Editing Weybridge

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 | country                  = England
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 | static_image_caption     = The Old Bridge on the River Wey
 | official_name            = Weybridge
 | map_type                 = Surrey
 | population               = 15,449
 | population_ref           = (2011 census)<ref name=ons>{{cite web |url= http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk |title= United Kingdom Census 2011 Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density |date= 11 February 2003 |publisher= [[Office for National Statistics]] |access-date= 21 November 2013 |archive-date= 11 February 2003 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030211201309/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |url-status= live }}</ref> or 29,837 (Built-up Area, which extends to Byfleet)<ref name=NOMIS>{{NOMIS2011|id=1119885117|title=Weybridge Built-up area sub division|access-date=23 August 2020}}</ref>
 | area_total_km2           = 13.73
 | civil_parish             = n/a
 | shire_district           = [[Borough of Elmbridge|Elmbridge]]
 | shire_county             = [[Surrey]]
 | region                   = South East England
 | constituency_westminster = [[Runnymede and Weybridge (UK Parliament constituency)|Runnymede and Weybridge]]
 | post_town                = Weybridge
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'''Weybridge''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|w|eɪ|b|r|ɪ|dʒ}}) is a town in the [[Borough of Elmbridge|Elmbridge]] district in [[Surrey]], England, around {{convert|27|km|mi|order=flip|abbr=on|sigfig=2}} southwest of central London. The settlement is recorded as ''Waigebrugge'' and ''Weibrugge'' in the 7th century and the name derives from a crossing point of the [[River Wey]], which flows into the [[River Thames]] to the north of the town centre. The earliest evidence of human activity is from the [[Bronze Age]]. During the [[Anglo-Saxon]] and [[Middle Ages|medieval periods]], Weybridge was held by [[Chertsey Abbey]]. In 2011 it had a population of 15,449.

In the 1530s, [[Henry VIII]] constructed [[Oatlands Palace]] to the north of the town centre, which he intended to be the residence of his fourth wife, [[Anne of Cleves]]. He married [[Catherine Howard]] there in July 1540 and the palace remained a royal residence until the [[English Civil War|Civil War]]. The buildings were demolished in the early 1650s and a new mansion, Oatlands House, was constructed to the east of Weybridge later the same century. [[Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany]] owned the mansion in the 18th century.

The town began to expand beyond its medieval footprint in the early 19th century, catalysed by the initial breakup of the Oatlands House estate, the enclosure of [[Weybridge Heath]] and the opening of [[Weybridge railway station|the railway station]] in 1838. The developer, [[Walter George Tarrant|W. G. Tarrant]], was responsible for the construction of housing on [[St George's Hill]] in the first half of the 20th century.

The world's first purpose-built racing circuit was constructed at [[Brooklands]] in 1907. The track hosted the [[1926 British Grand Prix|first British Grand Prix]] in 1926 and was used by [[Malcolm Campbell]] to develop his final [[land speed record]] car, [[Campbell-Railton Blue Bird]]. Throughout the 20th century, Brooklands was an important location for the aerospace industry and aircraft developed and tested there included the [[Sopwith Camel]], the [[Vickers Wellington|Wellington bomber]] and the [[Hawker Hurricane|Hurricane fighter]]. [[Vickers]] established a factory at the circuit in 1915 and aircraft manufacturing continued at the site until 1988.

==Toponymy==
The first written records of a settlement at Weybridge date from the 7th century, when its name is given as ''Waigebrugge'' and ''Weibrugge''.<ref name=Gover_1934_pp98-99>{{harvnb|Gover|Mawer|Stenton|1969|pp=98–99}}</ref> It appears in [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Webrige'' and ''Webruge''<ref name=Surrey_Domesday>{{cite web |url= http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |title= Surrey Domesday Book |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070715015325/http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |archive-date= 15 July 2007 }}</ref> and in subsequent surviving documents as ''Waibrigge'' and ''Wabrigge'' (12th century) and ''Wybrugge'' and ''Weybrugge'' (13th century). The name simply means "Bridge over the River Wey".<ref name=Gover_1934_pp98-99/>

[[Oatlands, Surrey|Oatlands]] is first recorded in 1383 as ''Otelands'', which may indicate that the area was used for the [[agriculture|cultivation]] of [[oat]]s.<ref name=Gover_1934_pp98-99/> The earliest written record of Brooklands is from 1548, when it appears as ''Brokeland''. The name probably means "marshy land".<ref name=Gover_1934_pp98-99/> [[St George's Hill]] appears to have acquired its current name in the early 17th century. It is recorded as ''Le Bery'' in 1337 and ''Oldebury'' in 1548. The previous name may derive from the [[Old English]] word ''burh'', which might reference the [[Iron Age]] earthworks on the hill.<ref name=Gover_1934_p97>{{harvnb|Gover|Mawer|Stenton|1969|p=97}}</ref>

==Geography==
{{see also|Surrey#Climate}}

===Location and topography===
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Weybridge is in northwest [[Surrey]], approximately {{convert|27|km|mi|order=flip|abbr=on|sigfig=2}} southwest of central London.<ref name=WS_Boundaries>{{cite web|url= https://www.weybridgesociety.org.uk/local-info/weybridge-boundaries/ |title= Weybridge Boundaries |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= January 2018 |publisher= Weybridge Society |access-date= 6 September 2021 |archive-date= 6 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210906194637/https://www.weybridgesociety.org.uk/local-info/weybridge-boundaries/ |url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Nightingale |first= Laura |date= 31 October 2021 |title= The Surrey town where Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery/surrey-town-eamonn-holmes-ruth-22012624 |work= Surrey Live |access-date= 31 October 2021}}</ref> The town centre is close to the confluence of the [[River Wey]] and the [[River Thames]], but the settlement also includes [[St George's Hill]] and [[Brooklands]], to the south.<ref name=WS_Boundaries/> The highest point in Weybridge is {{convert|78|m|ft|abbr=on|sigfig=3}} above [[ordnance datum]], but the low-lying areas close to the rivers are only {{convert|10|-|20|m|ft|abbr=on}} above sea level.

Neighbouring settlements include [[Shepperton]] to the north, [[Walton-on-Thames]] to the east, [[Wisley]] to the south and [[Addlestone]] to the west.<ref name=WS_Boundaries/>

===Geology===
The rock [[stratum|strata]] on which Weybridge sits were deposited in the [[Cenozoic]]. The [[Bagshot Formation|Bagshot Sands]] are the main outcrop to the south of the town and at Brooklands.<ref name=Dewey_1915_pp38-39>{{harvnb|Dewey|Bromehead|1915|pp=38–39}}</ref> From the centre of Weybridge northwards towards the Thames, the surface geology is dominated by river gravels.<ref>{{harvnb|Dewey|Bromehead|1915|p=77}}</ref>

Overlying the Bagshot Sands at St George's Hill is a cap of Bracklesham Clay,<ref name=Dewey_1915_pp38-39/> which was used for [[brickworks|brickmaking]] in the 19th century.<ref>{{harvnb|Tarplee|1998|loc=133-4}}</ref> [[Ironstone]], containing 33-48% [[iron(III) oxide]], is also found on the Hill,<ref>{{harvnb|Dewey|Bromehead|1915|pp=50–51}}</ref> along with a capping of [[chert]] gravels, thought to have been deposited by a former course of the River Wey.<ref>{{harvnb|Dewey|Bromehead|1915|p=62}}</ref>

==History==
===Early history===
The earliest evidence of human occupation in Weybridge is from the [[Bronze Age Britain|Bronze Age]]. A number of weapons, including socketed [[axe|axe heads]], a [[rapier]], and a [[palstave]], were retrieved from the River Wey close to the Wey Bridge in 1912.<ref name=Gardner_1912>{{cite journal |last1= Gardner |first1= Eric |year= 1912 |title= Some Prehistoric and Saxon Antiquities found in the Neighbourhood of Weybridge |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_25/surreyac025_129-135_gardner.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Collections |volume= 25 |pages= 129–135 |access-date= 10 August 2021 |archive-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210818130341/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1%2Fdissemination%2Fpdf%2Fvol_25%2Fsurreyac025_129-135_gardner.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name=White_1999_p3>{{harvnb|White|1999|p=3}}</ref> At least fifty [[Urn#Cremation urns|cinerary urns]] dating from the same period were found in the area in the 19th and early 20th centuries.<ref name=Gardner_1912/> Three of the urns were recovered from a [[tumulus|barrow]] during building work on the [[Silvermere]] estate (south of St George's Hill) and were found to contain bones and charcoal.<ref name=Brayley_1841_pp394-397>{{harvnb|Brayley|Britton|1841|pp=394–397}}</ref>

A [[List of copper alloys|copper-alloy]] bucket, now held by the [[British Museum]], was discovered during the construction of the Brooklands racetrack in 1907. It is thought to have originated in northern Italy in the late Bronze or early [[British Iron Age|Iron Age]] and similar vessels have been found in Austria, Belgium and Germany.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1907-0715-1 |title= The Brooklands Bucket |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= November 2014 |publisher= The British Museum |access-date= 10 August 2021 |archive-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210818130403/https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1907-0715-1 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Smith |first1= Reginald A. |year= 1908 |title= The Weybridge Bucket, and Prehistoric Trade with Italy |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_21/surreyac021_165-169_smith.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Collections |volume= 21 |pages= 165–169 |access-date= 10 August 2021 |archive-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210818130356/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1%2Fdissemination%2Fpdf%2Fvol_21%2Fsurreyac021_165-169_smith.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> During the Iron Age, there was a [[hillforts in Britain|fort]] on St George's Hill. It covered an area of around {{convert|14|acre|ha|abbr=on}} and was protected by a rampart and ditch.<ref name=Gardiner_1911>{{cite journal|last1= Gardner |first1= Eric |year= 1911 |title= The British stronghold of St George's Hill, Weybridge |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_24/surreyac024_040-055_gardner.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Collections |volume= 24 |pages= 40–55 |access-date= 10 August 2021 |archive-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210818130356/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1%2Fdissemination%2Fpdf%2Fvol_24%2Fsurreyac024_040-055_gardner.pdf |url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Poulton |first1= Robert |last2= O'Connell |first2= Martin |year= 1984 |title= St George's Hill fort, excavations in 1981 |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_75/surreyac075_275-280_poulton.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Collections |volume= 75 |pages= 275–280 |doi= 10.5284/1069087 |access-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210819210952/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1%2Fdissemination%2Fpdf%2Fvol_75%2Fsurreyac075_275-280_poulton.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> Most traces of the fort were destroyed by housebuilding in the first half of the 20th century.<ref name=White_1999_p3/> Remains of a [[Roundhouse (dwelling)#United Kingdom|roundhouse]] and archaeological evidence of iron workings were discovered in the triangle of land between the railway lines in 1981.<ref name=Tomalin_1984>{{cite journal |last1= Tomalin |first1= David J. |last2= Hanworth |first2= Rosamond |year= 1984 |title= St George's Hill fort, excavations in 1981 |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-2249-1/dissemination/pdf/r_vol_4/surreyrv004_001-088_hanworth.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Society Research Volumes |volume= 4 |pages= 1–88 |access-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210819210955/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2249-1%2Fdissemination%2Fpdf%2Fr_vol_4%2Fsurreyrv004_001-088_hanworth.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref>

There is not thought to have been a significant [[Roman Britain|Roman]] presence in Weybridge, but 68 bronze [[Roman currency|coins]] of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries were found at Brooklands in 1907.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Hill |first1= G. F. |year= 1909 |title= A hoard of Roman Bronze coins of the Tetrarchy, from the Brooklands motor-track, Weybridge |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_22/surreyac022_184-191_hill.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Collections |volume= 22 |pages= 184–191 |access-date= 10 August 2021 |archive-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210818130344/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1%2Fdissemination%2Fpdf%2Fvol_22%2Fsurreyac022_184-191_hill.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> Much of the [[hoard]], which included [[nummus|''nummi'']] from the reigns of [[Diocletian]] (284–305 CE),<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1907-1009-19 |title= Coin of Diocletian |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= November 2014 |publisher= The British Museum |access-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210818130339/https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1907-1009-19 |url-status= live }}</ref> [[Maximian]] (286–305),<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1907-1009-44 |title= Coin of Maximian |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= November 2014 |publisher= The British Museum |access-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210818130348/https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1907-1009-44 |url-status= live }}</ref> [[Constantius Chlorus|Constantius I]] (305–306)<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1907-1009-32 |title= Coin of Constantius I |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= November 2014 |publisher= The British Museum |access-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210818130415/https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1907-1009-32 |url-status= live }}</ref> and [[Galerius]] (305–311), was donated to the British Museum.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1907-1009-36 |title= Coin of Galerius |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= November 2014 |publisher= The British Museum |access-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210818130354/https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1907-1009-36 |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Governance===
There are three separate entries for Weybridge in Domesday Book. The first area of land described was held by  [[Odo of Bayeux|Bishop Odo of Bayeux]] as tenant-in-chief and Herfrid of Throwley as [[lord of the manor|lesser tenant]]. It included {{convert|16|acre|ha|abbr=on}} of meadow and woodland for five swine with a value of £5 per annum. The other two entries list areas belonging to [[Chertsey Abbey]], totalling a further 16 acres of meadow, land for four swine and ploughland for 1½ plough teams. None of the entries records a church or a mill in the settlement.<ref name=Surrey_Domesday/><ref name=Weybridge_Domesday>{{cite web|url= https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0764/weybridge/ |title= Weybridge |author= Powell-Smith A |year= 2011 |publisher= Open Domesday |access-date= 22 August 2021 |archive-date= 16 January 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190116093724/https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0764/weybridge/ |url-status= live}}</ref>

There are only sporadic surviving references to Weybridge in the following centuries. A chapel is mentioned in a [[papal bull]] issued by [[Pope Alexander III]] in 1176 and a later document shows that Chertsey Abbey had sold the [[advowson]] to [[Newark Priory]] by 1200. By 1262, the Priory had obtained a license that confirmed its rights to appoint a priest, to hold church property and to collect [[tithe]]s from the local residents. In 1284 the village was held by Geoffrey de Lucy as a lesser tenant of Chertsey Abbey.<ref>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=8–19}}</ref>

