Virginia Water
Virginia Water is a traveler community or town in north Surrey, residence to the Wentworth Estate and the Wentworth Club. The area occupies a huge minority of the Borough of Runnymede. Its name is shown to the lake on its western limit: Windsor Great Park. Virginia Water is close to the M25, M4 as well as M3 motorways. Heathrow Airport is seven miles to the north-east. A report from October 2015 detailed Virginia Water as one of the most costly town (excepting specific London boroughs) for residential property in the UK, having a typical home cost exceeding £1m. The 2011 Census revealed the population of Virginia Water to be 5,940. A number of the homes are located on the Wentworth Estate, the residence of the Wentworth Club which has four golf links. The Ryder Cup was first played there. It is also home to the headquarters of the PGA European Tour, the professional golf trip. The estate got to the headlines in 1998 when General Augusto Pinochet was kept under house arrest in one of its houses prior to his extradition. The town has a junction railway station within the estate. Frequent South Western Railway trains run to London Waterloo, Weybridge, Twickenham, Richmond, Staines, Feltham, Clapham Junction, Vauxhall and Analysis.
