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8 unusual facts about Englefield Green


1852 in the United Kingdom

19 October — The last fatal duel on English soil takes place on Priest Hill, between Englefield Green and Old Windsor, between two French refugees, Cournet and Barthelemy, the former being killed.

Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden

Restoration of the house and the formal gardens required immediate attention so work upon the woodland and water garden did not begin until the following year when he moved to South Walsham Hall from Surrey where he had already developed a garden at Bakenham House, Englefield Green.

George Tomkyns Chesney

The originator of the Royal Indian Civil Engineering College at Coopers Hill, Englefield Green, Egham, he was also its first president (1871–1880).

Guy Warrack

Guy Warrack (6 February 1900, Edinburgh - 12 February 1986, Englefield Green) was Scottish composer and conductor.

Michael Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens

Hughes-Young left the army, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, in 1947, and settled in Englefield Green in Surrey.

Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale

He lived for many years in Englefield Green, Surrey, was chairman of the council of Royal Holloway College during its merger with Bedford College in 1985.

The Wrong Box

The funeral coach and horse chase was filmed in St James Square, Bath, and on Englefield Green, Surrey, and surrounding lanes.

Willie McKnight

Flying Officer McKnight has no known grave; his name is inscribed on the Runnymede War Memorial, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom.


Trevredyn Rashleigh Wynne

Wynne was the son of Llewelyn Wynne of Mold, Flintshire and was educated at Brighton College and the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill.


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Westminster motorcycle parking charge

On 16 April 2010, local councillor Daniel Hamilton (for the Englefield Green East ward of the borough of Runnymede), having had his journey to work delayed by half an hour by a No To Bike Parking Tax rush-hour "go slow", called the demonstrators "tossers" on his Twitter account.