Weybridge
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 22 ′ N , 0 ° 28 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 19,463 2001 | ||
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| Post town | Weybridge | ||
| ZIP code section | KT13 | ||
| prefix | 01932 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South East England | ||
| Shire county | Surrey | ||
| District | Elmbridge | ||
| British Parliament | Runnymede and Weybridge | ||
Weybridge is a small town with 15,449 inhabitants (as of 2011) in the Elmbridge district of Surrey in south-east England . From 1933 to 1974 Weybridge was part of the Urban District of Walton and Weybridge . The name is derived from the River Wey , which flows into the Thames at Weybridge ; the place was created because it was relatively easy to cross the river there.
Weybridge became known throughout Europe in 2005 as the seat of a special laboratory of the European Union , which, as a reference laboratory for the influenza A virus H5N1, analyzed all suspected cases of avian flu H5N1 in the EU .
history
In the earlier Oatlands domain, which was parceled out at the beginning of the 1850s , Friedrich August, Duke of York and Albany, had the Oatlands House built in the style of neo-Gothic historicism in 1794 on the site of a previous building that had burned down , that of his wife, née Friederike von Prussia , daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia , also after the couple separated and until their death, served as a residence. An inscription on the monument called York Column , funded by subscription in 1822 , commemorates the Duchess, who had died two years earlier and emerged as a great benefactress. Oatlands House has housed a hotel, the Oatlands Park Hotel, since 1846.
The chapel behind the Roman Catholic Church of St. Charles Borromeo, built between 1834 and 1836 by the architect James Taylor , served the members of the House of Bourbon-Orléans banished from France by the February Revolution in 1848 , some of them in nearby Esher in Claremont House , resided in Richmond and Twickenham , as the burial place for relatives who died in England. There temporarily rested until they were transferred to the Chapelle royale de Dreux : Louis-Philippe I , King of the French and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples-Sicily as well as her daughter-in-law Viktoria von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld-Koháry ( Duchess of Nemours ) , Helene zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin ( Duchess of Chartres ) and Maria Karolina Augusta of Naples-Sicily (Duchess of Aumale).
Attractions
Weybridge is known for being home to the Brooklands Racing Circuit , one of the world's first car racing tracks. There is a motorsport and aviation museum there.
In the Thames on the northern edge of Weybridge lies Pharaoh's Island , which once belonged to Admiral Nelson and who used it as a fishing resort.
economy
Weybridge is home to a number of major companies. B. Procter & Gamble has its European headquarters here.
sons and daughters of the town
- Jacqueline Bisset (* 1944), actress
- Paul Casey (born 1977), golfer
- Colin Davis (1927-2013), conductor
- Richard Hughes (1900–1976), writer
- Keith Shackleton (1923–2015), painter, illustrator, naturalist and conservationist
- James Somerville (1882-1949), Admiral
- RC Trevelyan (1872–1951), writer and translator
- Sarah Webb (* 1977), regatta sailor
John Lennon , Tom Jones , Engelbert and Cliff Richard lived in Weybridge for some time. The British writer Warwick Deeping (1877–1950) lived and worked in Weybridge until his death.