[[File:Palace - Oatlands.jpg|thumb|right|Oatlands Palace (17th century)]]
[[File:Oatlands Palace gateway, Weybridge, Surrey.jpg|thumb|Entrance gateway to the former Oatlands Palace built {{circa|1545}}<ref name=Oatlands_gateway>{{NHLE|num=1191628|desc=Entrance gates and walls to Oatlands Palace|grade=II|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=4 September 2021}}</ref>]]
Following the [[dissolution of the monasteries]], Weybridge was held by the Rede family for three years, before passing to the Crown in 1537.<ref>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=10–12}}</ref> In June of the same year, [[Henry VIII]] began to construct [[Oatlands Palace]] by expanding an existing late-medieval manor house located to the north of the town centre. Some of the stone used in the construction of the foundations was taken from the demolition of Chertsey Abbey.<ref name=EM_Oatlands>{{cite web |url= https://elmbridgemuseum.org.uk/online-exhibitions/oatlands-from-henry-viiis-palace-to-first-world-war-hospital/ |title= Oatlands Palace |publisher= Elmbridge Museum |date= March 2021 |access-date= 22 August 2021 |archive-date= 22 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210822130044/https://elmbridgemuseum.org.uk/online-exhibitions/oatlands-from-henry-viiis-palace-to-first-world-war-hospital/ |url-status= live }}</ref> Henry had intended that the palace would become the residence of his fourth wife, [[Anne of Cleves]], but the marriage was annulled after six months.<ref name=EM_Oatlands/> The king married his fifth wife, [[Catherine Howard]], at Oatlands, but rarely visited thereafter.<ref>{{harvnb|White|1999|p=13}}</ref> Following Henry's death the palace remained a possession of the Crown until the [[Commonwealth of England|Commonwealth]], when the contents were sold and the buildings demolished.<ref>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=16–18}}</ref> Only a side entrance gate and adjoining sections of walls, which date from {{circa|1545}}, remain.<ref name=Oatlands_gateway/>

[[Tudor period#Local government|Reforms during the Tudor period]] reduced the importance of [[manorial court]]s and the day-to-day administration of towns such as Weybridge became the responsibility of the [[vestry]] of the parish church.<ref name=Kümin_1996_pp250-255>{{harvnb|Kümin|1996|pp=250–255}}</ref> The Weybridge vestry oversaw the distribution of [[poor relief]] and the maintenance of local roads. In the 1840s, responsibility for poor relief was transferred to the Chertsey Board of Guardians of the Poor. Local drainage and highways boards were established in the 1860s and in the 1870s a burial board was created to purchase land for new cemeteries.<ref name=White_1999_pp86-88>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=86–88}}</ref>

The [[Local Government Act 1888]] transferred many administrative responsibilities to the newly formed [[Surrey County Council]] and was followed by an [[Local Government Act 1894|1894 Act]] that created the Weybridge Urban District Council (UDC). Initially the council met at the [[National school (England and Wales)|National school]], but moved to Aberdeen House at the junction of High Street and Baker Street in 1908. As a result of the [[Local Government Act 1929]], the UDCs of Weybridge and Walton were combined in 1932. In 1951 the [[civil parish]] of Weybridge had a population of 8083.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10070790/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Cobham CP/AP through time|publisher=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]]|accessdate=27 April 2024}}</ref> On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished. The [[Walton and Weybridge Urban District|unified council]] was merged with the [[Esher Urban District|Esher UDC]] to form [[Elmbridge Borough Council]] in 1974.<ref name=White_1999_pp86-88/>

===Transport and communications===
The name "Weybridge" suggests that there has been a bridge over the River Wey in the area since Anglo-Saxon times. During the [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan period]], the bridge was a wooden structure, {{convert|240|ft|m|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|5.25|ft|m|abbr=on}} wide and was maintained by [[Elizabeth I]] in her capacity as lord of the manor.<ref name=White_1999_pp40-43>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=40–43}}</ref> The structure was rebuilt in 1808 on 13 wooden arches. The present bridge dates from 1865 and is constructed from brick, iron and stone.<ref name=White_1999_pp40-43/><ref>{{cite journal|last= Williams |first= David |date= May 2004 |title= Weybridge |url= https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS375_0.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Society Bulletin |volume= 375 |page= 16 |access-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-date= 26 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201126232608/https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS375_0.pdf |url-status= live}}</ref> A second bridge, downstream of the first, was completed in 1945 and now carries the A317.<ref name=White_1999_pp40-43/>

[[File:Thames Lock.jpg|thumb|right|Thames Lock, Wey Navigation]]
Both the Thames and the Wey have been used for transport since ancient times. By the 14th century, there was a [[wharf]] at Weybridge used for shipment of timber<ref name=White_1999_pp40-43/> and, in 1463, Thomas Warner was given permission to build a dock on his land, which became known as the "Crown Wharf".<ref>{{harvnb|Thacker|1920|p=426}}</ref> In 1537, materials for the construction of Oatlands Palace were transported to Weybridge by river.<ref name=White_1999_pp40-43/> The [[Wey and Godalming Navigations|River Wey Navigation]] was authorised by [[Act of Parliament (UK)|Act of Parliament]] in 1651. Twelve [[lock (water navigation)|locks]] (including two flood locks) and {{convert|9|mi|km|abbr=on}} of new [[canal|cuts]] were constructed between the Thames and [[Guildford]].<ref>{{harvnb|Hadfield|1969|pp=118–119}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Vine|1996|p=10}}</ref> Thames Lock was rebuilt in concrete in the 1930s, but like all the locks on the Wey, it was originally turf sided.<ref name=Fisher_2013_p244>{{harvnb|Fisher|2013|p=244}}</ref>{{refn| The water level on the Weybridge section of the Thames was lowered in the 19th century, necessitating the addition of a third lockgate at Thames Lock, which holds back sufficient water for boats to clear the bottom cill of the original lock.<ref name=Fisher_2013_p244/><ref>{{cite web|url= http://weyriver.co.uk/theriver/wey_nav_10.htm |title= Wey Navigation: Town Lock to the Thames |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2012 |publisher= The Wey Valley |access-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-date= 11 August 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200811163252/http://weyriver.co.uk/theriver/wey_nav_10.htm |url-status= live}}</ref>|group=note}}

The earliest locks on the upper Thames were built in the 17th century, following the establishment of the [[Oxford-Burcot Commission]].<ref>{{harvnb|Thacker|1914|p=9}}</ref> However, efforts to improve the stretch of the river through Weybridge did not start until the following century. In 1789, a [[flash lock]] was installed at [[Sunbury Lock|Sunbury]], but was replaced by a [[Lock (water navigation)|pound lock]] in 1812.<ref>{{harvnb|Thacker|1920|pp=435–436}}</ref> [[Shepperton Lock]] opened the following year.<ref>{{harvnb|Thacker|1920|p=419}}</ref> The construction of the locks regulated the flow of the river and increased its depth, facilitating navigation and maintaining an adequate head of water to power [[watermill|mills]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Oliver |first1= Stuart |year= 2010 |title= Navigability and the improvement of the river Thames, 1605-1815 |journal= The Geographical Journal |volume= 176 |issue= 2 |pages= 164–177 |doi= 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2010.00354.x |jstor= 40835641 |bibcode= 2010GeogJ.176..164O }}</ref>

The River Thames through Weybridge was further improved when the [[Desborough Cut]] was opened in 1935. The {{convert|100|ft|m|abbr=on|adj=mid|wide}} navigable channel bypasses a {{convert|3|mi|0|spell=in|adj=on}} meander and was primarily designed to increase the flood capacity of the river.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times|title= "Desborough Channel" opened |date= 11 July 1935 |page= 16 |issue= 47113}}</ref> Construction of the cut created the {{convert|45|ha|acre|adj=on|abbr=on}} Desborough Island,<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/walks/explore-surrey-s-islands-of-the-river-thames-7109700 |title= Explore Surrey's islands of the River Thames |last= Vickers |first= Miranda |orig-date= 19 June 2013 |date= 3 February 2021 |work= Great British Life |access-date= 14 September 2021 |archive-date= 16 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210916202411/https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/walks/explore-surrey-s-islands-of-the-river-thames-7109700 |url-status= live}}</ref> the entirety of which is in Weybridge.<ref name=WS_Boundaries/>

[[File: Weybridge_Waterloo_-_Basingstoke_train_passing_geograph-2670448-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|right|[[Weybridge railway station]], 1958{{refn|A [[BR Standard Class 4 4-6-0]] steam locomotive hauls an express service to {{rws|Basingstoke}} through {{rws|Weybridge}}, while an [[electric multiple unit]] waits in the [[bay platform]] to form a service via {{rws|Chertsey}}.|group=note}}]] 
The [[London and Southampton Railway|London and Southampton Railway Company]] opened the [[Weybridge railway station|station at Weybridge]] in May 1838.<ref>{{harvnb|Mitchell|Smith|1989|loc=Fig. 32}}</ref>{{refn|The London and Southampton Railway Company had not intended to construct a station at Weybridge, but was required by the authorizing Act of Parliament to build two road bridges over the line near the town. Following a negotiation with the Weybridge Vestry, the company agreed to open a station on a trial basis for 12 months in exchange for being allowed to build only one bridge.<ref>{{harvnb|Douglas Smith|2003|p=ii}}</ref>|group=note}} Initially the station had two platforms and was in a deep [[cut (earthworks)|cutting]] between St George's Hill and Weybridge Heath. The typical journey time to London was around an hour and, by 1841, a [[Travelling Post Office|mail train]] was stopping daily. A junction was created to the west of the station in 1848, when the line to {{rws|Chertsey}} was constructed.<ref name=White_1999_pp40-43/>{{refn|The line was extended from Chertsey to {{rws|Virginia Water}} in 1866.<ref name=White_1999_pp40-43/>|group=note}}{{refn|A triangle of railway lines to the west of Weybridge station was created when Byfleet Junction was constructed in 1885.<ref>{{harvnb|Mitchell|Smith|1986|loc=Fig. 108}}</ref>|group=note}} Additional tracks on the main line through the station were added in 1885<ref>{{harvnb|Mitchell|Smith|1986|loc=Fig. XXIX}}</ref> and 1902.<ref>{{harvnb|Mitchell|Smith|1986|loc=Fig. 103}}</ref> The lines through the station were [[railway electrification in Great Britain|electrified]] in 1907,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title= Electric Trains to Weybridge |date= 23 December 1936 |page= 2 |issue= 47565 }}</ref> although [[steam locomotives of British Railways|steam locomotives]] continued to haul long-distance [[express train|express services]] through Weybridge until 1967.<ref name=White_1999_pp40-43/> The [[goods station|goods yard]] was closed in 1964 and [[signalling control|signal boxes]] in the local area were shut in March 1970, when control of the lines was transferred to Surbiton Panel Box.<ref>{{harvnb|Mitchell|Smith|1986|loc=Fig. 106}}</ref> An arson attack in January 1987, resulted in the destruction of the 1904 station building.<ref>{{harvnb|Douglas Smith|2003|p=53}}</ref>

A manual telephone exchange opened in Weybridge in 1912 and was replaced in 1954 by an automated facility in Heath Road, which had sufficient capacity for 2500 lines.<ref>{{harvnb|Barker|Barker|1993|p=13}}</ref>

===Residential development===
Although Weybridge was still only a small village in the early 18th century, a high proportion of the residents were members of the aristocracy. In 1724, the [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] noted that it was increasingly becoming a place for "gentile retirement" and recorded eighteen upper-class families living in the area.<ref>{{harvnb|Greenwood|1983|p=15}}</ref> The settlement was dominated by two estates: Portmore Park, to the north west of the centre, was the seat of the Colyear family, the [[Earl of Portmore|Earls of Portmore]]; Oatlands Park, to the east, had been built on the former [[deer park (England)|deer park]] belonging to Oatlands Palace and was purchased by [[Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany|Prince Frederick, the Duke of York and Albany]], in 1790.

[[File:10-16 Hanger Hill, Weybridge - geograph.org.uk - 903285.jpg|thumb|right|[[Georgian architecture|Georgian-style]] houses at the north end of Hanger Hill, constructed in the late 1990s{{refn|The houses were designed by the architect Robert Adam (b. 1948) and were built on the site of the former Stag and Hounds [[pub|public house]], facing the Cricket Green.<ref name=John_2010_p168-169>{{harvnb|John|2010|pp=168–169}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.robertadamarchitect.com/row-houses-Weybridge |title= A row of houses in Weybridge |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 9 September 2021 |publisher= Robert Adam Architectural Consultancy Ltd |access-date= 19 September 2021}}</ref>|group=note}}]]
Towards the end of the 18th century, Weybridge was beginning to expand beyond its medieval footprint. In 1800, [[Weybridge Heath]], an area of  [[common land]] to the south east of the village centre, was [[enclosure|enclosed]]. The [[Byfleet and Weybridge Inclosures Act 1800]] ([[39 & 40 Geo. 3]]. c. lxxxvii) enabled the Duke of York to purchase almost the whole of St George's Hill and to add it to the Oatlands Estate. Four years later, Hanger Hill, one of the roads running across the heath, was laid out and plots alongside it were sold for [[housebuilding]].<ref name=Greenwood_1983_pp31-33>{{harvnb|Greenwood|1983|pp=31–33}}</ref>

The Duke of York sold Oatlands Park in 1824, but the new owner, [[Edward Hughes Ball Hughes]], was forced to lease the house and the surrounding {{convert|900|acre|ha|abbr=on}} to [[Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere]], three years later.<ref name=White_1999_pp25-26>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=25–26}}</ref> The remainder of the Oatlands estate was sold in stages between 1828 and 1846. Housebuilding began almost as soon as the land was released, stimulated in part by the opening of Weybridge railway station in 1838. The majority of the houses in Oatlands village were completed by 1859.<ref name=Greenwood_1983_pp60-61>{{harvnb|Greenwood|1983|pp=60–61}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|W&WLHS|1983|pp=5–6}}</ref> Oatlands Park House was sold to the developer [[Walter George Tarrant|W. G. Tarrant]] in 1909.<ref name=Greenwood_1983_pp60-61/>

[[File:Portmore Park gate piers, Weybridge, Surrey.jpg|thumb|Entrance gateway to the former Portmore Park estate]]
The west side of Weybridge High Street was developed when the Portmore Park estate was broken up in 1880s.<ref>{{harvnb|Greenwood|1983|p=29}}</ref> The estate, approximately covering the area between the High Street and the River Wey, had been established by [[Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk]] in the 1670s. It was purchased by the Locke King family in 1861, who sold the land for residential development in the final decades of the 19th century.<ref>{{harvnb|Greenwood|1983|pp=55–57}}</ref>

St George's Hill was developed by W. G. Tarrant, who bought {{convert|936|acre|ha|abbr=on}} of land from the Edgerton family in 1911. A year later he began the construction of the Tennis and Golf Clubs and published a series of promotions in the ''Surrey Herald'' to advertise the houses that he intended to build.<ref name=White_1999_pp51-52>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=51–52}}</ref> Strict [[Covenant (law)|covenants]] were imposed on the development and the minimum size of each property was fixed as {{convert|1|acre|ha|abbr=on|spell=in}}. Construction was interrupted by the First World War, but resumed shortly afterwards, continuing until the start of the [[Great Depression in the United Kingdom|Great Depression]] in the late 1920s.<ref>{{harvnb|Swenarton|2001|pp=16–18}}</ref>

The first [[council house|council housing]] in the town was built by the Weybridge UDC between 1923 and 1927, when 160 houses were constructed on the Old Palace Gardens estate. Following the end of the Second World War, the Weybridge and Walton UDC built over 1000 houses in the two towns.<ref>{{harvnb|White|1999|p=92}}</ref>

