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Hace 5 días · Surrey (/ ˈ s ʌr i /) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the west. The largest settlement is Woking.. The county has an area of 1,663 km 2 (642 sq mi) and a population of 1,196,236.
Hace 3 días · South East England is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. It consists of the counties of Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex.Major towns and cities in the region include Brighton and Hove, Canterbury, Milton Keynes, Southampton ...
Hace 1 día · Lee Alexander McQueen CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992, and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the Council of Fashion Designers of America International ...
19 de may. de 2024 · Chertsey Abbey, founded in 666, had large landholdings across the county, and after 1066 large parts of the county belonged to the Norman nobility. Southwark, linked with London by the London Bridge, became an important ecclesiastical centre, and Kingston upon Thames was an important medieval market town.
20 de may. de 2024 · Staines-upon-Thames is a market town in northwest Surrey, England, around 17 miles (28 kilometres) west of central London. It is in the Borough of Spelthorne, at the confluence of the River Thames and Colne. Historically part of Middlesex, the town was transferred to Surrey in 1965.
Hace 2 días · The Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter of Chertsey was founded in the year A.D. 666 by Erkenwald, afterwards Bishop of London, who became its first abbot, the new foundation being endowed with lands by the munificence of Frithwald, Subregulus of Surrey, under Ulfar, King of the Mercians, who in subsequent accounts is associated with ...
21 de may. de 2024 · Weybridge (/ ˈ w eɪ b r ɪ dʒ /) is a town in the Elmbridge district in Surrey, England, around 17 mi (27 km) southwest of central London.The settlement is recorded as Waigebrugge and Weibrugge in the 7th century and the name derives from a crossing point of the River Wey, which flows into the River Thames to the north of the town centre. The earliest evidence of human activity is from the ...
