Englefield Green
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 The War Memorial and St. Judes Road shops in the village centre |
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| Englefield Green shown within Surrey | |
| Area | 9.21 km2 (3.56 sq mi) |
| Population | 10,607 (2011 census) |
| • Density | 1,152/km2 (2,980/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SU995710 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Egham |
| Postcode district | TW20 |
| Dialling code | 01784 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | |
Englefield Green is a large village in northern Surrey, England. It is home to Royal Holloway, University of London, the south eastern corner of Windsor Great Park, borders the town of Egham and more tightly-clustered village of Virginia Water. Its nearest main commercial hubs are Staines-upon-Thames (2.5 miles (4 km)) and Windsor (4 miles (6 km)). The village grew from a hamlet in Egham in the 19th century, when much of it was sold off from the Great Park in the Crown Estate, and is mostly residential. There are pretty gardens as well as some Cycle paths. The village is not bisected by trunk transport infrastructure however is connected to the M25 motorway by the Egham by-pass of the A30 road and is centred 1 mile (1.6 km) from Egham railway station.
It takes up two electoral wards of the United Kingdom that include the Magna Carta location of Runnymede (this remains a part of the ancient and reduced Egham ecclesiastical parish), various public greens and woodland at Cooper's Hill.
The village grew from a hamlet and medieval farmed swathe of land, known as a tithing, of the same name, combined with was a much wider, that is eastern tranche of its area associated with the former Great South West Road and its neighbouring land known as Egham Hill, both in Egham in the 19th century, when much of its land, principally in the western half, was parted with by sale from the Great Park in the Crown Estate. Parts of it in the west remain Crown Estate, mainly the entire south-east quarter of the Great Park (that non-built-up land seen in the map, shown, which is not in neighbouring Berkshire).
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