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unusual facts about Walton on Thames



Desborough Cut

The Desborough Cut is an artificial channel in the River Thames above Sunbury Lock near Walton on Thames in England.

Harold Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson

Harold Arthur Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson, CH, PC (25 January 1910, in Walton on Thames – 19 December 1995, in Bosham) was a British businessman and Conservative politician.


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Hersham and Walton Motors

Then HWM owners George Abecassis and John Heath went racing together from 1946 and in 1948 they built a streamlined sports racing car on the chassis of a Sports Alta, and thus embarked upon the construction of racing cars and racing sports cars at their motor works in Walton-on-Thames, England.

Phaius tancarvilleae

Later, Joseph Banks named the plant in honour of Lady Emma Tankerville, as the orchid flowered in her greenhouse at Walton-on-Thames near London.

Tyger

Tyger Drew-Honey (born 1996), English child actor from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey