Egham Hythe

Coordinates: 51°25′26″N 0°31′26″W / 51.424°N 0.524°W / 51.424; -0.524
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Egham Hythe
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSTAINES-UPON-THAMES
Postcode districtTW18
Dialling code01784
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51°25′26″N 0°31′26″W / 51.424°N 0.524°W / 51.424; -0.524

Egham Hythe, Pooley Green and Thorpe Lea are adjacent settlements in the

Staines upon Thames by the River Thames
.

Egham Hythe has been bypassed by the

Staines and the Thames Path
crosses from one bank to the other.

History

The Abbey and the causeway

In the centuries around the time of the

Assize Rolls and feet of fines denotes that Anglo-Saxon speakers ran an inland port here, as hythe means port in Old and Middle English.[2]
The other three Egham tythings were:

A water-mill known as Trumpes Mill on the stream marking with border of Thorpe in about 1500 was granted with the manor of Mylton or Middleton occupying most of the tything that was not common land to the college of Corpus Christi; tithes from it to the value of 21s. 4d (equivalent to £741 in 2021 based on rough 1323 annual rent calculations) remained due to the almoner of Chertsey Abbey until the Dissolution in 1537. The last long lessee of the manor, still somewhat intact, was Priscilla Edgell who married Richard Wyatt in 1766, their surnames giving rise to the current names of streets.[4]

Thomas de Oxenford to protect many fields, even

Sheriff of Surrey
was irked by the Causeway's condition and ordered by public proclamation:

...that all persons, ecclesiastical as well as secular, shall each, according to the extent of his holding, cause the same to be repaired with all haste.[3]

Before the century was finished,

conservation area and the building in the 19th century of Staines Bridge directly upstream of it rather than being its main street as it was before that reconstruction.[5][6]

19th century enclosure of the common

One of the two significant commons of Egham here known as Hythefield, was stated to be in Stevenson's 1809 survey[7] more highly rent-able than most such common of Surrey[3] were it to be made private, was enclosed on 12 June 1817 – to this day two large publicly administered allotments provide fertile soil in the Pooley Green locality for tomato and vegetable growers who wish to hire these, subject to a waiting list.[8]

Industrialisation/commercialisation

A gradual increase in housing and population was boosted by the building of the railway in the 1850s with stations at neighbouring

flood plain below its western hills – in 1911 six large private Egham estates are listed, all in the west of the parish.[3]

Egham Hythe gained its first school in the 1880s and its own parish church, having separated from

Egham's in 1930. Much of the campaigning and financial support for the church came from local resident and entrepreneur Edward Budgen.[9][10]

Though Egham Hythe suffered a particularly severe flood in 1947, the population increased in the period 1951–1961, forming always approximately a third of the homes of the

old civil (secular) parish of Egham disbanded in 1965, the population of which rose from 22,241 to 30,571 however the definition of Egham as a local unit at the time included Thorpe, and the whole rose from 7,786 acres (3,151 ha) to 9,350 acres (3,784 ha; 37.84 km2) in the same period.[11]

Economy

One of the large modern business, storage, industrial and retail premises on The Causeway

Industry has played an important role in the northernmost part of Egham Hythe since the 19th century due to the historic prominence of the Causeway as the route out of London for all passing traffic on the

Second World War the area was home to Lagonda, the motorcar manufacturers. The Lagonda site was later taken over by Petters Limited and is a Sainsbury's
supermarket.

In commerce, research and industry the Causeway has the large headquarters of

Salesforce.com, Future Electronics, Homebase
and Cala Homes.

Amenities

Schools

Egham Hythe Primary School

Egham Hythe has two primary schools (Thorpe Lea School and The Hythe School) and the area's academy-status secondary school – The Magna Carta School and a start-of-21st century community centre.

Egham Hythe Primary School was built in Victorian times and was located opposite St Pauls Church to the right of The Community Centre, which was built in the 1960s, at around the same time that the new Secondary School. The old primary school was converted into new housing and apartments in the late 1990s, but the school building's exterior walls and roof were retained.

Religion

Its churches include High but modern

a Pentecostal fellowship. St John of Rochester Roman Catholic church.[14]
In Staines a wider range of religions have their own places of community and worship.

Thorpe Hay Meadow

Thorpe Hay Meadow, Egham Hythe and Thorpe

Egham Hythe provides access to Thorpe Hay Meadow, one of the few surviving example of unimproved grassland on Thames Gravel in Surrey.[15] It has been managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust since 1988. This 16-acre (6.5 ha) site contains at least 157 different plant species. It is managed to encourage biodiversity.

Demography

The proportion of households in Egham Hythe who owned their home outright was 11.2% below the regional average. The proportion who owned their home with a loan was 4.1% higher than the regional average; providing overall a greater proportion than average of rented residential property and of

social housing, and above to the average in Surrey and Runnymede and slightly higher than the national average; a third, 539 households were rented directly from the local authority in 2011.[1]

2011 Census Key Statistics
Output area Population Households % Owned outright % Owned with a loan hectares[1]
Egham Hythe (ward) 6,474 1,640 21.3 39.2 191[1]

Local government

At Surrey County Council, one of the 81 representatives represents the area within the Egham division.[16]

At

Runnymede Borough Council all wards of the borough are deemed appropriate to be represented under the current constitution of councillors by three councillors.[17]

Runnymede Borough Councillor
Election Member[17] Party

Ward

2021 Alex Balkan Conservative Egham Hythe
2019 Robert Ashley King
Labour and Co-operative
 Egham Hythe
2022 James Rhys Davies
Labour and Co-operative
 Egham Hythe
Surrey County Councillor
Election Member

Electoral Division

2021 Robert Ashley King Egham

References

  1. ^
    United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics
    Retrieved 20 November 2013
  2. ^ Hythe (definition at wiktionary)
  3. ^ a b c d e f H.E. Malden, ed. (1911). "Parishes: Egham". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  4. Ordnance survey
    website
  5. ^ Egham Hythe Conservation Area Archived 31 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Runnymede Borough Council
  6. ^ OS Map with Listed Buildings and Parks marked Archived 24 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Stevenson, View of the Agriculture of Surrey (1809)
  8. ^ Runnymede Borough Council
  9. ^ "History of St Paul's Egham Hythe". St Paul's Egham Hythe. 2018. Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  10. ^ "'Cathedral of the Gravel Pits' - St Paul's Church". Egham Hythe History Walk (PDF). Runnymede Borough Council. p. 5.
  11. ^ A vision of Britain The University of Portsmouth and others. Retrieved 20 November 2013
  12. ^ Egham Hythe, St Paul the Church of England Retrieved 20 November 2013
  13. ^ Wendover Road Methodist Church Archived 18 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 20 November 2013
  14. ^ Egham Community Churches and Religious Matters Retrieved 20 November 2013
  15. ^ Surrey Wildlife Trust Retrieved 23 February 2018
  16. ^ Electoral Divisions Archived 2 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Surrey County Council. Retrieved 6 November 2013
  17. ^ a b "Runnymede Borough Council - Your councillors". www.runnymede.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019.

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