] These companies were important local employers.[11] By 2000 the site was derelict.[11] The site was redeveloped in the early 2010s as a business park: Aviator Park. Some of the offices have since been converted into flats with more housing being built behind. [12]

The Civic Centre, which houses the offices of Runnymede Borough Council, Addlestone Police Station and the local library, opened in 2008.[13]

Education

There are a range of state-funded primary schools 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.

There are two state-funded secondary schools in Addlestone: Chertsey High School and Jubilee High School.

Philip Southcote School is a state-funded

special school
located in Addlestone.

St George's College is privately funded. The school relocated from Croydon to Woburn Park in 1884.[3] All non-junior parts of the school occupy Woburn Park, Addlestone. Regular football matches are played on this field by the local football team, Hythe Hornets. [14]

Landmarks

The George Inn

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

Tudor Period building with 18th century and later alterations and has three gables facing the road.[15]
It is now boarded up. Almost opposite is another
sash windows.[16]

Woburn Hill

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

Doric columns to its porch with an iron balustrade above it forming a balcony in front of a central window of the floor above.[3][17]

Localities

Typical Houses of Row Hill

Rowhill or Row Hill

Row Hill forms a residential estate with shops of a butcher, baker and electrical appliance store that is contiguous with Addlestone to its west.[18] 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

public house, now closed 08/2013, now a Day Nursery, flood meadows, a sports pitch and a mobile home park.[2] It is also home to the 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, Weybridge, Shepperton, Laleham
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.[19] 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 one hundred and five, making it the fastest growing bowls club in England. It also runs the largest junior section in Bowls Surrey. In February 2023 it won a "Highly Commended" notice at the Runnymede Borough Council Civic Awards. 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 Thames Barrier) 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.[20]

Perpetual Motion Squad

A Rocket League esports team managed by local gamers.

Economy, culture and community

Addlestone is mentioned in

Martian
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.[21]

Its main road is Station Road which has many shops, two supermarkets, Addlestone

Runnymede borough council is on this street.[22]

Station Road hosts a 2011-completed business (office) estate, Aviator Park, in glass and steel which has landscaped verges with trees, shrubs and grass. Some of which has been since converted into housing.[12]

In July 2015, Bouygues Development

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

A 2023 review highlighted that Station Road, Addlestone high street has more pot holes than open businesses operating in the town centre regeneration project. With one large pot hole directly outside the project containing its own pot hole within its self. When interviewed, one local upstanding resident was quoted as saying "there is less craters on the moon, than on the road through Addlestone to Ottershaw" "The council could look at opening multiple new public swimming pools in a few of the pot holes".

Transport

Addlestone Railway Station

Road

Station Road joins into surrounding

A320 road that is convenient for closer areas of Thames Valley corridor, and the A318 to Brooklands with its museum, luxury hotel and retail park and the A3 road Painshill interchange between Hersham and Cobham
towards London.

The M25 can be accessed from Addlestone at junction 11.

Rail

Addlestone railway station is operated South Western Railway and is served by services running between London Waterloo and Guildford. Journey times to London Waterloo are between 30 and 50 minutes.

Air

London Heathrow Airport
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.[25]

River navigation

The

Coxes lock
is the deepest unmanned lock on the Navigation with a fall of 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m).

Nearest settlements

Notes and references

Notes
  1. civil parishes
    the 19th century
  2. ^ Per Malden: in 1911 the "seat of" Henry Cobbett, in 1911.
  3. ^ In 1828 £3,330 was paid for the "manor [title] and other crown lands" finally being divided into auction lots on the bankruptcy of James Goren in 1834.[3]
  4. ^ Woburn Park's actual park as mentioned forms the grounds of St George's College, open by appointment and on visitor days and is separately Grade II listed: Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1260104)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
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  5. ^ a b c "Cranfield University National Soil Resources Institute". Archived from the original on 2 June 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  6. ^ Surrey County Council collated census statistics, major settlements Archived 16 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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  18. ^ File:Rowhill shops - butcher, baker, electrical appliance centre - geograph.org.uk - 171643.jpg
  19. ^ “Awards Night Round up”. Bowls England Website. https://www.bowlsengland.com/awards-night-round-up/
  20. ^ Official match programme for the last AWTFC game – Sat 27 April 1985.
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