Send is a village and civil parish in the Guildford borough of the English county of Surrey. Send acquired its name during the Great English Vowel Shift[dubious – discuss] from the word sand, which was extracted at various periods until the 1990s for construction and other purposes at pits in the outskirts of the parish. The north of Send is at the southern-eastern edge of the Bagshot Formation.
Population: 6,597
Latitude: 51° 17' 19.50" N
Longitude: 0° 31' 35.98" E
Farnborough Airport or TAG London Farnborough Airport (IATA: FAB, ICAO: EGLF) (previously called RAE Farnborough, ICAO Code EGUF) is an operational business/executive general aviation airport in Farnborough, Rushmoor, Hampshire, England.
Control of the United Kingdom's high-voltage power transmission network (the "National Grid"), is exercised from the National Grid Control Centre.
Thatched House Lodge is a Grade II-listed building and privately-owned royal residence in Richmond Park in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in London, England. Since 1963 Thatched House Lodge has been the residence of Princess Alexandra, T…
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is a Royal Borough of Berkshire, in South East England.
Newark Priory is a ruined priory on an island surrounded by the River Wey and its moat-like channel the Abbey Stream near the southern boundary of the village of Pyrford in Surrey, England
The 284 miles (457 km) A30 road from London to Land's End, used to provide the most direct route from London to the south west; nowadays the M3 motorway and A303 road performs this function for much of the route and only parts of A30 now retain trun…
Plough Lane was a football stadium in Wimbledon, south west London. For nearly eighty years it was the home ground of Wimbledon Football Club, from September 1912 until May 1991, when the club moved their first team home matches to Selhurst Park as …
Elmbridge is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England.
The 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash was an air show accident involving a de Havilland DH.110 that killed 29 spectators, the pilot John Derry and the onboard flight test observer Anthony Richards. The DH.110, a prototype, was being demonstrated…
The River Wey is a tributary of the River Thames in south east England and one of two major tributaries in Surrey. It begins as two branches rising outside the county which join at Tilford between Guildford and Farnham. Once combined the flow is eas…
The Institute of Cancer Research (the ICR) is a public research institute and university located in London, United Kingdom specialised in oncology, and a constituent college of the University of London.
The Royal Grammar School (originally "The Free School"), commonly known as the RGS, is a selective English independent day school for boys in Guildford, Surrey. The school dates its founding to the death of Robert Beckingham in 1509 who left provisi…
Epsom Downs is a Grade 1 racecourse near Epsom, Surrey, England. The "Downs" referred to in the name are part of the North Downs. The course, which has a crowd capacity of 120,000, is best known for hosting the Epsom Derby, the United Kingdom's prem…
Colossus is a roller coaster at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, and the park's first major attraction. It was built by Swiss manufacturers Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel as an adaptation of Monte Makaya in Brazil. Tussauds designer John Ward…
Windsor Safari Park was a popular family attraction built on St. Leonards Hill on the outskirts of the town of Windsor in Berkshire, England; it has since been converted into the site of Legoland Windsor.
Morden is a London Underground station in Morden in the London Borough of Merton. The station is the southern terminus for the Northern line and is the most southerly station on the Underground network. The next station north is South Wimbledon.
ACS International Schools is a group of four private schools, three in England and one in Qatar. Until 2005, the organisation was known as American Community Schools.
The Devil's Punch Bowl is a large natural amphitheatre and beauty spot near Hindhead, Surrey, in England, and is the source of many stories about the area.