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Coordinates: 51°24′18″N 0°39′22″W / 51.405°N 0.656°W
Sunninghill[1] is a village in the civil parish of Sunninghill in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead[2] in the English shire county of Berkshire.
[edit] LocationIt is south west and about 12 miles (19 km) from Heathrow Airport and 26 miles (42 km) from Central London. It is just outside Ascot, one of the UK's most famous locations for horse racing. It is close to Sunningdale, Bracknell, Windsor Great Park and Wentworth Golf Club. The town of Windsor is about 7 miles (11 km). Junction 3 of the M3 motorway and the A30 road are within 1 mile (2 km) at Lightwater. M25 London Orbital motorway junctions 3 at Staines and 11 at Chertsey are both 7 miles (11 km). The nearest railway stations are Ascot and Sunningdale on the London Waterloo to Reading line. [edit] GovernanceThe village is part of the of Sunninghill and Ascot Parish Council area with an office in Ascot[3]. [edit] HistoryThe name Sunninghill means "the home of Sunna's people"[4]. The Church of England parish church of Saint Michael and All Angels[5] was originally established about AD 890[citation needed] but was rebuilt in 1808 and 1826-27.[6] There are records of people living in or near Sunninghill since the 12th century.[citation needed] At nearby Silwood Park, the Manor Sunninghill was settled in 1362 by John de Sunninghill, the first of numerous recorded residents of the area[4]. The park is now a campus of Imperial College London, where CONSORT[7], a small nuclear reactor for civilian scientific research, has been in use since 1964. Cordes Hall, in the centre of the village, was designed by Joseph and Edward Morris and built in 1902.[6] During World War II the village was home to the exiled King Zog of Albania, who lived in Bagshot Road for a few months in 1941.[citation needed] The areas is mainly residential, characterised by generally large dwellings set in their own grounds. Beatle John Lennon and his new wife Yoko Ono lived at the house known as Tittenhurst Park in London Road from 1969-71.[citation needed] Another Beatle, Ringo Starr then lived there till the late 1980s.[citation needed] In the 19th century the house was also the home of Thomas Holloway the Victorian businessman and philanthropist together with his wife, Jane.[citation needed] Holloway was the founder of Royal Holloway, London University in nearby Englefield Green and also Holloway Sanatorium also nearby in Virginia Water[8]. Jane died in 1875, aged 61; Holloway died there on 26 December 1875, aged 83. They are buried in a family grave at Sunninghill churchyard. [edit] AmenitiesSunninghill Saints Sports Club (2009) is a Saturday morning football and sports club for primary age children. [9]. [edit] References
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