Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey - Sunbury Court Salvation Army Conference Centre

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• Picture / Image:  Salvation Army Conference Centre, Sunbury Court, Sunbury on Thames, Surrey
• Publisher:  District View Publishing, Leicester
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Sunbury-on-Thames also known as Sunbury is a town in the Surrey borough of Spelthorne (historically part of Middlesex), England. It lies just outside of Greater London, adjacent to the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames.^{[n 1]} Sunbury is 13 miles (21 km) southwest of central London, bordered by Shepperton, Ashford, Feltham and Hampton and flanked on the south by the River Thames.

The earliest evidence of occupation in Sunbury is provided by the discovery of Bronze Age funerary urns dating from the 10th century BC. It is mentioned in the Sunbury Charter in AD 962. Many years later the arrival of Huguenot refugees gave the name to French Street.

Sunbury was in the Middlesex Domesday map in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Suneberie. Its Domesday assets were: 7 hides. It had 5 ploughs, meadow for 6 ploughs, cattle pasture. It rendered £6.^[3]

Sunbury Court in Lower Sunbury is the home of the high council of the Salvation Army, built in 1723.^[4]

Sunbury was once the residence of Admiral Hawke who blockaded Rochefort in 1757 and in 1758 he directed the blockade of Brest for six months.

Rev. Gilbert White described Sunbury, in The Natural History of Selborne, letter xii, 4 November 1767 as ""one of those pleasant villages lying on the Thames, near Hampton Court"".

In 1889 a group of music hall stars met in the Magpie Hotel in Lower Sunbury to form the Grand Order of Water Rats. The pub itself was named after the horse that one of the entertainers owned, whilst the Grand Order was named because the Magpie (a trotting pony belonging to Richard Thornton, music hall owner)^[5] had been described as a drowned water rat. The Three Fishes in Green Street is one of the oldest pubs in Surrey, thought to date back to the 16th century.^[6]

In the twentieth century, kennels near Sunbury Cross in the town were used for keeping greyhounds for racing at the disbanded stadiums of Wandsworth, Charlton and Park Royal.^[7]

Sunbury-on-Thames is historically part of Middlesex, forming the Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District from 1894.^[8] In 1965, most of Middlesex was absorbed into Greater London. However, the Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District was instead transferred to Surrey.^[8] The Royal Mail did not adopt the change in 1965 and the postal county remained Middlesex; although postal counties are no longer officially in use.^[9] In 1974 the urban district was abolished and it has since formed part of the borough of Spelthorne.^[10]

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period=1945 - present

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