Virginia Water
Virginia Water is a commuter village in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England.
Virginia Water is a commuter village in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England. It is home to the Wentworth Estate and the Wentworth Club. The area has much woodland and occupies a large minority of the Runnymede district. Its name is shared with the lake on its western boundary within Windsor Great Park. Virginia Water has multiple transport links with London–Trumps Green and Thorpe Green touch the M3, Thorpe touches the M25, and Heathrow Airport is 7 miles (11 km) northeast.
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Worth seeing in and around Virginia Water
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London, formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a member institution of the federal University of London. It has 3 faculties, 12 academic departments and approximately 10,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students from more than 100 countries.
3 km · university in Surrey, UK · Wikipedia - 02Cumberland Lodge
Cumberland Lodge is a 17th-century Grade II listed country house in Windsor Great Park 3.5 miles south of Windsor Castle. Since 1947 it has been occupied by the charitable foundation known as Cumberland Lodge, an educational charity and social enterprise that exists to empower young people to lead the conversation around social division.
3.8 km · country house in Windsor Great Park · Wikipedia - 03Fort Belvedere, Surrey
Fort Belvedere is a Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England. The fort was built as a folly by Henry Flitcroft in 1750–1755, and was later predominantly re-constructed by Jeffry Wyatville in a Gothic Revival style in the 1820s.
1.6 km · Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Virginia Water Lake
Virginia Water lies on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park, in the borough of Runnymede in Surrey and the civil parishes of Old Windsor and Sunningdale in Berkshire, in England. It is a man-made lake taking its name from a natural body of water of the same name.
1.4 km · lake on the boundary of Berkshire and Surrey, in England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Savill Garden
The Savill Garden is an enclosed part of Windsor Great Park in England, created by Sir Eric Savill in the 1930s. It is managed by the Crown Estate and charges an entrance fee.
3.1 km · enclosed part of Windsor Great Park in Surrey, England · Wikipedia - 06Founder's Building
The Founder's Building is the original building of Royal Holloway, University of London, in Egham, Surrey, England. It is an example of French-Renaissance-style architecture in the United Kingdom, having been modelled on French chateaux such as Château de Chambord.
3 km · Gothic Revival original building of Royal Holloway College, University of London; in Egham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Englefield Green
The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption is a Roman Catholic church in Englefield Green, Surrey. It is situated on St Cuthbert's Close and faces Harvest Road in the older side of the village close to Egham Hill.
3.4 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Valley Gardens
The Valley Gardens are 220 acres of woodland garden, part of the Crown Estate located near Englefield Green in the English county of Surrey, on the eastern edge of Windsor Great Park. The Valley Gardens and the nearby Savill Gardens are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
2 km · botanical garden near Englefield Green in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Coworth House
Coworth House, currently known as Coworth Park Hotel, is a late 18th-century country house situated at Sunningdale, near Ascot, in the English county of Berkshire. It is one of the ten hotels operated by the Dorchester Collection, a group of luxury hotels in Europe and the United States owned by the Brunei Investment Agency.
2 km · country house hotel · Wikipedia - 10Great Fosters
Great Fosters is a 16th-century mansion which originally lay within Windsor Great Park and is still adjacent to the town of Egham, Surrey, England. It is a Grade I listed building, close to Heathrow and the M25 London orbital motorway.
3.4 km · Grade I listed country house in Egham, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Virginia Water
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 12 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 40 km · London Luton (LTN), 55 km
- Stations
- Longcross railway station, 1.9 km · Sunningdale railway station, 3.2 km · Virginia Water railway station, 1.9 km
- Luton, Luton → Virginia Water54 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
- London, Essex → Virginia Water33 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £3.5–5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Virginia Water151 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Virginia Water
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Virginia Water. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe South's major ferry ports are (clockwise from the east) Dover (ferries from Calais and Dunkirk in France), Newhaven (ferries from Dieppe in France) and Portsmouth (ferries from the Channel Islands, Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre and St.
- Get inPoole (which shares ferries from the Channel Islands, Cherbourg and St.
- Go nextLondon - The capital is practically on your doorstep when you're in South East England, so it is an obvious choice for a day trip or longer.
- Go nextGo Abroad - The South East is the closest part of the UK to the European mainland (the English Channel is just 20 miles (32 km) across at its narrowest), and with Channel Tunnel journey times from Kent to Calais as short as 35 minutes, day trips to northern France, Belgium and beyond are highly feasible and attractive.
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Next door to Virginia Water
Virginia Water is 26 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sunningdalevillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK2.6 km
- Runnymedelocal government district with borough status in Surrey, England3.4 km
- Englefield Greenvillage in the borough of Runnymede, Surrey, UK3.4 km
- Lynevillage in the borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England3.5 km
- Thorpevillage in the borough of Runnymede, Surrey, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Longcrossvillage in Surrey, England, UK2.7 km