===Brooklands===
[[File:Brooklands_1907.jpg|thumb|right|Brooklands, 1907]]
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Brooklands, the first purpose-built motor-racing [[race track|circuit]] in the world, opened in 1907.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine= Autocar |volume= 127 |issue= 3731 |last= Sammy |first=Davis |author-link=S. C. H. "Sammy" Davis |title= How Brooklands started |page= 43 |date= 17 August 1967}}</ref> Constructed on farmland to the south of Weybridge, the concrete track was designed by [[Capel Lofft Holden]] and had a total length of {{convert|2.75|mi|km|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/our-history/birth-brooklands |title= Birth of Brooklands |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2020 |publisher= Brooklands Museum |access-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-date= 20 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210820010639/https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/our-history/birth-brooklands |url-status= live}}</ref>{{refn|In the early modern period, Brooklands was a farm. The land was bought by the Duke of York in 1804 and, by 1835, it was in the ownership of [[Peter King, 7th Baron King|Peter King, 7th Baron King of Ockham, Surrey]]. It remained in the hands of the Locke King family and was inherited by [[Hugh F. Locke King]] in 1885.<ref>{{harvnb|Greenwood|1983|pp=9–10}}</ref>|group=note}} The first races for motorcars took place in July 1907 and for [[motorcycle racing|motorcycles]] in February the following year. Both attracted a large number of entrants from across Europe<ref>{{harvnb|Knowles|2005|p=54}}</ref><ref name="Johnson_1981_p9"/><ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2007|p=24}}</ref> and by 1911, the [[British Automobile Racing Club]] had established a programme of regular race meetings.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2007|pp=36–37}}</ref>

Motor racing ceased for the duration of the First World War and did not resume until 1920. The first two [[British Grand Prix|British Grands Prix]] took place at the circuit in [[1926 British Grand Prix|1926]] and [[1927 British Grand Prix|1927]].<ref>{{harvnb|Knowles|2005|p=63}}</ref> The [[JCC 200 Mile race]] also took place at the circuit from 1921 to 1928, and again in 1938. In the early 1930s, Malcolm Campbell developed the [[Campbell-Railton Blue Bird]], his final [[land speed record]] car, at Brooklands. Racing ceased for a second time at the outbreak of the Second World War.<ref>{{harvnb|Knowles|2005|p=65}}</ref>

[[File:Vickers factory.jpg|thumb|right|Vickers factory, 1930]]
Brooklands also played a key role in the development of the British aeronautical industry. In 1907, the aviation pioneer, [[Alliott Verdon Roe|A. V. Roe]], performed the first flight by a British-built aeroplane at the circuit shortly after it opened in 1907.<ref name=Johnson_1981_p9>{{harvnb|Johnson|1981|p=9}}</ref>{{refn|Roe’s flight took place four years after the first powered flight by the [[Wright brothers]] and covered a distance of {{convert|79|ft|m|abbr=on}} at a [[Altitude#In aviation|maximum height]] of {{convert|10|ft|m|abbr=on}} above the ground.<ref name=Johnson_1981_p9/>|group=note}} By 1912, several [[flight training|flying schools]] had been established at Brooklands and the [[Vickers Limited|Vickers]] company began manufacturing aircraft in 1915.<ref>{{harvnb|Barton|1985|loc=Chapter: The Cradle of British Aviation}}</ref> The [[Sopwith Camel]] was among several aircraft developed at Brooklands during the First World War.<ref>{{harvnb|Jackson|2007|p=2}}</ref>

Aircraft manufacture continued during the 1920s and 1930s. Among those working at the Vickers factory was [[Barnes Wallis]], who was involved in designing the [[Vickers Wellesley|Wellesley]] and the  [[Vickers Wellington|Wellington]] [[bomber]]s. The [[Hawker Aircraft|Hawker Aircraft company]] opened a factory at Brooklands in 1935 and began building prototypes of the [[Hawker Hurricane|Hurricane fighter]].<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2007|pp=227–231}}</ref> Aircraft manufacture intensified during the Second World War and new factories, warehouses and hangars were rapidly built, encroaching onto the racing circuit. The track was breached near Byfleet to improve access for deliveries to the site and a large workshop was cut into the concrete at the north end.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2007|pp=244}}</ref> Following the end of hostilities in 1945, the track was considered to be in such poor condition that a resumption of motor racing was ruled impossible.<ref>{{harvnb|Knowles|2005|pp=88–89}}</ref>

In the late 1940s and 1950s, the manufacturers based at Brooklands started to transition towards the production of civilian [[airliners]]. Vickers began producing the VC series of aircraft with the [[Vickers VC.1 Viking|VC1 Viking]] in 1945.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2007|pp=249–250}}</ref>  The [[Vickers VC10|VC10]] was launched in 1964, by which point the company had been nationalised as the [[British Aircraft Corporation]] (BAC).<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2007|pp=254–255}}</ref> Increasingly BAC began to refocus manufacturing at Brooklands to the production of aircraft parts, with final assembly elsewhere.<ref name=Venables_2007_pp256-257>{{harvnb|Venables|2007|pp=256–257}}</ref>{{refn|Thirteen [[BAC One-Eleven]] aircraft, out of a total 235, were manufactured at Brooklands. The last to be completed was flown on 19 December 1970 and no further aircraft were built at the site.<ref name=Venables_2007_pp256-257/>|group=note}} Components of the British-built [[Concorde]]s were manufactured at the site in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1977, BAC merged with [[Hawker-Siddeley]] to form [[British Aerospace]]<ref name=Venables_2007_pp256-257/> and the combined entity began to run down the Brooklands site. Aerospace manufacturing finally ceased in Weybridge in 1988.<ref name=White_1999_pp61-62>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=61–62}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2007|p=262}}</ref>

===Commerce and industry===
Although no mill is mentioned in the Weybridge entries in the Domesday book, watermills appear to have played an important role in the economy of the area since at least the [[early modern period]]. The earliest record of a mill in the town is from 1693, when a paper mill was built at the confluence of the Wey and Thames.<ref name=White_1999_pp55-56>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=55–56}}</ref>

Ironstone was quarried from Weybridge Heath and St George's Hill, although the dates of these workings are uncertain.<ref name=Gardiner_1911/><ref name=Tomalin_1984/> In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, iron was smelted at a mill on Whittet's Ait and there is reference to iron and steel manufacture taking place at two mills in [[Byfleet]] in 1760. The Whittet's Ait mill appears to have been used as a "Brass Wire Mill" in the 1760s and the machinery required for iron smelting had been fitted by 1769.<ref name=White_1999_pp55-56/>

[[File:Whittets Ait.jpg|thumb|Apartments on the site of the former oil-seed mill at Thames Lock<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/949041 |title= Apartments above Thames Lock |last= Horn |first= Graham |date= 3 September 2008 |publisher= UK Geograph |access-date= 19 September 2021 |archive-date= 23 September 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190923182844/https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/949041 |url-status= live }}</ref>]]
A mill for grinding malt was built on the Wey upstream of Thames Lock in around 1819, but had fallen into disrepair by 1830. In 1842 a new mill for extracting [[vegetable oil]] from seeds was built on the same site<ref name=White_1999_pp55-56/> and the Whittet's Ait mill was also being used for the same purpose by the 1930s. In the 1970s, Whittet's Ait was the site of a solvent refinery.<ref>{{harvnb|Crocker|1999|p=51}}</ref>

For much of the 20th century, Weybridge was a centre for the [[Aerospace manufacturer|aerospace industry]]. The Lang Propeller Works was established on Whittet's Ait in 1913<ref name=White_1999_pp61-62/><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk/story/lang-propeller-ltd-of-weybridge/ |title= Lang Propeller Ltd of Weybridge|last= Page |first= Michael |date= 7 November 2016 |publisher= Surrey in the Great War |access-date= 16 October 2021 }}</ref> and, in 1915, the Vickers company took over the [[Itala (company)|Itala]] motor works at Brooklands. The circuit was also the base for several other aircraft manufacturers including [[Avro]], [[Sopwith Aviation Company|Sopwith]] and [[Blériot Aéronautique|Blériot]].<ref>{{harvnb|Crocker|1999|pp=67–68}}</ref>

As of 2021, the European headquarters of [[Sony]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://campaign.odw.sony-europe.com/dynamic/legal/companyinfo/companyInformation.jsp?country=gb&language=en |title= Company Information |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= Sony Europe B.V. |access-date= 6 September 2021 |archive-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210903201308/https://campaign.odw.sony-europe.com/dynamic/legal/companyinfo/companyInformation.jsp?country=gb&language=en |url-status= live }}</ref> and the UK headquarters of [[Procter & Gamble]] are at Brooklands.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/its-really-inside-procter-gamble/861684 |title= What it's really like inside Procter & Gamble |last= Wilkerson |first= Becky |date= 12 November 2008 |publisher= Campaign |access-date= 6 September 2021 |archive-date= 6 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210906195854/https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/its-really-inside-procter-gamble/861684 |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Weybridge in the world wars===
At the start of the First World War, Weybridge became a training base for the 244 Motorised Transport Company, an army unit of mechanics and drivers operating as part of the 19th [[ammunition column|Divisional Supply Column]]. The company served throughout the war in the [[Gallipoli campaign|Gallipoli]] and [[Balkans theatre|Balkans campaigns]].<ref name=White_1999_pp119-122>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=119–122}}</ref> There were two military hospitals in Oatlands. Barnham Lodge opened as a 35-bed hospital in 1915 and, by 1917, a small operating theatre was in use and the facility was being run by the [[British Red Cross]]. Oatlands Park Hotel was requisitioned in 1916 as a hospital for the [[New Zealand Expeditionary Force]] and was primarily used to treat "medical & tuberculosis cases and limbless men".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.oatlands-heritage.org/index.php/did-you-know/little-known-facts/the-hospitals |title= The three Oatlands Hospitals |author=<!--Not stated--> |year= 2012 |publisher= Oalands Heritage Group |access-date= 16 September 2021}}</ref>

Ethel Locke King, the chair of the [[Chertsey]] branch of the Red Cross, was instrumental in establishing 15 hospitals in the local area during the First World War.<ref name=Brooklands_ELK>{{cite web |url= https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/museum-from-home/brooklands-women-ethel-locke-king |title= Brooklands Women Ethel Locke King |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2020 |publisher= Brooklands |access-date= 6 September 2021 |archive-date= 6 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210906195218/https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/museum-from-home/brooklands-women-ethel-locke-king |url-status= live }}</ref> She also organised a rest station for troops at Weybridge railway station.<ref name=White_1999_pp119-122/> In January 1918, Locke King became a Dame Commander of the British Empire.<ref name=Brooklands_ELK/>

The presence of the Vickers aircraft factory made Weybridge an obvious target for enemy bombing during the Second World War.<ref name=White_1999_pp124-126>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=124–126}}</ref> The defence of the town was coordinated by the 3rd Surrey Battalion of the Home Guard<ref>{{harvnb|Crook|2000|p=25}}</ref> and five platoons of the C company were stationed at Brooklands.<ref>{{harvnb|Crook|2000|p=60}}</ref> The local civil defence headquarters were established at the UDC offices in Aberdeen House and the council built a large [[air raid shelter]] at the Churchfields Recreation Ground. Serious bombing began in the local area in August 1940 and by December of that year 97 residents had died and 1300 houses had been damaged.<ref name=White_1999_pp124-126/>

A devastating air raid took place on the Vickers plant in September 1940, when 83 people were killed.<ref>{{cite news |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 2 July 2013 |orig-date= 3 September 2004 |title= The day the Luftwaffe bombed Vickers |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/day-luftwaffe-bombed-vickers-4849006 |work= Surrey Live |access-date= 6 September 2021 |archive-date= 6 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210906195226/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/day-luftwaffe-bombed-vickers-4849006 |url-status= live }}</ref> A {{convert|500|lb|kg|abbr=on}} bomb landed on the floor of the factory, but failed to explode. Five men of the [[Canadian Military Engineers|Royal Canadian Engineers]] successfully removed the bomb from the building before it exploded. [[John Patton (GC)|Lieutenant John Patton]] was subsequently awarded the [[George Cross]] for his role in the incident.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history-from-police-archives/RB1/Pt2/pt2Vickers.html |title= Attack on Vickers Armstrong aircraft factory 1940 |last= Bartlett |first= Robert |year= 2010 |publisher= Open University |access-date= 6 September 2021 |archive-date= 21 February 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200221234443/http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history-from-police-archives/RB1/Pt2/pt2Vickers.html |url-status= live}}</ref> Later in the war, 19 [[V-1 flying bomb]]s landed in the Weybridge and Walton area.<ref name=White_1999_pp124-126/>

==National and local government==
===UK parliament===
The town is in the parliamentary constituency of [[Runnymede and Weybridge (UK Parliament constituency)|Runnymede and Weybridge]] and has been represented [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|at Westminster]] since May 2019 by [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Ben Spencer (politician)|Ben Spencer]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3710/overview |title= Runnymede and Weybridge |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= UK Parliament |access-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-date= 15 May 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210515175014/https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3710/overview |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 11 December 2019 |title= Runnymede & Weybridge parliamentary constituency |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000907 |work= BBC News |location= London |access-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-date= 24 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210824172459/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000907 |url-status= live }}</ref> Between 1997 and 2019, the constituency was represented by [[Philip Hammond]], who was elevated to the House of Lords as Lord Hammond of Runnymede in 2020.<ref name=WW_Hammond>{{Who's Who | id= U18830 | doi= 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U18830 | title=Hammond of Runnymede}}</ref>{{refn|Hammond served as [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] from 2016 to 2019 under Prime Minister [[Theresa May]].<ref name=WW_Hammond/>|group=note}}

===County council===
Councillors are elected to [[Surrey County Council]] every four years. The majority of the town is in the "Weybridge" electoral division, but areas to the east of the centre are in the "Walton South and Oatlands" and "Hersham" electoral divisions.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://mycouncil.surreycc.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=TABLE&PIC=1 |title= Your Councillors by Division |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 1 August 2021 |publisher= Surrey County Council |access-date= 1 August 2021 |archive-date= 1 June 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210601211730/https://mycouncil.surreycc.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?VW=TABLE&PIC=1&FN=WARD |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name= OS_Elections>{{cite web |url= https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |title= Election Maps |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2015 |publisher= Ordnance Survey |access-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-date= 20 February 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160220103943/https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Borough council===
Weybridge is divided between three wards, each of which elect three councillors to [[Borough of Elmbridge|Elmbridge Borough Council]]. The three wards are "Oatlands and Burwood Park", "Weybridge Riverside" and "Weybridge St George's Hill".<ref name= OS_Elections/><ref>{{cite web |url= http://mygov.elmbridge.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0 |title= Ward Map |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 3 September 2021 |publisher= Elmbridge Borough Council |access-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-date= 20 September 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200920180953/http://mygov.elmbridge.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0 |url-status= live }}</ref>

Between 1966 and 2009, the Borough of Elmbridge was [[Sister cities|twinned]] with [[Rueil-Malmaison]] in northern France.<ref>{{cite news |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 2 July 2013 |orig-date= 27 April 2009 |title= Twinning guild disbands as French cool the entente |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/spelthorne-mauritius-special-stories-surreys-17538197 |work= Surrey Live |access-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-date= 28 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210128235244/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/spelthorne-mauritius-special-stories-surreys-17538197 |url-status= live }}</ref>

