Sunningdale
| Sunningdale | |
| Berkshire | |
|---|---|
 Church and houses in Sunningdale | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU955675 |
| Location: | 51°23’53"N, -0°37’34"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 4,875 (2001) |
| Post town: | Ascot |
| Postcode: | SL5 |
| Dialling code: | 01344 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Windsor |
Sunningdale is a large and very prosperous village in eastern Berkshire, hard against and indeed spilling over the border of Surrey: the county boundary here is marked by a brook feeding into Virginia Water a little to the north. Sunningdale is a village studded with the houses of the wealthy.
Sunningdale is found close Ascot, Sunninghill and Virginia Water and 7 miles east of Camberley in neighbouring Surrey. It stands by the A30 old trunk road. It has a station on the London Waterloo line and serves as a commuter town to London.
The area is popular with professional golfers due to the proximity of Sunningdale Golf Club and Wentworth Golf Club, both lying in Surrey.
Houses and estates
Charters
Charters is a Grade-II listed art deco mansion, built in 1938 for the industrialist Frank Parkinson by the architects Adie Button and Partners. It was built on the site of an earlier house built in the late 1860s by William Terrick Hamilton. Parkinson’s guests included Winston Churchill and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In 1949, the house was bought by Sir Montague Burton. It later became a corporate headquarters and has since been redeveloped as an apartment complex and spa.
Coworth House
Coworth House, now the Coworth Park Hotel, this is a late 18th-century country house. It was the home of Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, the early 20th century Secretary of State for War and British Ambassador to France.
Sunningdale Park
- Main article: Sunningdale Park
The brief Sunningdale Agreement was signed at Sunningdale Park, at the Civil Service Staff College (now the National School of Government) on 9 December 1973. An early precursor of the Northern Ireland peace process,[1] the agreement fell apart swiftly in the face of public hostility and impracticality.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Sunningdale) |
- Sunningdale Parish Council Web Site
- Berkshire History: Sunningdale
- Holy Trinity Sunningdale Community