Farnborough (London)

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Farnborough
Entrance to Farnborough
Entrance to Farnborough
Coordinates 51 ° 22 ′  N , 0 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′  N , 0 ° 4 ′  E
OS National Grid TQ445645
Farnborough (Greater London)
Farnborough
Farnborough
Residents 9033
administration
Post town ORPINGTON
ZIP code section BR6
prefix 01689
Part of the country England
London Borough Bromley
British Parliament Orpington

Farnborough is a borough in the London borough of Bromley . It lies south of Orpington and is bounded on the west by Keston . Chelsfield joins in the east .

history

The name of the district goes back to the term Fearnbiorginga , which means something like 'village by the ferns on the hill'. The first written mention of Farnborough comes from King Æthelberht of Wessex , who sold around 385 hectares of what is now the city in 862 . The place is not recorded in the Domesday Book , but it already existed in the Middle Ages and the area was owned by Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester around 1200 . The village developed on the road from London to Hastings . It initially formed a parish in the Harde of Ruxley in Kent . In 1840 it was assigned to the Metropolitan Police District . From 1894 to 1934 Farnborough was part of the Bromley Rural District . In implementation of a territorial reform, the municipality was then dissolved and the municipality was divided between the Municipal Borough of Bromley and the Orpington Urban District . Farnborough has been part of the London Borough of Bromley since 1965.

Plane crash in 2008

The district gained media fame on March 30, 2008 when a Cessna Citation I crashed into one of the houses on Romsey Close. The two pilots and three passengers were killed, while no one was injured on the ground. The plane had taken off from the nearby Biggin Hill airport and was en route to Pau , France , when the pilot made an emergency call and tried to return to the airport. Among the passengers killed were Eurosport commentator David Leslie and racing driver Richard Lloyd . The Air Accidents Investigation Branch . In their final report, it was found that a number of technical glitches caused the crash.

population

According to the 2001 census , Farnborough had 9,033 residents. The population development is as follows:

year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931
population 314 452 553 638 680 920 955 1.086 1.451 1.627 2.262 3.210 3.322 4.373

traffic

Farnborough is on the A21 from Lewisham to Hastings. The district does not have its own train station. The nearest National Rail stations are Orpington Railway Station and Chelsfield Railway Station, each about three kilometers from the center of Farnborough. Biggin Hill Airport is six kilometers south of the city center.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Farnborough  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Key Figures for 2001 Census: Census Area Statistics. National Office of Statistics, accessed November 7, 2013 .
  2. ^ Village History. (No longer available online.) Farnborough Village Society, archived from the original June 12, 2013 ; accessed on January 29, 2018 .
  3. ^ Farnborough . In: visionsofbritain.org.uk . Retrieved March 31, 2008.
  4. ^ Five killed in Kent plane crash , BBC . Retrieved November 7, 2013. 
  5. ↑ Two Victims Of Private Jet Crash Named , Sky News . March 30, 2008. Retrieved November 7, 2013. 
  6. ^ David Leslie and Richard Lloyd killed in plane accident , Planet Le Mans. March 30, 2008. Retrieved November 7, 2013. 
  7. ^ K. Conradi, M. Cook, N. Dann, M. Jarvis, A. Burrows: Aircraft Accident Report No 3/2010 . In: Air Accidents Investigation Branch (Ed.): AAIB Bulletin . No. 6 , March 21, 2010, p. 59 ( aaib.gov.uk [PDF; accessed November 7, 2013]).
  8. ↑ table . In: visionofbritain.org.uk . Retrieved November 7, 2013.