==Demography and housing==
{| class="wikitable"
|- 
|+ '''2011 Census Key Statistics'''<ref name=ons/><ref name=NOMIS/>
|-
!Output area !!Population !!Households !!% Owned outright !!% Owned with a loan!!hectares
|-
|Weybridge North  ||4,347	||	1,914	||	27	||	37	||  233
|-
|Weybridge South  ||4,600	||	2,088	||	31	||	33	||  202
|-
|St George's Hill  ||6,502	||	2,567	||	33	||	40	||  938
|-
|Regional average || || || 35.1 || 32.5 ||
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- 
|+ '''2011 Census Homes'''<ref name=ons/><ref name=NOMIS/>
|-
!Output area !!Detached  !!Semi-detached!!Terraced!!Flats and apartments!!Caravans/temporary/mobile homes!!Shared between households
|-
|Weybridge North||439	||	435	||	398	||	642	||	0  ||  0
|-
|Weybridge South||499	||	328	||	336	||	908	||	2  ||  15
|-
|St George's Hill||1,152 ||	379	||	340	||	696	||	0  ||  0
|}
Across the [[South East England|South East Region]], 28% of homes were detached houses and 22.6% were apartments.<ref name=NOMIS/>

==Transport==
===Public transport===
[[File:Weybridge_station_building_look_east.JPG|thumb|right|[[Weybridge railway station|Weybridge station]] building]]
Weybridge railway station is to the south of the town centre. It is managed by [[South Western Railway (train operating company)|South Western Railway]], which operates all services. Trains run to {{rws|London Waterloo}} via {{rws|Clapham Junction}} and to {{rws|Woking}}.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.southwesternrailway.com/travelling-with-us/at-the-station/weybridge |title= Trains to Weybridge Station |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= South Western Railway |access-date= 24 August 2021 |archive-date= 16 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210116020947/https://www.southwesternrailway.com/travelling-with-us/at-the-station/weybridge |url-status= live }}</ref>

Weybridge is linked by bus to surrounding towns and villages in north Surrey and south west London. Operators serving the town include [[Arriva UK Bus|Arriva]], [[Diamond South East|Diamond Bus]], the East Surrey Rural Transport Partnership and Falcon Buses.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads-and-transport/buses-and-other-transport/bus-timetables/staines-chertsey-and-walton |title= Chertsey, Staines and Walton bus timetables |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 19 August 2021 |publisher= Surrey County Council |access-date= 24 August 2021 |archive-date= 7 March 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210307063512/https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads-and-transport/buses-and-other-transport/bus-timetables/staines-chertsey-and-walton |url-status= live }}</ref>

===River navigations===
The non-tidal section of the River Thames is navigable between [[Lechlade]] in [[Gloucestershire]] and [[Teddington Lock]]. The [[navigation authority]] is the [[Environment Agency]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/289796/LIT_6689_3e9c5e.pdf |title= Cruising Guide to the River Thames and Connecting Waterways |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2013 |publisher= Environment Agency |access-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-date= 24 July 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190724175203/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/289796/LIT_6689_3e9c5e.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> The River Wey is navigable from Weybridge to [[Godalming]] and the navigation authority is the [[National Trust]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/river-wey-and-godalming-navigations-and-dapdune-wharf/documents/download-our-guidance-for-boat-users.pdf |title= Information for boat users: River Wey Navigations |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2014 |publisher= National Trust |access-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210903092058/https://nt.global.ssl.fastly.net/river-wey-and-godalming-navigations-and-dapdune-wharf/documents/download-our-guidance-for-boat-users.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref>

===National cycle route===
[[National Cycle Route 4]], which links London to [[Fishguard]], passes through Weybridge.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads-and-transport/cycling-and-walking/cycle-network |title= Cycle Network |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 28 April 2021 |publisher= Surrey County Council |access-date= 24 August 2021 |archive-date= 26 June 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210626120412/https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads-and-transport/cycling-and-walking/cycle-network |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Long-distance footpaths===
The [[Thames Path]] runs along the south bank of the River Thames, to the north of the town centre.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/short-routes/thames-path-weybridge-hampton-court/ |title= Thames Path – Weybridge to Hampton Court |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= National Trails |access-date= 24 August 2021 |archive-date= 25 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210825070345/https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/short-routes/thames-path-weybridge-hampton-court/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

==Public services==
===Utilities===
Weybridge received its first drinking water supply in 1869, when the West Surrey Water Company was formed. The water was [[water extraction|abstracted]] from the Thames at Walton, where it was filtered and then pumped to a storage reservoir on St George's Hill. In 1960, the company became part of the Woking and District Water Company.<ref name=White_1999_pp88-94>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=88–94}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Tarplee |first1= Peter |year= 2007 |title= Some public utilities in Surrey: Water supply |url= https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/Surrey%20History%207-4.pdf |journal= Surrey History |volume= VII |issue= 4 |pages= 219–225 |access-date= 10 January 2021 |archive-date= 5 February 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210205224313/https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/Surrey%20History%207-4.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> Today, [[Affinity Water]] is responsible for supplying the town with drinking water.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.affinitywater.co.uk/my-water/our-supply-area |title= Our supply area |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 28 June 2021 |publisher= Affinity Water |access-date= 22 August 2021 |archive-date= 15 April 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210415135240/https://www.affinitywater.co.uk/my-water/our-supply-area |url-status= live }}</ref>

The first [[sewage treatment|wastewater treatment works]] in the town was built at Brooklands Farm in 1895. The works were principally a series of sewage lagoons, but were upgraded in 1939 to [[sand filter|filter beds]], which were considered less conspicuous to enemy aircraft. The present works, in the triangle formed by the railway lines to the west of Weybridge station, were opened in 1973.<ref name=Tarplee_1998_pp3-5>{{harvnb|Tarplee|1998|pp=3–5}}</ref> Treated water is discharged into the River Wey.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.elmbridge.gov.uk%2F_resources%2Fassets%2Fattachment%2Ffull%2F0%2F7784.pdf  |title= Elmbridge Outline Water Cycle Study |last1= Booth |first1= Hannah |last2= Bakopoulou |first2= Christina |last3= Waite |first3= Sarah |date= 8 October 2019 |publisher= Elmbridge Borough Council |access-date= 25 August 2021 }}</ref>

The Walton upon Thames and Weybridge Gas Company was incorporated in 1869.<ref name=Tarplee_1998_pp3-5/> It was taken over by the Wandsworth Gas Company in Oct 1936.<ref>{{cite news |date= 21 August 1936 |title= Wandsworth Gas |issue= 14826 |page= 6 |work= Financial Times |location= London }}</ref>

[[File:Former Weybridge Power Station, Surrey 2.jpg|thumb|The former power station in Church Walk<ref name=Tarplee_Gas_Electricity>{{cite journal |last1= Tarplee |first1= Peter |year= 2007 |title= Some public utilities in Surrey: Electricity and gas |url= https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/Surrey%20History%207-5.pdf |journal= Surrey History |volume=7 |issue= 5 |pages= 262–272 |access-date= 10 January 2021 |archive-date= 5 February 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210205224313/https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/Surrey%20History%207-5.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref>]]
In 1890, Weybridge became the first town in Britain to have electric [[street light]]ing using [[incandescent light bulb|incandescent filament bulbs]].<ref name=Tarplee_Gas_Electricity/> The [[power station]] in Church Walk was capable of [[Electricity generation|generating]] 70&nbsp;kW and operated for six years before its closure in 1896. In 1902, a new station was opened in Thames Street with an initial [[nameplate capacity|installed capacity]] of 180&nbsp;kW, which had risen to 700&nbsp;kW by the time of its closure 20 years later. From 1922, electricity was supplied to the town by the Twickenham and Teddington Electricity Supply Company.<ref name=Tarplee_1998_pp3-5/><ref name=Tarplee_Gas_Electricity/>

===Emergency services===
Weybridge Fire Brigade was formed 1874 and was initially equipped with a horse-drawn, manual engine with leather hoses.<ref>{{harvnb|Lansdell|1970|pp=5–6}}</ref> In 1881 the brigade moved to new building in Balfour Road<ref>{{harvnb|Lansdell|1970|p=7}}</ref> and a steam-driven fire engine was purchased in 1902.<ref>{{harvnb|Lansdell|1970|pp=18–19}}</ref> In 1921, the Weybridge brigade was made responsible for attending fires in [[Cobham, Surrey|Cobham]].<ref>{{harvnb|Lansdell|1970|p=53}}</ref> The merger of Weybridge and Walton UDCs in 1933, resulted in the fire brigades of the two towns being combined into one single unit.<ref>{{harvnb|Lansdell|1970|pp=60–62}}</ref> Weybridge Police Station opened 1908 and closed in 1968.<ref>{{harvnb|Middleton-Stewart|2001|p=34}}</ref>

In 2021, the [[fire authority]] for Weybridge is Surrey County Council and the [[fire services in the United Kingdom|statutory fire service]] is [[Surrey Fire and Rescue Service]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/people-and-community/fire-and-rescue/about/fire-stations |title= Our Fire Stations |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= Surrey County Council |access-date= 6 June 2021 |archive-date= 7 April 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210407142930/https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/people-and-community/fire-and-rescue/about/fire-stations |url-status= live }}</ref> Ambulance services are run by the [[South East Coast Ambulance Service]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.secamb.nhs.uk/our-locations/ |title= Our Locations |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= South East Coast Ambulance Service |access-date= 9 January 2021 |archive-date= 10 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201110224056/https://www.secamb.nhs.uk/our-locations/ |url-status= live }}</ref> The local police force is [[Surrey Police]] and the nearest [[police station]] to the town is at [[Esher]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.surrey.police.uk/area/your-area/surrey/elmbridge/weybridge/about-us/top-reported-crimes-in-this-area |title= Weybridge |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= Surrey Police |access-date= 28 August 2021 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Healthcare===
Weybridge Cottage Hospital was opened in 1889 in Balfour Road on land belonging to [[Ethel Locke King]].<ref>{{harvnb|Bradley|1979|p=1}}</ref> It was replaced in 1928 by a new facility on the site of Vigo House in Church Street.<ref name=Bradley_pp3-5>{{harvnb|Bradley|1979|pp=3–5}}</ref> The hospital became part of the [[National Health Service]] in 1948 and in the early 1960s, an additional [[wing (building)|wing]] was constructed. In 1999, a new hospital was opened adjacent to the old, which was subsequently demolished.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/weybridge.html |title= Weybridge Hospital |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 2 November 2017 |publisher= Lost Hospitals of London |access-date= 24 August 2021 |archive-date= 14 January 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200114135444/http://www.ezitis.myzen.co.uk/weybridge.html |url-status= live }}</ref> In July 2017, the building was destroyed by fire, most probably caused by an electrical fault.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-40578016 |title= Weybridge Community Hospital engulfed by fire |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 12 July 2017 |publisher= BBC News |access-date= 24 August 2021 |archive-date= 24 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210824183742/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-40578016 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/most-probably-cause-weybridge-hospital-14777563 |title= 'Most probable' cause of Weybridge hospital fire revealed in NHS report |last= Smurthwaite |first= Tom |date= 13 June 2018 |publisher= Surrey Live |access-date= 24 August 2021 |archive-date= 8 August 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200808065202/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/most-probably-cause-weybridge-hospital-14777563 |url-status= live }}</ref>

The nearest hospital with an [[Emergency department|A&E]] is [[St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey]], {{convert|4.8|km|mi|sigfig=2|abbr=on}} from Weybridge.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/other-services/Hospital/Weybridge/Results/3/-0.459/51.37/7/23514?distance=25 |title= Hospitals near Weybridge |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= National Health Service |access-date= 23 August 2021 |archive-date= 24 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210824193405/https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/other-services/Hospital/Weybridge/results/3/-0.459/51.37/7/23514?distance=25 |url-status= live}}</ref> As of 2021, the town has two GP practices, both of which are housed in the Health Centre on Church Street.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-gp/results/Weybridge?latitude=51.37243680840292&longitude=-0.459147433219628 |title= GPs near Weybridge |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= National Health Service |access-date= 23 August 2021 |archive-date= 24 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210824193456/https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-gp/results/Weybridge?latitude=51.37243680840292&longitude=-0.459147433219628 |url-status= live }}</ref>

==Education==
===Early schools===
The first recorded school in Weybridge was a [[Dame School]] for 12 children, founded {{circa|1650}} in Baker Street.<ref>{{harvnb|White|1999|p=95}}</ref> A charity school for poor children was founded in Weybridge in 1732 by Elizabeth Hopton and was incorporated into a new Parochial School in 1813. A second small parochial school was founded on the Oatlands estate in 1862 and was enlarged in 1874 to accommodate 201 children.<ref name=Le_Fevre_1977>{{cite journal |last1= Le Fevre |first1= M. |year= 1977 |title= Education in Weybridge and Walton-on-Thames 1732-1944 |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_71/surreyac071_233-254_lefevre.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Collections |volume= 71 |pages= 233–254 |doi= 10.5284/1069035 |access-date= 10 August 2021 |archive-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210903092059/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1%2Fdissemination%2Fpdf%2Fvol_71%2Fsurreyac071_233-254_lefevre.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Maintained schools===
[[File:Heathside School, Weybridge, Surrey.jpg|thumb|Heathside School, Brooklands Lane]]
There are several Primary Schools in Weybridge. St Charles Borromeo Catholic Primary School was founded in Heath Road in 1881.<ref name=Le_Fevre_1977/> It educates around 210 pupils aged from 4 to 11.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.stcharlesb.surrey.sch.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=746&type=pdf |title= Admissions Policy |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 27 November 2019 |publisher= St Charles Borromeo Primary School |access-date= 2 September 2021 |archive-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210903092059/https://www.stcharlesb.surrey.sch.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=746&type=pdf |url-status= live }}</ref>  Cleves School, in Oatlands Avenue, became an academy in November 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cleves.co.uk/assets/Uploads/Academy-Funding-Agreement.pdf |title= Single Academy Model Cleves School Academy Trust: Funding Agreement |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 6 October 2010 |publisher= Cleves School Academy Trust |access-date= 12 September 2021 |archive-date= 18 November 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161118045138/http://cleves.co.uk/assets/Uploads/Academy-Funding-Agreement.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> St James Church of England Primary School is in Grotto Road.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.stjames-weybridge.surrey.sch.uk/contact-details/ |title= Contact Details |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2020 |publisher= St James C of E Primary School |access-date= 12 September 2021 |archive-date= 12 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210912122557/https://www.stjames-weybridge.surrey.sch.uk/contact-details/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

[[Heathside School]], in Brooklands Lane, is a [[Mixed-sex education|co-educational]] [[secondary school]] for students aged 11 to 18. It opened in 1966.<ref>{{harvnb|White|1999|p=100}}</ref>

