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More about Sandhurst Berkshire
Sandhurst is a small town of around 7,500 homes and
22,000 inhabitants, located in the south east of the
(former) Royal County of Berkshire. It is on the river
of blackwater close to the boundaries of Hampshire and
Surrey. Sandhurst is 7 miles south of the new town of
Bracknell and the closest major town is Camberley
(Surrey). Sandhurst is within easy reach of the M3 (3.4
miles) and M4 (10.3 miles) motorways, as well as the
A329(M) to Reading. Sandhurst railway station is served
by First Great Western, on the line between Gatwick,
Guildford and Reading.
Sandhurst is primarily a domicile town with a few light
industries. Sandhurst has representation through several
tiers of government - town council, unitary authority,
parliamentary (UK and European). Its Town Council is
divided into four wards: Central Sandhurst, Little
Sandhurst, College Town and Owlsmoor. It is part of
Bracknell Forest Borough. Sandhurst is home to a large
out-of-town development, despite its close proximity to
Camberley. The site is named 'The Meadows' and has a
Tesco Extra hypermarket and a Marks and Spencer. It is
known nationwide as the location of the Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst (often referred to simply as
"Sandhurst," "The Academy," or "The RMA"). Current
attendees include Prince William, son of the Prince of
Wales, Prince Charles.
The name originates from the sandy soils and hurst (a
wood eminence) of the area.
One of the earliest records of Sandhurst is in the
Sonning Hundreds of 1316 when it belonged to the Bishop
of Salisbury. In 1354 there is a record of a manor but
no great house existed-only the small sub manor houses,
one in the grounds of what is now the Royal Military
Academy and the other on the site of Sandhurst Lodge.
Nothing remains of either building.
Part of the area between College Town and Central
Sandhurst was owned by Sir William Sandy, Lord
Chancellor to Henry VIII from 1526 to 1540. Sandhurst
was a small farming community. As part of Windsor Forest
and subject to forest laws, local people therefore had
right to cut turf, heather, bracken and wood that has
been cultivated to feed the forest deer. There are
records of disputes that were caused by locals taking
wood other than that which was allowed.
Farming continued to be a major part of village life
(and still is to this day). Some of the farms are still
remembered in the names of housing estates, roads and a
restaurant - Sandhurst Farm, Snaprails, Caves Farm,
Ambarrow Farm, College Farm, Rectory Farm, Beech farm
and Rackstraws Farm.
Very little changed until the 1800's when large sections
of land were sold for the building of the Royal Military
College in 1812. The railway arrived in 1849, in 1856
Wellington College was built and Broadmoor Asylum in
1863. Large houses were built- Sandhurst Lodge in about
1858 by Robert Gibson, and leased to John Walter,
founder of the Times Newspaper and also Sir William
Farrer, solicitor to Queen Victoria and the Duke of
Wellington. Other large houses included Harts Leap;
Forest End; St Helens Upland; The Warren; Longdown
Lodge; Ryefield; Snaprails and Ambarrow Court. Perry
Hill and The Ceders came later. Only a few remain today.
The others have been demolished and land developed.
The local population expanded with the arrival of the
railways, College, Institutions and large houses. More
houses were necessary for the workers, more schools for
the children and more churches built. A Parish church
existed on the site of St Michael's Parish Church from
the 13th century and the present church was rebuilt in
1853. The Baptist Church was built in 1884 and the
Weslyan Methodist followed in 1906. The Catholic Church
was completed in 1960 and St George's Owlsmoor in 1993.
Sandhurst now has nine public houses the oldest being
the Rose and Crown in the High Street, at one time a
Simmonds house. The Simmonds family had land in the
village and owned a brewery which supplied beer and ale
to the RMA -- indeed to much of the British Army in all
parts of the world.
In 1862 St Michael's Church of England school was
opened. Other schools followed, Old Scotland Hill in
1871, The Methodist in 1906 and College Town in 1907.
Uplands and Owlsmoor primaries were added in 1962 and
1974. Secondary pupils were sent to Camberley and
Bracknell until 1969 when Sandhurst Comprehensive was
built. Situated in Owlsmoor Road it is now Sandhurst
School.
Through the late fifties into the eighties large housing
estates were built quickly creating the town today from
the original four villages of College Town, Sandhurst,
Little Sandhurst and Owlsmoor.
Courtesy of Wikimedia,
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