Virginia Water
Virginia Water is a commuter community or village in northern Surrey, residence to the Wentworth Estate and also the Wentworth Club. The place inhabits a big minority of the Borough of Runnymede. Its name is shown the lake on its western border: 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 the most expensive community (excepting private London districts) for residential property in the UK, having an ordinary house rate exceeding £1m. The 2011 Census showed the population of Virginia Water to be 5,940. Most of the homes are situated on the Wentworth Estate, the residence of the Wentworth Club which has 4 golf links. The Ryder Cup was first played there. It is additionally home to the headquarters of the PGA European Tour, the specialist golf scenic tour. The estate reached the headings in 1998 when General Augusto Pinochet was kept under house arrest in among its residences before his extradition. The community has a junction train station within the estate. Frequent South Western Railway trains run to London Waterloo, Weybridge, Twickenham, Richmond, Staines, Feltham, Clapham Junction, Vauxhall and also Analysis.