===Independent school===
[[File:St George's College Junior School, Weybridge.jpg|thumb|St George's College Junior School, Thames Street]]
[[St George's College, Weybridge|St George's College]] Junior School is a coeducational Catholic school for pupils aged 3 to 11.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.stgeorgesweybridge.com/junior-school/why-st-georges-junior-school |title= Why St George's Junior School? |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= St George's College |access-date= 2 September 2021 |archive-date= 10 April 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210410200124/https://www.stgeorgesweybridge.com/junior-school/why-st-georges-junior-school |url-status= live }}</ref> It moved from the main school campus in Addlestone to Thames Street in 2000.<ref>{{harvnb|Watson|2008|pp=132–134}}</ref> The site, to the north of Weybridge town centre, had previously been occupied by a school for girls, founded in 1898 by the nuns of [[Sisters of the Infant Jesus|Les Dames de St Maur]].<ref name=Le_Fevre_1977/>

===Further education===
[[Brooklands College]] opened in 1951 as the Brooklands Technical College.<ref name=BrookColl>{{cite web |url= https://www.brooklands.ac.uk/about/ |title= About |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 6 July 2021 |publisher= Brooklands College |access-date= 2 September 2021 |archive-date= 26 February 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210226184321/https://www.brooklands.ac.uk/about/ |url-status= live }}</ref> Its Weybridge campus is built around the former Brooklands House, a Grade II-listed building, which was once the home of the Locke-King family.<ref>{{cite news |last= Camden |first= Billy |date= 11 October 2019 |title= Brooklands College may be forced to sell historic building |url= https://feweek.co.uk/brooklands-college-may-be-forced-to-sell-historic-building/ |work= FEWeek |access-date= 19 September 2021 |archive-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210922204032/https://feweek.co.uk/brooklands-college-may-be-forced-to-sell-historic-building/ |url-status= live }}</ref> The mansion was originally constructed in 1860, but was rebuilt by the architect, [[Reginald Blomfield]], in a [[Queen Anne style architecture|Queen Anne style]] in 1891.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1030186|desc=Brooklands Technical College (Brooklands House)|access-date=19 September 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>

Brooklands College merged with [[Spelthorne College]] in [[Ashford, Surrey|Ashford]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 3 July 2013 |orig-date= 22 August 2007 |title= Brooklands and Spelthorne colleges merger is complete |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/brooklands-spelthorne-colleges-merger-complete-4833323 |work= Surrey Live |access-date= 2 September 2021 |archive-date= 1 December 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201201023935/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/brooklands-spelthorne-colleges-merger-complete-4833323 |url-status= live }}</ref> It now operates across two campuses and educates over 1,600 students. [[Higher education]] courses are offered in association with [[Oxford Brookes University|Oxford Brookes]] and [[Kingston University|Kingston Universities]].<ref name=BrookColl/>

==Places of worship==
{{see also|List of places of worship in Elmbridge}}

===Early church===
[[File:Image taken from page 6 of 'F. S.'s Pleasure Excursions. Walton and Weybridge, on the South Western Railway' (10430069346).jpg|thumb|right|Weybridge Parish Church (published 1847)<ref>{{harvnb|Cole|1847|page=4}}</ref>]]
There is no mention of a church at Weybridge in the Domesday Book<ref name=Weybridge_Domesday/> and the first record of a place of worship is in 1175, in which a chapel in the town is listed as a dependent of Chertsey Abbey.<ref name=Kempster_1997_pp4-5>{{harvnb|Kempster|1997|pp=4–5}}</ref> During the [[English Reformation|Reformation]], several valuable items, including [[chalice]]s and a [[paten]] were seized from the Weybridge church by the King's commissioners. The [[baptismal font|font]] was buried under the floor of the building at around the same time, possibly to prevent it being confiscated.<ref name=Kempster_1997_p7>{{harvnb|Kempster|1997|p=7}}</ref>

Major renovations to Weybridge church were carried out in 1722, including the construction of a south aisle.<ref>{{harvnb|Kempster|1997|p=15}}</ref> The congregation increased in size in the first half of the 19th century, as the population of the town expanded. By the middle of the century, it was clear that a larger building was required and so the church was demolished in 1848 and replaced by the present St James'.<ref>{{harvnb|Kempster|1997|pp=32–34}}</ref> A portion of a [[fresco]] from the old church was saved and is held by Elmbridge Museum.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/portion-of-fresco-from-east-wall-of-old-st-james-church-13643/search/venue:elmbridge-museum-3413/page/2 |title= Portion of Fresco from East Wall of Old St James' Church |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= ArtUK |access-date= 26 August 2021 |archive-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210828171313/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/portion-of-fresco-from-east-wall-of-old-st-james-church-13643/search/venue:elmbridge-museum-3413/page/2 |url-status= live }}</ref>

===St James' Church===
[[File:St James's Church, Church Street, Weybridge (NHLE Code 1188363) (June 2015) (5).JPG|thumb|right|upright|St James' Church]]
The [[Church of England|Anglican]] [[parish church]] of St James was built in 1848 to replace the earlier church. It was designed by the architect [[John Loughborough Pearson]] in the [[English Gothic architecture#Early English Gothic|Early English]] [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] style. It is constructed of [[course (architecture)|coursed]] rubble stone with a plain tiled roof.<ref name=NHLE_St_James>{{NHLE|num=1188363|desc=Church of St James, Church Street, Weybridge, Borough of Elmbridge|grade=II*|fewer-links=yes |accessdate=9 November 2020}}</ref> The [[broach spire]] was completed in 1855<ref name=VW_St_James>{{cite web |url= https://victorianweb.org/art/architecture/pearson/10.html |title= Church of St James, Weybridge, Surrey, by John Loughborough Pearson (1817-1897) |last= Banerjee |first= Jacqueline |date= 20 November 2014 |publisher= The Victorian Web |access-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-date= 30 June 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210630103816/https://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/pearson/10.html |url-status= live }}</ref> and the south aisle was added in 1864. The [[chancel]] is decorated in red and gold [[mosaic]]s, containing more than 20 types of [[marble]].<ref name=NHLE_St_James/> In 1875, the church was given a [[ring of bells|ring]] of eight [[church bell|bells]], cast by [[John Taylor & Co|Taylor of Loughborough]]. They were re-hung on a new steel frame in 1989.<ref>{{harvnb|Barker|Barker|1993|p=31}}</ref>

Several monuments were rescued from the medieval church and were reinstalled in St James'. The oldest is a sculpture of three skeletons, dating from around 1450, which appears to commemorate a man and two women.<ref name=Kempster_1997_pp4-5/> There are two brasses dating from the reign of Elizabeth I, which record the members of two prominent local families.<ref name=Kempster_1997_p7/>

===St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church===
[[File:Korean Presbyterian Church (formerly St Charles Borromeo RC Church), Heath Road, Weybridge (NHLE Code 1189164) (June 2015) (5).JPG|thumb|right|upright|The former St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church is now the Korean Presbyterian Church.]]
A Catholic Chapel was built on Weybridge Heath in the 1830s for the private use of the Taylor Family<ref name=NHLE_Borromeo>{{NHLE|num=1189164|desc=Church of St Charles Borromeo with attached presbyteries|grade=II*|access-date=2 September 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> and was dedicated to [[Charles Borromeo|St Charles Borromeo]] in November 1835.<ref name=CPP_Church>{{cite web |url=http://www.cpp.org.uk/new_to_cpp.html |title=Parish History |year=2014 |publisher=Christ the Prince of Peace Church|access-date=10 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190202203215/http://www.cpp.org.uk/new_to_cpp.html |archive-date=2 February 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The chapel is constructed from brick, plastered to resemble Bath Stone and has a central dome with towers to the east and west.<ref name=NHLE_Borromeo/> Following [[French Revolution of 1848|his abdication in 1848]], [[Louis Philippe I|Louis Philippe]], King of France, moved with his family to [[Claremont (country house)|Claremont]], [[Esher]]. He attended [[mass (liturgy)|mass]] at the chapel until his death in 1850. He and ten other members of his family were buried in the crypt, but their bodies were subsequently returned to France for reinterment.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.mmtrust.org.uk/mausolea/view/159/Orleans_Mausoleum |title= Orleans Mausoleum |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2006 |publisher= The Mausolea and Monuments Trust |access-date= 2 September 2021 |archive-date= 6 February 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180206131652/http://www.mmtrust.org.uk/mausolea/view/159/Orleans_Mausoleum |url-status= live }}</ref>

A church adjoining the chapel was designed by the architect, Alfred Edward Purdie, and built in 1880.<ref name=NHLE_Borromeo/> It served as the local Catholic Church until the congregation moved to the newly constructed Christ the Prince of Peace Church in 1989. The church was sold to the World Mission Korean Presbyterian Church in 1993 and a restoration project was awarded funding by [[English Heritage]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/find-things-to-do/exiled-royal-familys-church-restored-4845152 |title= Royal family's church to be restored to former glory |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 2 July 2013 |orig-date= 10 June 2005 |publisher= Surrey Live |access-date= 2 September 2021 |archive-date= 2 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210902162359/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/find-things-to-do/exiled-royal-familys-church-restored-4845152 |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Christ the Prince of Peace Catholic Church===
Christ the Prince of Peace Catholic Church opened in Advent 1989, succeeding St Charles Borromeo and the demolished St Martin de Porres. The benches, statues and the crucifix over the altar were recovered from the old churches and installed in the new church.<ref name=CPP_Church/>

===Weybridge United Reformed Church===
[[File:Weybridge United Reformed Church, Queens Road, Weybridge (NHLE Code 1377472) (June 2015) (3).JPG|thumb|right|upright|Weybridge United Reformed Church]]
The [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|Nonconformist]] community in Weybridge traces its origins to 1855, when [[Congregational church#United Kingdom|Congregational]] services were conducted in a hired cottage in Thames Street for a short period.<ref name=Cleal_p313>{{Harvnb|Cleal|Crippen|1908|p=313}}</ref> Five years later, [[Benjamin Scott]], the [[Chamberlain of London|Chamberlain of the City of London]] began to hold open-air services in the town.<ref name=Cleal_pp311-312>{{Harvnb|Cleal|Crippen|1908|pp=311–312}}</ref>

The foundation stone of [[Weybridge United Reformed Church]] was laid on 4 July 1864 by [[John Remington Mills]].<ref name=Cleal_p313/><ref name=WURC_History>{{cite web |url=http://www.weybridgeurc.org.uk/page8.htm |title=The Story of the Church and "Revelations in Stone" |year=2015 |publisher=Weybridge United Reformed Church |access-date=10 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111162602/http://www.weybridgeurc.org.uk/page8.htm |archive-date=11 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The church, designed in the [[Gothic Revival architecture|mixed style]] by [[John Tarring]],<ref name=NHLE_URC>{{NHLE|num=1377472|desc=United Reform Church|grade=II|access-date=30 August 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> was opened the following year.<ref name=Cleal_p313/> The building is constructed of [[rubble masonry]], dressed with [[ashlar]], and has a square tower with a hexagonal spire.<ref name=NHLE_URC/> Architectural historian [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] described the appearance of the church as "ferocious".<ref>{{harvnb|Nairn|Pevsner|1971|p=517}}</ref>

===St Mary Oatlands===

St Mary Oatlands was founded as a chapel in the Parish of Walton-on-Thames in 1867, but two years later, became a church with its own parish. Extensions to the original structure include the tower, built in 1905, and the Chapel of the Resurrection, built in 1920.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.oatlandschurch.org.uk/about/history-of-the-church/ |title= History of the Church |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 13 February 2020 |publisher= St Mary Oatlands |access-date= 16 September 2021 |archive-date= 18 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210118073656/https://www.oatlandschurch.org.uk/about/history-of-the-church/ |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{NHLE|num=1030180|desc=Church of St Mary|grade=II|access-date=16 September 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>

===Weybridge Methodist Church===
Weybridge Methodist Church was designed by the architect, Josiah Gunton, and the foundation stone was laid in June 1900. The adjacent Hayfield Hall was built in 1937. The church was severely damaged by fire in 1977, but was reopened in 1980.<ref>{{harvnb|White|1999|p=85}}</ref>

===North West Surrey Synagogue===
The first Jewish congregation in Weybridge began meeting in the late 1930s in Finnart House, a school for Jewish boys.<ref name=NWSS_History>{{cite web |url= http://www.nwss.org.uk/about-us/our-history/ |title= Our History |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= North West Surrey Synagogue |access-date= 16 September 2021 |archive-date= 14 April 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210414033827/https://www.nwss.org.uk/about-us/our-history/ |url-status= live }}</ref> [[North West Surrey Synagogue]] was founded there in 1968,<ref name=NWSS_History/><ref name=MJR>{{cite web| url=http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/surrey_nw/index.htm| title=North West Surrey Synagogue| publisher=[[JewishGen#Databases|JCR-UK]]| work=Congregation Data| date=30 September 2020| access-date=27 June 2021| archive-date=16 November 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116184304/https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/surrey_nw/index.htm| url-status=live}}</ref> but moved to new premises in Princes Road in 1981. Four years later, the congregation relocated to its current home, Horvath Close, named in honour of one of the founding members, Imre Horvath.<ref name=NWSS_History/> In 2021, the synagogue is affiliated to the [[Movement for Reform Judaism]].<ref name=MJR/><ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.reformjudaism.org.uk/our-synagogues/ | title= North West Surrey Synagogue | work= Our Synagogues | publisher= [[Movement for Reform Judaism]] | access-date= 27 June 2021 | archive-date= 20 June 2021 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210620163708/https://www.reformjudaism.org.uk/our-synagogues/ | url-status= live }}</ref>

