21 Facts About Weybridge

Reforms during the Tudor period reduced the importance of manorial courts and the day-to-day administration of towns such as Weybridge became the responsibility of the vestry of the parish church.

The Weybridge vestry oversaw the distribution of poor relief and the maintenance of local roads.

Name "Weybridge" suggests that there has been a bridge over the River Wey in the area since Anglo-Saxon times.

River Thames through Weybridge was further improved when the Desborough Cut was opened in 1935.

Towards the end of the 18th century, Weybridge was beginning to expand beyond its medieval footprint.

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Much of the 20th century, Weybridge was a centre for the aerospace industry.

At the start of the First World War, Weybridge became a training base for the 244 Motorised Transport Company, an army unit of mechanics and drivers operating as part of the 19th Divisional Supply Column.

Weybridge served throughout the war in the Gallipoli and Balkans campaigns.

Weybridge organised a rest station for troops at Weybridge railway station.

Town is in the parliamentary constituency of Runnymede and Weybridge and has been represented at Westminster since May 2019 by Conservative Ben Spencer.

Weybridge is divided between three wards, each of which elect three councillors to Elmbridge Borough Council.

Weybridge is linked by a number of bus routes to surrounding towns and villages in north Surrey and south west London.

Weybridge received its first drinking water supply in 1869, when the West Surrey Water Company was formed.

In 1890, Weybridge became the first town in Britain to have electric street lighting using incandescent filament bulbs.

In 1921, the Weybridge brigade was made responsible for attending fires in Cobham.

In 2021, the fire authority for Weybridge is Surrey County Council and the statutory fire service is Surrey Fire and Rescue Service.

Major renovations to Weybridge church were carried out in 1722, including the construction of a south aisle.

Weybridge attended mass at the chapel until his death in 1850.

Foundation stone of Weybridge United Reformed Church was laid on 4 July 1864 by John Remington Mills.

Whilst living at Weybridge he wrote The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment, his first work of fiction, which was published in 1856.

In Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, Weybridge is referred to by one of Saladin Chamcha's interrogators as his place of residence.