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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sunbury on Thames like this: SUNBURY, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Staines district, Middlesex.
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 origins of the ancient village of Sunbury-on-Thames can be traced back to AD 962 when King Eadgar's Charter granted land to his kinsman AElfheh. The village is situated 3 miles from Hampton Court on the Middlesex bank of the River Thames.
Jan 8, 2014 · During the 17th and 18th centuries, wealthy merchants built country houses and in the early 1800s, visitors started to arrive, attracted by the idea of rowing and punting on the Thames....
- Andrea Dean
Sunbury was almost the farthest upstream of the Thames villages which became popular with the upper and middle classes in the 18th century, and it never became fashionable in the manner of Richmond, Twickenham, or Hampton.
The historic walled garden in Sunbury Park was built in the early part of the 18th Century. Spelthorne Council embarked on a restoration project of the two acre garden, starting in the autumn of 1985. Trees, shrubs and climbers grow within the ancient walls, up to 8 to 10 ft high in places.
Mar 1, 2022 · The section of the M3 from Sunbury to Lightwater opened in 1974, and the transformation of Sunbury Cross into a ma-jor transport hub was complete.
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