London Car Rental Walton On Thames

Car Rental – Walton On Thames

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Walton-on-Thames Local Information

A short drive from Charing Cross in your car rental is the town of Walton-on-Thames, in the borough of Surrey, which is in the district of Elmbridge. Although the village was originally located to the north of the current settlement, with the building of the railway the town moved south to be closer to the new station.

Walton is believed to have meant either ‘farm of the Britons’ or ‘Saxon settlement’. However, before even the Britons were on the site, it was a Celtic settlement. The word the Anglo-Saxons used for the Celts who lived there was ‘Wealas’.

Some schools of thought have it that Walton-on-Thames was the place Caesar crossed the Thames on his second invasion of Britain, but others state there is no evidence to suggest this.

The Parish Church of Saint Mary’s dates back to the 1100s. The tower inside houses six bells, the oldest dated 1606. Henry VIII built his Oatlands palace a mile upstream to the west of the church in 1538.

On the site of the current Walton Bridge have been five bridges, with plans at the moment for a sixth. Prior to the bridges, a ferry took people and parcels across the river – this was as early as the 1400s. Drive across the modern bridge (before it too is replaced) in your car rental and become part of history!

Julie Andrews was born in Walton-on-Thames – why not take a drive in your car rental and see if you can’t spot where she might have lived as a child. Or, use your car rental to find locations in various Monty Python sketches. The Adventures of Robin Hood was filmed at the studios in Walton-on-Thames, at Nettleford Studios.

During World War One, troops from New Zealand hospitalised at the old Mount Felix House. Although the building is now no longer there, the troops are remembered through the New Zealand Avenue, the Wellington Pub (this used to be known as The Kiwi) and a small memorial in the carpark of Homebase.

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