Weybridge

Weybridge is a town in the Elmbridge district of Surrey in South East England. It is bounded to the north by the River Thames at the mouth of the River Wey, from which it gets its name. Weybridge is made up of a number of distinct areas: town centre shopping area, Monument Hill/Queens Road shopping area, St George’s Hill, Brooklands and Oatlands Village.
A pretty interesting thing about the early history of Weybridge was that it was once simply a river crossing. In 1537 it became the location of Oatlands Palace built by Henry VIII. When it was demolished in 1650, bricks from its walls helped to line the then new Wey Navigation canal. Part of the original site of the Palace is now occupied by Oatlands Park Hotel.

At least four hotels are available in Weybridge, and lots and lots of attractions. Some attractions to take your car hire to include Brooklands Museum which opened in 1991 on 30 acres of the original 1907 motor-racing circuit; Chertsey Museum, which is housed in the Cedars, a Grade II listed Regency town house with an attractive garden; Kingston Museum which was built in 1904 with contributions from Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish American benefactor; over four parks; and several race courses.

One interesting tidbit about all you aspiring entomologists out there, the entomologist, Horace Donisthorpe, visited Weybridge to investigate the ant colony. Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist (one who studies ants) and coleopterist (one who studies beetles), memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea, and for his many claims of discovering new species of beetles and ants. Visiting this site should be yet another stop you make in your car hire during your visit to Weybridge.