Sunninghill, Berkshire

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Sunninghill is a village in the civil parish of Sunninghill and Ascot in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the English county of Berkshire. It is located approximately six miles (9.7 km) south-west of Heathrow Airport, and is just outside Ascot, one of the UK's most famous locations for horse racing.

The name Sunninghill means 'the home of Sunna's people'. [1] With a history that likely dates back to Saxon days, there have been records of people living in or near Sunninghill since the 1300s. At nearby Silwood Park, the Manor Sunninghill was settled in 1362 by John de Sunninghill, the first of numerous recorded residents of the area. [2] The park is now a campus of Imperial College London, where CONSORT, a small nuclear reactor for civilian scientific research, has been in use since 1964. Sunninghill was one time refuge to King Zog I of Albania.


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