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unusual facts about Windsor Great Park


Eglinton, County Londonderry

Eglinton still has an elegant church, former market house, trees around a green and four oaks which started life in Windsor Great Park.


Althea Wynne

She died suddenly in January 2012, killed with her husband in a road accident on the A36 near her home while returning from the foundry that was to cast her last commission, two large bronzes of Windsor Grey horses for Windsor Great Park.

Armstrong Whitworth Argosy

In April 1931 Edward, Prince of Wales and his brother Prince George flew home from Paris–Le Bourget Airport in City of Glasgow (G-EBLF), which landed specially in Windsor Great Park.

Brian Woledge

Woledge introduced Reading Week and the "conferences" at Missenden Abbey or Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park to integrate new students into the department, and established UCL's own B.A. in French.

Norah Hoult

She married the writer Oliver Stonor, and lived with him at The Cottage in Windsor Great Park for a year, but returned to Ireland to collect material for her writing from 1931 to 1937.

Surrey Heath

The stag's head on the crest refers to Bagshot Park, a royal demesne since Norman times and hunting ground of the Stuart kings, and also to the fact that much of the area was formerly part of Windsor Forest.


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