==Culture==
===Art===
[[File:Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) - The Thames at Weybridge - T03872 - Tate.jpg|thumb|right|''[[The Thames at Weybridge]]'' (1805–06) by [[J. M. W. Turner]] (1775–1851)]]
''[[The Thames at Weybridge]]'' painted by [[J. M. W. Turner]] in 1805–6 is held by the [[Tate]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-thames-at-weybridge-t03872 |title= Joseph Mallord William Turner: The Thames at Weybridge c.1805–6 |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= Tate |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 30 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201130120732/https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-thames-at-weybridge-t03872 |url-status= live }}</ref> The Elmbridge Museum collection includes works by Charles Claude Houssard (1884–1958),<ref>{{cite web  |url= https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/weybridge-park-college-13590  |title= Weybridge Park College: Charles Claude Houssard (1884–1958)  |author= <!--Not stated-->  |publisher= ArtUK  |access-date= 19 August 2021  |archive-date= 19 August 2021  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210819210954/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/weybridge-park-college-13590  |url-status= live  }}</ref> Edwin Lock (active 1929–1961),<ref>{{cite web |url= https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-duchess-of-yorks-monument-at-monument-green-weybridge-surrey-13637 |title= The Duchess of York's Monument at Monument Green, Weybridge, Surrey: Edwin Lock (active 1929–1961) |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= ArtUK |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210819210955/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-duchess-of-yorks-monument-at-monument-green-weybridge-surrey-13637 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-entrance-to-springfield-lane-weybridge-surrey-13629 |title= The Entrance to Springfield Lane, Weybridge, Surrey: Edwin Lock (active 1929–1961) |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= ArtUK |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210819210955/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-entrance-to-springfield-lane-weybridge-surrey-13629 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/an-old-chestnut-tree-which-stood-near-the-ship-inn-high-street-weybridge-13638 |title= An Old Chestnut Tree, Which Stood near the 'Ship Inn', High Street, Weybridge: Edwin Lock (active 1929–1961) |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= ArtUK |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210819211015/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/an-old-chestnut-tree-which-stood-near-the-ship-inn-high-street-weybridge-13638 |url-status= live }}</ref> and Nancy Wallis.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/baker-street-weybridge-in-1880s-13592 |title= Baker Street, Weybridge in 1880s (taken from a postcard): Nancy Wallis |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= ArtUK |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210819210956/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/baker-street-weybridge-in-1880s-13592 |url-status= live }}</ref> [[Guildford House|Guildford House Gallery]] holds two riverside views of Weybridge by Winifred Schofield (d. 2000).<ref>{{cite web |url= https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-oil-mills-weybridge-surrey-12517 |title= The Oil Mills, Weybridge, Surrey: Winifred Schofield (d.2000) |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= ArtUK |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210819210956/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-oil-mills-weybridge-surrey-12517 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-oil-mills-thames-lock-12519 |title= The Oil Mills, Thames Lock: Winifred Schofield (d.2000) |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= ArtUK |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 28 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210128062519/https://www.artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-oil-mills-thames-lock-12519 |url-status= live }}</ref> Brooklands Museum holds a number of artworks that reference the area's motor racing and aviation heritage.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://artuk.org/visit/venues/brooklands-museum-3671 |title= Brooklands Museum |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= ArtUK |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 30 July 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160730101647/http://artuk.org/visit/venues/brooklands-museum-3671 |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Literature===
[[File:19 Monument Green, Weybridge (residence of E. M. Forster).jpg|thumb|upright|19 Monument Green, the former residence of E. M. Forster]]
Several authors have lived in Weybridge. The writer [[George Meredith]] moved to the town with his first wife in 1849. Whilst living at Weybridge he wrote [[The Shaving of Shagpat|''The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment'']], his first work of fiction, which was published in 1856.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://people.elmbridgehundred.org.uk/biographies/george-meredith/ |title= George and Mary Ellen Meredith |last1= Grant |first1= Alistair |last2= Tapp |first2= Joanna |year= 2018 |publisher= The Elmbridge Hundred |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210819211022/https://people.elmbridgehundred.org.uk/biographies/george-meredith/ |url-status= live }}</ref> He moved to [[Box Hill, Surrey|Box Hill]] in 1868.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1278478|desc=Flint Cottage|grade=II|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> Following the [[Dreyfus affair]], the French novelist [[Émile Zola]] (1840–1902) was exiled to England from July 1898 to June 1899, during which time he lived at the Oatlands Park Hotel.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://people.elmbridgehundred.org.uk/biographies/emile-zola/ |title= Émile François Zola |last= Grant |first= Alistair |year= 2018 |publisher= The Elmbridge Hundred |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210819210957/https://people.elmbridgehundred.org.uk/biographies/emile-zola/ |url-status= live }}</ref> The novelist [[E. M. Forster]] (1879–1970) lived at 19 Monument Green from 1904 until 1912, during which he wrote all six of his novels.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last1=Beauman |first1=Nicola |title=Forster, Edward Morgan (1879–1970) |date=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33208 |url= http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33208 |access-date= 19 August 2021 |freearticle=y }}</ref> A plaque recording his residence in Weybridge was installed on the outside wall of his former home in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://people.elmbridgehundred.org.uk/biographies/em-forster/ |title= E.M. [Edward Morgan] Forster |last= Knott |first= Rosie |year= 2018 |publisher= The Elmbridge Hundred |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210819211016/https://people.elmbridgehundred.org.uk/biographies/em-forster/ |url-status= live }}</ref> The novelist [[Warwick Deeping]] lived on Brooklands Lane from 1918 until his death in 1950.<ref>{{harvnb|Greenwood|1983|p=22}}</ref>

The town is mentioned in several works of literature. Chapter 12 of [[H. G. Wells]]' novel ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' (1897) is entitled "What I saw of the destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton".<ref>{{harvnb|Wells|1898|p=87}}</ref> During the chapter, an armoured [[Martian]] is disabled by an artillery shell and collapses into the River Thames.<ref>{{harvnb|Wells|1898|pp=100–101}}</ref> In [[John Wyndham]]'s novel ''[[The Kraken Wakes]]'' (1953), the main characters are stopped in their attempt to reach Cornwall on a dinghy through a flooded England in the "[[Staines-upon-Thames|Staines]]-Weybridge area".<ref>{{harvnb|Wyndham|2008|p=185}}</ref> In [[Salman Rushdie]]'s novel ''[[The Satanic Verses]]'' (1988), Weybridge is referred to by one of Saladin Chamcha's interrogators as his place of residence.<ref>{{harvnb|Rushdie|1989|p=164}}</ref>

===Music===
The [[rock music|rock]] band, [[You Me at Six]], was formed in Weybridge in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/you-me-at-six-mn0001982318/biography |title= You Me at Six {{!}} Biography & History |work= AllMusic |last= Birchmeier |first= Jason |access-date= 20 August 2021 |archive-date= 8 May 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140508221713/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/you-me-at-six-mn0001982318/biography |url-status= live }}</ref> Four members of the group attended Brooklands College.<ref>{{cite news |last= Proto |first= Laura |date= 7 February 2014 |title= Album-topping success for Brooklands College students – You Me at Six |url= https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/10994585.album-topping-success-for-brooklands-college-students-you-me-at-six/ |work= Sutton & Croydon Guardian |access-date= 20 August 2021 |archive-date= 20 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210820135158/https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/10994585.album-topping-success-for-brooklands-college-students-you-me-at-six/ |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Smurthwaite |first= Tom |date= 3 November 2015 |title= You Me At Six go back to college to discuss old times |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/you-six-go-back-college-10380561 |work= Surrey Live |access-date= 20 August 2021 |archive-date= 20 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210820135207/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/you-six-go-back-college-10380561 |url-status= live }}</ref> Amateur choirs rehearsing and performing regularly in the town include the Treble Clef Choir for ladies' voices<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.trebleclefchoir.org/about/ |title= About us |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 10 March 2020 |publisher= Treble Clef Choir, Weybridge |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 16 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210116115759/https://www.trebleclefchoir.org/about/ |url-status= live }}</ref> and the Weybridge Male Voice Choir.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.weybridgemvc.org.uk/about-us |title= About us |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= Weybridge Male Voice Choir |access-date= 19 August 2021 |archive-date= 4 March 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210304055710/https://www.weybridgemvc.org.uk/about-us |url-status= live }}</ref>

==Sport and leisure==
===Cricket===
[[File:Weybridge Cricket Pavillion, Surrey.jpg|thumb|Weybridge Cricket Club pavilion]]
Weybridge Cricket Club was formed in 1924, by the merger of two existing clubs, the oldest of which was founded before 1870. Cricket is thought to have been played on Weybridge Green since at least 1814.{{refn|In 1814, the landlord of the Stag and Hounds public house was given permission by the vestry to landscape a former gravel pit to create the Weybridge Cricket Green.<ref name=John_2010_p168-169/>|group=note}} In 1921, the UDC improved the ground by levelling the surface and the surrounding banking.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/weybridgecricketclub/a/club-history-61798.html |title= Club History |last= de Bertodano |first= Ramon |year= 2021 |publisher= Pitchero |access-date= 5 September 2021 |archive-date= 5 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210905195307/https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/weybridgecricketclub/a/club-history-61798.html |url-status= live }}</ref>

Weybridge Vandals Cricket Club traces its origins to two clubs formed in the early 20th century. Brownacres Cricket Club was founded in 1938,<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/weybridgevandalscc/a/history-of-vandals-31750.html |title= History of Vandals: Brownacres CC |last= Roper |first= R.B. |year= 2021 |publisher= Pitchero |access-date= 5 September 2021 |archive-date= 2 April 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160402210827/http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/weybridgevandalscc/a/history-of-vandals-31750.html |url-status= live }}</ref> but changed its name to University Vandalls CC in 1953.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/weybridgevandalscc/a/history-of-vandals-31750.html?page=2 |title= History of Vandals: University Vandalls CC |last= Sage |first= Eric |year= 2021 |publisher= Pitchero |access-date= 5 September 2021 |archive-date= 6 March 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210306145958/https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/weybridgevandalscc/a/history-of-vandals-31750.html?page=2 |url-status= live }}</ref> In 1975, it merged with the Olinda CC, which had been formed in 1924.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/weybridgevandalscc/a/history-of-vandals-31750.html |title= History of Vandals: Olinda Vandals CC |last= Weedon |first= Humphrey |year= 2021 |publisher= Pitchero |access-date= 5 September 2021 |archive-date= 2 April 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160402210827/http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/weybridgevandalscc/a/history-of-vandals-31750.html |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Golf===
[[File:St George's Hill Golf Club, Weybridge, Surrey 19587026000.jpg|thumb|right|St George's Hill Golf Club and Clubhouse]]
St George's Hill Golf Course was designed by the architect [[Harry Colt]] and the first 18 holes opened in 1913.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.stgeorgeshillgolfclub.co.uk/course/colt/ |title= Henry Colt course design |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= June 2020 |publisher= St George's Hill Golf Club |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210904123859/https://www.stgeorgeshillgolfclub.co.uk/course/colt/ |url-status= live }}</ref> The course was constructed on land owned by W. G. Tarrant, who intended the course to complement the surrounding housing development. The original club house was burnt down in March 1920 and was replaced the same year. The future [[Edward VIII]] was president of the club from 1934 to 1935 and his brother the future [[George VI]] was also a member.<ref name=Golf>{{cite web |url= https://www.stgeorgeshillgolfclub.co.uk/club/history/ |title= Our History |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= June 2020 |publisher= St George's Hill Golf Club |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210904114731/https://www.stgeorgeshillgolfclub.co.uk/club/history/ |url-status= live }}</ref> The German Foreign Minister, [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]], visited the club in 1937.<ref name=White_1999_p110-111>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=110–111}}</ref> A second 18-hole course, also designed by Colt, was opened in 1929, but was reduced to nine holes in 1946.<ref name=Golf/>

Silvermere Golf Course was designed by [[Neil Coles]] and [[Brian Huggett]] and opened in 1976. The 18-hole course surrounds Silvermere Lake, where Barnes Wallace tested prototypes of his [[bouncing bomb]]. Both the 17th and 18th holes require golfers to play the ball across the surface of the lake.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.silvermere-golf.co.uk/golf/course/ |title= About the course |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= Silvermere Golf Club |access-date= 7 September 2021 |archive-date= 8 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210908070628/https://www.silvermere-golf.co.uk/golf/course/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Rowing===
[[File:Weybridge Ladies Amateur Rowing Club, River Thames, Surrey.jpg|thumb|Weybridge Ladies Amateur Rowing Club boathouse]]
[[Weybridge Rowing Club]] was founded in 1881 and moved to its current premises, adjacent to Thames Lock, in 1910. Women were first admitted as members in 1910.<ref name=WRC_History>{{cite web |url= https://www.weybridgerowing.club/club-history |title= Club History |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2020 |publisher= Weybridge Rowing Club |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 26 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210126033137/https://www.weybridgerowing.club/club-history |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Burton|2011|pp=1–2}}</ref> [[Weybridge Ladies Amateur Rowing Club]] was founded by [[Amy Gentry]] in 1926.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://weybridgeladies.org.uk/about/History.html |title= WLARC started in 1926 |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2020 |publisher= Weybridge Ladies Amateur Rowing Club |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 4 September 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180904223915/http://weybridgeladies.org.uk/about/History.html |url-status= live }}</ref> Weyfarers Rowing Club for recreational rowers was founded in September 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.weyfarers.org.uk/pages/history2.php |title= About us |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= Weyfarers Rowing Club |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210904091910/https://www.weyfarers.org.uk/pages/history2.php |url-status= live }}</ref>

The Weybridge Community Regatta, organised by Weybridge Rowing Club, takes place on the Desborough Cut each summer.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://weybridgecommunityregatta.co.uk/about-the-event/ |title= About the event |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= Weybridge Community Regatta |access-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-date= 5 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210805143714/https://weybridgecommunityregatta.co.uk/about-the-event/ |url-status= live }}</ref> The club has hosted the Weybridge Silver Sculls head since 1956. The race takes place on a {{convert|3000|m|yd|adj=on|abbr=on}} course on the Thames.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.weybridgerowing.club/post/weybridge-silver-sculls-a-brief-history |title= Weybridge Silver Sculls |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 22 May 2020 |publisher= Weybridge Rowing Club |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 19 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210119080431/https://www.weybridgerowing.club/post/weybridge-silver-sculls-a-brief-history |url-status= live}}</ref> The Weybridge Veterans' Head is held each year in March and includes events for juniors as well as veterans.<ref name=WRC_History/>

===Rugby===
[[File:Weybridge Vandals RFC pitches, Desborough Island, Surrey.jpg|thumb|Weybridge Vandals rugby pitches]]
Weybridge Vandals RFC was founded in 1932 for members of the [[University of London]]. It was initially known as "London University Vandals RFC" and played its home matches at [[Motspur Park]]. A vulture taking off with wings raised was adopted as the club symbol.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/weybridgevandalsrfc/a/history-8690.html |title= Weybridge Vandals RFC: History |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= Pitchero |access-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-date= 22 September 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180922033125/http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/weybridgevandalsrfc/a/history-8690.html |url-status= live }}</ref> The club moved to the premises of a former private zoo on Desborough Island in 1932 and, in 2003, changed its name to Weybridge Vandals RFC to reflect the location of its home ground.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/sport/other-sport/vandals-graduate-university-weybridge-4855620 |title= Vandals graduate from University to Weybridge |author= <!--Not stated--> |orig-date= 2 March 2003 |date= 3 July 2013 |work= Surrey Live |access-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-date= 24 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210124094349/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/sport/other-sport/vandals-graduate-university-weybridge-4855620 |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Shooting===
Weybridge Rifle and Pistol Club was opened in 1901. Initially the range was at Brooklands Farm, but relocated in 1906 to allow for the construction of the racing circuit.<ref name=White_1999_p110-111/> In 2021, the club has a 100-yard outdoor [[shooting range|range]] for [[.22 Long Rifle|.22 calibre rifles]] and a 25-yard outdoor [[air gun]] range.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://weybridgerpc.co.uk |title= About us |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= Weybridge Rifle & Pistol Club |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210904122744/https://weybridgerpc.co.uk/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Tennis===
St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club was opened in 1913. It covers {{convert|16|acres|ha|abbr=on}}<ref name=StG_LTC>{{cite web|url= https://stghltc.co.uk/about/ |title= About |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 16 March 2021 |publisher= St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 23 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210123234334/https://stghltc.co.uk/about/ |url-status= live}}</ref> and has 33 [[tennis court|courts]], of which 13 are grass courts.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://stghltc.co.uk/raquets/tennis-courts-leagues-and-coaching/ |title= Tennis |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 31 August 2021 |publisher= St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 1 March 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210301041913/https://stghltc.co.uk/raquets/tennis-courts-leagues-and-coaching/ |url-status= live }}</ref> It also offers four [[Squash (sport)|squash courts]]<ref name=StG_LTC/> and facilities for [[badminton]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://stghltc.co.uk/raquets/badminton/ |title= Badminton |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 15 July 2021 |publisher= St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 1 March 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210301040547/https://stghltc.co.uk/raquets/badminton/ |url-status= live }}</ref> and [[table tennis]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://stghltc.co.uk/raquets/table-tennis/ |title= Table tennis |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 16 March 2021 |publisher= St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 23 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210123235044/https://stghltc.co.uk/raquets/table-tennis/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

