Virginia Water is a traveler town or town in north Surrey, house to the Wentworth Estate as well as the Wentworth Club. The area occupies a large minority of the Borough of Runnymede. Its name is shown to the lake on its western boundary: Windsor Great Park. Virginia Water is close to the M25, M4 as well as M3 freeways. Heathrow Airport is seven miles to the north-east. A record from October 2015 noted Virginia Water as the most pricey community (excepting individual London boroughs) for residential or commercial property in the UK, having an ordinary residence cost going beyond £1m. The 2011 Census revealed the population of Virginia Water to be 5,940. Much of the houses are situated on the Wentworth Estate, the home of the Wentworth Club which has 4 golf courses. The Ryder Cup was first played there. It is additionally home to the headquarters of the PGA European Tour, the expert golf excursion. The estate got to the headlines in 1998 when General Augusto Pinochet was kept under house arrest in among its residences before his extradition. The town has a junction railway station within the estate. Regular South Western Railway trains run to London Waterloo, Weybridge, Twickenham, Richmond, Staines, Feltham, Clapham Junction, Vauxhall and also Reading.