Weybridge Lawn Tennis Club, in Walton Lane, offers five outdoor courts.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/lifestyle/health/tennis-courts-and-clubs-surrey-8081850 |title= Five of the best Tennis courts and clubs in Surrey |last= Crafter |first= Cate |date= 29 June 2021 |publisher= Surrey Life |access-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-date= 7 July 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210707130902/https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/lifestyle/health/tennis-courts-and-clubs-surrey-8081850 |url-status= live }}</ref>

==Tourist attractions==
===Brooklands Museum===
[[File:Brooklands club house, 26 February 2012.jpg|thumb|right|Aero Clubhouse, [[Brooklands Museum]]]]
{{main|Brooklands Museum}}
As aircraft manufacture at Brooklands began to decline in the 1970s, BAC closed the factory buildings on the west side of the runway and the area was redeveloped for light industry, offices and retail units. The corporation also vacated a {{convert|40|acre|ha|abbr=on|adj=on}} site at the northern end of the former finishing straight, 30 acres of which became the Brooklands Museum.<ref name=Venables_2007_pp259-261>{{harvnb|Venables|2007|pp=259–261}}</ref> The museum, which opened in 1991,<ref name=BM_history>{{cite web|url= https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/our-history/history-museum |title= History of the Museum |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2020 |publisher= Brooklands Museum |access-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-date= 30 April 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210430120525/https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/our-history/history-museum |url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author= Lord Montagu of Beaulieu |date= 7 July 1991 |title= The fast track returns |work= The Sunday Telegraph |location= London |issue= 1571 |page= XVII }}</ref> has preserved several historic buildings including the 1911 Ticket Office, the 1932 Aero Clubhouse and a {{convert|100|m|yd|abbr=on|adj=on}} section of track.<ref name=Venables_2007_pp259-261/><ref name=BM_history/> A wide range of vintage aircraft, racing cars and motorcycles is on display,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/museum-highlights |title= Museum Highlights |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2020 |publisher= Brooklands Museum |access-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-date= 30 April 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210430135921/https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/museum-highlights |url-status= live}}</ref> including [[BAC Concorde G-BBDG|Concorde G-BBDG]],<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/concorde/about/our-concorde |title= Our Concorde |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2020 |publisher= Brooklands Museum |access-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210831112835/https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/concorde/about/our-concorde |url-status= live }}</ref> a Wellington Bomber<ref name=BM_Wellington>{{cite web |url= https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/our-collection/aircraft/vickers-wellington-mk1a |title= Vickers Wellington Mk1A |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2020 |publisher= Brooklands Museum |access-date= 13 September 2021 |archive-date= 9 June 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210609144255/https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/our-collection/aircraft/vickers-wellington-mk1a |url-status= live }}</ref>{{refn|The Wellington Bomber on display at Brooklands Museum [[Landing (water transport)|ditched]] in [[Loch Ness]] during a training flight in 1940. It was recovered in 1985 and was subsequently restored at Brooklands.<ref name=BM_Wellington/> |group=note}} and a 1927 [[Delage]] 15-S8 Grand Prix racing car.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/our-collection/cars/gp-delage-Prix |title= Delage 15-S8 Grand Prix |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2020 |publisher= Brooklands Museum |access-date= 13 September 2021 |archive-date= 19 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210119145208/https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/our-collection/cars/gp-delage-Prix |url-status= live }}</ref>

===London Bus Museum===
[[File:London Bus Museum - geograph.org.uk - 3049742.jpg|thumb|right|[[London Bus Museum]]]]
{{Main|London Bus Museum}}
The London Bus Museum traces its origins to the mid-1960s, when the London Bus Preservation Group was formed by a number of private heritage vehicle owners. Eight years later, the group purchased a former factory in [[Cobham, Surrey]], which was converted to a museum, opening in 1974. In 2011, the museum moved to a newly constructed building on the Brooklands Museum site.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.londonbusmuseum.com/about-us/our-history/ |title= Our History |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= London Bus Museum |access-date= 30 August 2021 |archive-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210831115840/https://www.londonbusmuseum.com/about-us/our-history/ |url-status= live }}</ref> Around 30 buses dating from the 1820s to the 1970s are on public display at any one time,<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.londonbusmuseum.com/museum-exhibits/ |title= Museum Exhibits |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= London Bus Museum |access-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210831131354/https://www.londonbusmuseum.com/museum-exhibits/ |url-status= live }}</ref> around two thirds of which are owned by the London Bus Preservation Trust and the remainder by private individuals. Entry to the museum is via a combined ticket with the Brooklands Museum.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/london-bus-museum |title= London Bus Museum |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2020 |publisher= Brooklands Museum |access-date= 30 August 2021 |archive-date= 22 June 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210622055908/https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/london-bus-museum |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Mercedes-Benz World===
[[File:Mercedes-Benz World, Weybridge, Surrey - Flickr - Supermac1961 (1).jpg|thumb|right|[[Mercedes-Benz World]]]]
{{Main|Mercedes-Benz World}}
The German car manufacturer, [[Daimler AG]], purchased the former Brooklands [[runway]] and the adjacent strips of land in 2002. The northern half of the site was redeveloped into a tourist attraction, Mercedes-Benz World, which was opened in October 2006.<ref name=Venables_2007_pp262-263>{{harvnb|Venables|2007|pp=262–263}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Mills |first= James |date= 29 October 2006 |title= Welcome to Merc World |issue= 9504 |page=27[S6] |work= The Sunday Times |location= London }}</ref> The southern half was handed to Elmbridge Borough Council and became the Brooklands Community Park. As part of the work to construct the new attraction, the section of the motor racing circuit adjacent to the railway was restored and a new car park and entrance to the Brooklands Museum were provided.<ref name=Venables_2007_pp262-263/> Among the exhibits at Mercedes-Benz World are a number of historic [[auto racing|racing]] and [[car|road cars]] and the attraction offers [[driving simulator|racing simulators]] and driving experiences.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.mercedes-benzworld.co.uk/visit/attractions-to-do/ |title= Attractions to do |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= Mercedes-Benz World |access-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-date= 31 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210831112835/https://www.mercedes-benzworld.co.uk/visit/attractions-to-do/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

==Notable buildings and landmarks==
===Memorial to Gerrard Winstanley===
[[File:Gerrard Winstanley memorial - geograph 6433963.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Memorial to [[Gerrard Winstanley]]<ref name=Digger_Trail>{{cite web |url= https://www.diggerstrail.org.uk/assets/documents/surrey-diggers-trail-leaflet.pdf |title= Surrey Diggers Trail |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 3 March 2005 |publisher= Elmbridge Museum |access-date= 14 September 2021 |archive-date= 16 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210916202412/https://www.diggerstrail.org.uk/assets/documents/surrey-diggers-trail-leaflet.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name=Geograph_Winstanley>{{cite web |url= https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6433963 |title= Gerrard Winstanley Memorial Stone |last= Davis |first= Sean |date= 20 February 2007 |publisher= Geograph UK |access-date= 14 September 2021 |archive-date= 14 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210914184357/https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6433963 |url-status= live }}</ref>]]
The memorial to [[Gerrard Winstanley]], located close to the railway station, was unveiled in December 2000.<ref name=Digger_Trail/><ref name=Geograph_Winstanley/> It commemorates the radical leader of the [[Diggers|Diggers or True Levellers]], a group of 17th-century religious dissidents, who set up an encampment on St George's Hill. The group began to cultivate the common land on the hill in April 1649, encouraging others to join them and declaring their intention to reclaim enclosed land.<ref name=Winstanley_ODNB>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/29755|title=Winstanley, Gerrard|first1=J. C.|last1=Davis|first2=J. D.|last2=Alsop}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Greenwood|1983|pp=18–20}}</ref> The group published several pamphlets and their philosophy has been compared to [[agrarian socialism]]<ref>{{harvnb|Campbell|2009|p=129}}</ref> and modern [[anarchism]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nicolas-walter-anarchism-and-religion |title= Anarchism and Religion |last= Walter |first= Nicolas |author-link= Nicolas Walter |year= 1991 |publisher= The Anarchist Library |access-date= 14 September 2021 |archive-date= 18 March 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120318013559/http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Nicolas_Walter__Anarchism_and_Religion.html |url-status= live }}</ref> Following harassment from local landowners and threats of legal action, the Diggers relocated to Little Heath, Cobham that August, but had been driven from the land by April 1650.<ref name=Winstanley_ODNB/>

===Oatlands Park Hotel===
[[File:Oatlands House, ornamental gates, Weybridge, Surrey.jpg|thumb|right|Entrance gates to Oatlands Park Hotel]]
Following the demolition of Oatlands Palace in the mid-17th century, the surrounding hunting park passed through a series of owners until it was inherited by [[Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln]] in 1716. Clinton remodelled the estate, creating a new garden in 1725 and constructing a new house to the east of the town centre in 1725. The property was purchased by [[Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany]] in around 1790.<ref>{{harvnb|White|1999|p=21}}</ref> Four years later, much of the house was destroyed by fire and a new mansion, Oatlands Park, was designed by [[Henry Holland (architect)|Henry Holland]] on the same site. It was built in the [[Italianate architecture|Italianate style]] using yellow [[London stock brick]]s,<ref name=NHLE_Oatlands>{{ NHLE |num= 1293501 |desc=Oatlands Park Hotel|grade=II|fewer-links=yes|access-date=29 August 2021}}</ref> but the original entrance gateway, designed in the mid-18th century by [[William Kent]], was retained.<ref name=NHLE_Oatlands_gates>{{ NHLE |num= 1377452 |desc=Gateway to Oaklands Park|grade=II*|fewer-links=yes|access-date=29 August 2021}}</ref>{{refn|The entrance gates were moved to their current site on Oatlands Drive in around 1858. As part of the relocation process, the [[Portland stone]] ashlar plinths were made taller and wrought iron scrollwork was added to the side gates in order to make the entrance appear grander.<ref name=NHLE_Oatlands_gates/> The red brick lodges are thought to have been built when the gateway was resited.<ref>{{ NHLE |num= 1472952 |desc=Gate lodges to Oatlands Park|grade=II|fewer-links=yes|access-date=15 September 2021}}</ref>|group=note}}

The Duke of York sold Oatlands Park to [[Edward Hughes Ball Hughes]] in 1824, following the death of [[Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia|his wife]] four years earlier. Hughes was responsible for remodelling the house in 1827, but financial problems forced him to lease the estate to [[William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton]] a year later. The land was sold in 1846<ref name=White_1999_pp25-26/> and, in 1856, Oatlands Park became a hotel, when the west wing was added by the architect, [[Thomas Henry Wyatt]].<ref name=NHLE_Oatlands/>

The {{convert|10|ha|acre|abbr=on|adj=on}} Broad Water, also known as Broadwater Lake, is located between the Oatlands Park Hotel and the River Thames.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/oatlands-weybridge |title= Oatlands, Weybridge |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= Parks and Gardens |access-date= 16 September 2021 |archive-date= 16 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210916202414/https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/oatlands-weybridge |url-status= live}}</ref> It is shown as a [[cruciform]] canal on a 1737 plan of the Oatlands estate by the [[cartographer]], [[John Roque]],<ref name=NHLE_Oatlands_Broadwater>{{NHLE|num=1000119|desc=Oatlands|grade=II|fewer-links=yes|access-date=16 September 2021}}</ref> and is thought to have been enlarged to its current form by 1770.<ref name=Symes_1981>{{cite journal |last= Symes |first= Michael |year= 1981 |title= New Light on Oatlands Park in the Eighteenth Century |journal= Garden History |volume= 9 |issue= 2 |pages= 136–156 |doi= 10.2307/1586786 |jstor= 1586786}}</ref> Today, the {{convert|1.2|km|mi|adj=mid|long|abbr=on}} lake runs in a shallow arc from west to north east<ref name=NHLE_Oatlands_Broadwater/> and is fed by springs close to St George's Junior School.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.templemere.co.uk/?p=1 |title= Broad Water Lake Project Report |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 1 February 2016 |publisher= Templemere |access-date= 16 September 2021 |archive-date= 20 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210120141254/http://www.templemere.co.uk/?p=1 |url-status= live}}</ref> It was constructed as a ''[[trompe-l'œil]]'' and its east end appears to flow under [[Walton Bridge]], which in fact spans the River Thames.<ref name=NHLE_Oatlands_Broadwater/><ref name=Symes_1981/> A new footpath along the northern bank of the lake was opened in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last= Palmer |first= Jim |date= 9 November 2017 |title= All-weather path opens up Elmbridge Countryside |url= https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/15651964.all-weather-path-opens-up-elmbridge-countryside/ |work= Surrey Comet |access-date= 16 September 2021 |archive-date= 16 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210916202415/https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/15651964.all-weather-path-opens-up-elmbridge-countryside/ |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.weybridgesociety.org.uk/community-news/broad-water-path-now-open/ |title= Broad Water Lake path now open |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 25 August 2017 |publisher= Weybridge Society |access-date= 16 September 2021 |archive-date= 16 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210916202416/https://www.weybridgesociety.org.uk/community-news/broad-water-path-now-open/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Ship Hotel===
Parts of the Ship Hotel on Monument Green are thought to date from the 16th century. Its original name, the Ship Inn, may derive from "shippin" meaning a cattle shed. In the mid-18th century, the inn was used for meetings of the [[manorial court]]s and during the [[Napoleonic Wars]], it served as a recruiting centre for the army.<ref name=Mon_Green_CACA>{{cite web |url= http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=1151 |title= Weybridge Monument Green Conservation Area Character Appraisal & Management Proposals |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2006 |publisher= Elmbridge Borough Council |access-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210828171313/http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/_resources/assets/attachment/full/0/1151.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{ NHLE |num= 1030169 |desc=The Ship Hotel|grade=II|fewer-links=yes|access-date=29 August 2021}}</ref>

===War memorial===
[[File:Weybridge War Memorial close up.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Weybridge War Memorial]]
The war memorial, designed by J. Hatchard Smith, was erected in 1923 at the south end of Monument Hill. It consists of a square column, on which a statue of a soldier is standing at ease.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1427261|desc=Weybridge War Memorial|grade=II|fewer-links=yes|access-date=29 August 2021}}</ref> A total of 224 people who died in the First World War, Second World War and Korean War are commemorated.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/23577 |title= Weybridge Memorial Details |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 12 April 2019 |publisher= Imperial War Museum |access-date= 29 August 2021 |archive-date= 29 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210829115216/https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/23577 |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Yool Memorial===
The stone drinking fountain at the junction of Hanger Hill and Princes Road was commissioned from the [[Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association]] in 1896. It commemorates Henry Yool, a local benefactor and former vice-chairman of Surrey County Council. Originally erected on Weybridge Hill, the memorial was moved to its current location in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.railalbum.co.uk/nonrail/weybridge-youll-drinking-fountain.htm |title= The Henry Yool Drinking Water Fountain |last= Martin |first= Greg |year= 2020 |publisher= Rail Album |access-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-date= 4 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210904091911/http://www.railalbum.co.uk/nonrail/weybridge-youll-drinking-fountain.htm |url-status= live }}</ref>

===York Column===
The [[York Column]] on Monument Green originally stood at [[Seven Dials, London|Seven Dials]] in central London. The [[sundial]] pillar was commissioned by [[Thomas Neale]] in the 1690s to form the centrepiece of his housing development near [[Covent Garden]]. The monument was dismantled in 1777 and the stones were purchased by the architect, [[James Paine (architect)|James Paine]], who lived in Addlestone. In 1822 the column was erected on Monument Green in Weybridge as a memorial to the [[Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia|Duchess of York]], who had lived at Oatlands House and who had died two years previously.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.sevendials.com/the-sundial-pillar/the-original-seven-dials-sundial-pillar |title= The original sundial pillar |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= The Seven Dials Trust |access-date= 29 August 2021 |archive-date= 29 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210829115219/https://www.sevendials.com/the-sundial-pillar/the-original-seven-dials-sundial-pillar |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{ NHLE |num= 1030168 |desc=York Column|grade=II|fewer-links=yes|access-date=29 August 2021}}</ref> The badly [[weathering|weathered]] dialstone was not reinstalled on the monument and can be seen adjacent to Weybridge Library.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6432581 |title= The Dial Stone, Weybridge Library |last= Davis |first= Sean |date= 4 April 2020 |publisher= UK Geograph |access-date= 29 August 2021 |archive-date= 29 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210829115215/https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6432581 |url-status= live }}</ref>

==Parks and open spaces==
===Brooklands Community Park===
The {{convert|24|ha|acre|abbr=on|adj=on}} Brooklands Community Park was opened in 2006 on land donated by Daimler AG to Elmbridge Borough Council.<ref name=Venables_2007_pp262-263/><ref name=EBC_BrooklandsCP>{{cite web|url= https://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=895 |title= Brooklands Community Park: Suitable Accessible Natural Greenspace Proposal |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= November 2011 |publisher= Elmbridge Borough Council |access-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-date= 13 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210913173825/https://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/_resources/assets/attachment/full/0/895.pdf |url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.mercedes-benz-media.co.uk/en-gb/releases/459 |title= Mercedes-Benz World provides park for community |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2006 |publisher= [[Mercedes-Benz]] |access-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210828171351/https://www.mercedes-benz-media.co.uk/en-gb/releases/459 |url-status= live }}</ref> The formal recreation areas, which include a children's [[playground]], [[multi-use games area]], [[skatepark]] and an [[mountain biking|off-road cycle course]], total approximately {{convert|2|ha|acre|abbr=on}}. The remainder of the park is naturalised dry-[[acid grassland]], which provides a habitat for plants including [[Potentilla argentea|hoary cinquefoil]] and [[Rhinanthus minor|yellow rattle]], as well as butterfly species such as the [[Lycaena phlaeas|small copper]] and [[common blue]].<ref name=EBC_BrooklandsCP/> Brooklands [[Parkrun]] takes place at the Community Park on Saturday mornings.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.parkrun.org.uk/brooklands/ |title= Brooklands Parkrun |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 22 June 2020 |publisher= Parkrun |access-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-date= 26 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210126031608/https://www.parkrun.org.uk/brooklands/ |url-status= live}}</ref>

===Churchfields recreation ground===
Churchfields recreation ground was opened by Weybridge Council in 1908, on land donated by John Lyle.<ref name=White_1999_p108>{{harvnb|White|1999|p=108}}</ref>{{refn|John Lyle was the son of sugar trader [[Abram Lyle]].<ref name=White_1999_p108/>|group=note}}

===Monument Green===
[[File:York Column, Weybridge - cropped.jpg|thumb|upright|The York Column on Monument Green]]
Monument Green is an area of common land at the north end of the High Street, surrounding the junction between Thames Street and Monument Hill. In the 18th century, it was known as the "Bull Ring" and [[bull-baiting]] is thought to have taken place there. In the early 19th century, the village pump was located on the western side, in front of the Ship Hotel. The York Column was erected in the centre of the green in 1822. Most of the houses in the surrounding area were constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<ref name=Mon_Green_CACA/>

===Weybridge Heath===
{{main article|Weybridge Heath}}
Weybridge Heath, to the south of the town centre, was reserved for the use of local residents under the Inclosure Act 1800.<ref>{{harvnb|Pocket_Guide|1912|pp=22–24}}</ref> Some {{convert|16.6|ha|acre|abbr=on}} are owned by Elmbridge Borough Council.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/woods/elmbridge-commons-weybridge-heath/ |title= Elmbridge Commons: Weybridge Heath |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= Woodland Trust |access-date= 19 September 2021 |archive-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210922204035/https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/woods/elmbridge-commons-weybridge-heath/ |url-status= live}}</ref>

===Whittet's Ait===
Whittet's Ait is an island between the River Wey and River Wey Navigation in the north of Weybridge. It is named after the owner of the former oil seed mill, which was sited next to Thames Lock.<ref>{{harvnb|Archer Stonebanks|1980|p=10}}</ref> Elmbridge Borough Council acquired the publicly accessible open land on the [[ait]] in 2000, to protect it for recreational use.<ref>{{cite news |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 20 October 2000 |title= Council Takes Control Of Land At Whittets Ait |url= https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/118189.council-takes-control-of-land-at-whittets-ait/ |work= Richmond & Twickenham Times |access-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-date= 28 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210828171313/https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/118189.council-takes-control-of-land-at-whittets-ait/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

==Notable residents==
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{{Category see also|People from Weybridge}}
* [[Thomas Hopsonn]] (1643–1717) – [[Vice-admiral (Royal Navy)|Vice-admiral]], moved to Weybridge in 1702. He built Vigo House and is buried in St James' Church.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/13768|last=Davies|first=J. D.|title=Hopson [Hopsonn], Sir Thomas }}</ref><ref name=White_1999_pp31-32>{{harvnb|White|1999|pp=31–32}}</ref>{{refn|Vigo House was named after the 1702 [[Battle of Vigo Bay]], part of the [[War of the Spanish Succession]]. Hopsonn led a successful attack on the French fleet and was [[Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom|knighted]] on his return to Britain.<ref name=White_1999_pp31-32/> Vigo House was demolished in the 1920s to make way for the relocation of Weybridge Hospital.<ref name=Bradley_pp3-5/>|group=note}}
* [[David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore]] ({{circa|1656}}-1730) – army officer and [[Governor of Gibraltar]], lived at Portmore Park<ref>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/6015|last=Henderson|first=T.F.|title=Colyear, David, first earl of Portmore }}</ref>
*[[Fanny Kemble]] (1809–1893) – author, actor and [[abolitionism|anti-slavery]] campaigner, lived at Eastlands, Brooklands Road<ref>{{cite web |url= https://people.elmbridgehundred.org.uk/biographies/fanny-kemble/ |title= Fanny [Frances Anne] Kemble |last= Wright |first= Anne |date=  |publisher= The Elmbridge Hundred |access-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210903184218/https://people.elmbridgehundred.org.uk/biographies/fanny-kemble/ |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/people/women/fanny-kemble/ |title= Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2012 |publisher= Exploring Surrey's Past |access-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-date= 31 October 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201031213614/https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/people/women/fanny-kemble/ |url-status= live }}</ref>
* [[Benjamin Scott]] (1814–1892) – [[Chamberlain of London|Chamberlain of the City of London]], lived at Heath House (now named Lorimar House), founded the [[Congregational church#United Kingdom|Congregational]] chapel (now [[Weybridge United Reformed Church]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weybridgeurc.org.uk/page8.htm |title=The Story of the Church and "Revelations in Stone" |year=2015 |publisher=Weybridge United Reformed Church |access-date=10 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111162602/http://www.weybridgeurc.org.uk/page8.htm |archive-date=11 January 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/24862|last=Welch|first=Charles|title=Scott, Benjamin (1814–1892), chamberlain of London }}</ref>
* [[George Fergusson Wilson]] (1822–1902) – industrial chemist, lived at Weybridge from 1863 until his death<ref>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/36954|last=McConnell|first=Anita|title=Wilson, George Fergusson }}</ref>
* [[Lionel Smith Beale]] (1828–1906) – [[physician]] and [[microscopy|microscopist]], lived in Weybridge from 1885 to 1904<ref>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/30656|last=Worboys|first=Michael|title=Beale, Lionel Smith }}</ref>
* [[Elizabeth Dawes]] (1864–1954) – classical scholar and teacher, lived and taught in Weybridge from 1889 until her death<ref>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/58469|last=Harwick|first=Lorna|title=Dawes, Elizabeth Anna Sophia }}</ref>
* [[George May, 1st Baron May]] (1871–1946) – financial expert and civil servant, lived at Eyot House<ref>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34963|last=Westall|first=Oliver|title=May, George Ernest, first Baron May }}</ref>
* [[Frank Finlay]] (1926–2016) – actor, lived at Weybridge at time of his death.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35455932 |title=Actor Frank Finlay dies aged 89 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=31 January 2016 |date=30 January 2016}}</ref>
*[[Colin Davis]] (1927–2013) – conductor, was born in the town.<ref>{{Who's Who |year= 2010 |title=Davis, Sir Colin |id= U13161 |doi= 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U13161 }}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Blyth|1972|p=4}}</ref>
* [[Bernard Cribbins]] (1928-2022) - actor, lived in Weybridge latter half of his life.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/bernard-cribbins-nearly-90-and-still-the-nations-favourite-uncle-99zmr63f2|title=Bernard Cribbins — nearly 90 and still the nation's favourite uncle|last=Maxwell|first=Dominic|date=28 November 2018|work=[[The Times]]|access-date=23 December 2020|archive-date=1 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101230636/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bernard-cribbins-nearly-90-and-still-the-nations-favourite-uncle-99zmr63f2|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[John Fozard]] (1928–1996) – aeronautical engineer and designer of the [[Hawker Siddeley Harrier]], lived at St George's Hill<ref>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/65011|last=Farara|first=C. J.|title=Fozard, John William }}</ref>
* [[John Lennon]] (1940–1980) – musician, lived at [[Kenwood, St. George's Hill|Kenwood]], St George's Hill from 1964 to 1968<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title= All you need is £14m to buy Lennon's home |date= 7 January 2014 |page= 4 |issue= 71087 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Harper |first= Paul |date= 5 August 2016 |orig-date= 4 August 2016 |title= John Lennon's spectacular former mansion in Weybridge on the market for £9m |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/property-news/john-lennons-spectacular-former-mansion-11705329 |work= Surrey Live |access-date= 13 September 2021 |archive-date= 26 February 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210226065447/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/property-news/john-lennons-spectacular-former-mansion-11705329 |url-status= live }}</ref>
* [[Cliff Richard]] (b. 1940) - singer, had his main home for some years in Weybridge, which he shared with his manager Bill Latham and the latter's mother.<ref name=independent1>{{cite news |last=Vallely |first=Paul |title=The Bachelor Boy |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/the-bachelor-boy-1340718.html |access-date=16 December 2013 |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |date=7 March 1996}}</ref>
* [[Ringo Starr]] (b. 1940) – musician, lived at St George's Hill from 1965 to 1968<ref>{{cite news |last= Hughes |first= Amani |date= 11 November 2015 |title= Beatles in Surrey: Nostalgic look back at the Fab Four's link to the county |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/beatles-surrey-nostalgic-look-back-10425308 |work= Surrey Live |access-date= 13 September 2021 |archive-date= 5 March 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210305210846/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/beatles-surrey-nostalgic-look-back-10425308 |url-status= live }}</ref>
* [[Mike Yarwood]] (1941–2023) - [[impressionist (entertainment)|impressionist]], lived at Weybridge when retired in 2007.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/style/fashion/trends/article62616.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070203/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/style/fashion/trends/article62616.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 March 2016 |title=Relative Values: Mike Yarwood and his daughter, Clare |newspaper=[[The Sunday Times]] |date=8 April 2007 |access-date=20 May 2016}}</ref>
* [[Jacqueline Bisset]] (b. 1944) - actress, born at Weybridge<ref>''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005''; at ancestry.com</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/808627005|last=Crewe|first=Quentin|date=17 January 1965|title=I Have Hopes|work=Sunday Mirror}}</ref>
* [[Gilbert O'Sullivan]] (b. 1946) - singer-songwriter, lived at Weybridge in 1973<ref>{{Cite news |last=Simpson |first=Dave |date=2022-06-08 |title=‘I never lost the joy!’: singer Gilbert O’Sullivan on love, loss and lawsuits |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/08/i-never-lost-the-joy-singer-gilbert-osullivan-on-love-loss-and-lawsuits |access-date=2024-09-27 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>Hutchinson, Tom (16 August 1973). "Win an Award on an Egg". ''Daily Telegraph''.</ref>
* [[Theo Paphitis]] (b. 1959) – businessman, entrepreneur and TV personality<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/dragons-den-star-theo-paphitis-on-why-he-sees-the-7100816 |title= Dragons' Den star Theo Paphitis on why he sees the credit crunch as an opportunity for business |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 3 February 2021 |orig-date= 11 April 2012 |publisher= Great British Life |access-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-date= 3 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210903171315/https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/dragons-den-star-theo-paphitis-on-why-he-sees-the-7100816 |url-status= live }}</ref>
* [[Bernie Nolan]] (1960–2013) – singer of group [[The Nolans]] and actress, lived in Weybridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://surrey.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/the-nolans-bernie-nolan-on-family-life-in-weybridge-her-favourite-dog-walks-and-top-restaurants-17942/|title=The Nolans' Bernie Nolan on family life in Weybridge, her favourite dog walks and top restaurants|date=February 2010|publisher=Surrey Life}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Grade II* listed buildings in Elmbridge]]
* [[Geology of Surrey]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Weybridge}}
{{Wikivoyage|Weybridge}}
* {{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Weybridge |volume=28 |short=x}}
* [https://www.weybridgesociety.org.uk Weybridge Society]
* [https://elmbridgemuseum.org.uk Elmbridge Museum]

{{Geographic Location
|title     = '''Neighbouring areas of Surrey'''
|Northwest = [[Chertsey]]
|North     = [[Shepperton]]
|Northeast = [[Upper Halliford]]
|East      = {{unbulleted list|[[Walton-on-Thames]]|[[Hersham]]}}
|Centre    = Weybridge
|West      = [[Addlestone]]
|Southwest = [[Byfleet]]
|South     = [[Wisley]]
|Southeast = [[Cobham, Surrey|Cobham]]
}}
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