Saint George's Hill

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Saint George's Hill is a 964-acre (3.9 km²) private estate in Weybridge, Surrey in the United Kingdom. The estate features both a Golf and Tennis club as well as approx 420 houses. The estate is a popular residential location for celebrities and successful entrepreneurs. In a 2007 survey, most roads in the estate showed an average house sale price of over £3,000,000 in the previous 12 months.

1 Residences
2 Golf Club
3 Tennis Club
4 Residents
- 4.1 Famous Past Residents
5 References

[edit] Residences

The local builder Walter George Tarrant^[1] ^[2] owned the land and created many of the houses on the estate. Each house is required by in local laws to have at least one acre of land, and houses are restricted to a maximum of 4,000 sq ft (400 m²) multiplied by the total area of the plot. Additionally, boundaries cannot be marked by fences or walls, only by hedges and bushes.

[edit] Golf Club

The prestigious golf club was designed in 1912 by Harry Colt with the Clubhouse being built in the early 1920s^[3].

[edit] Tennis Club

The tennis club has 15 artificial grass tennis courts (8 floodlit), 15 grass and 2 indoor tennis courts, 4 squash courts, gym, air-conditioned studio, 20 m swimming pool, steam and sauna, bar and restaurants, creche and beauty spa^[4].

[edit] Residents

Current residents include:

Claude Makelele, footballer
Oleg Deripaska, Russian-born businessman
Theo Paphitis, Cyprus-born business multi-millionaire ans star of BBC2's Dragons Den

[edit] Famous Past Residents

Didier Drogba, footballer
Bobby Davro, comedian
John Lennon (at Kenwood, St. George's Hill)
Ringo Starr at Sunny Heights
Cliff Richard, singer at Yaffle Road, and later at Charters, South Ridge^[5]
Elton John, singer
Tom Jones (singer)^[6]
Engelbert Humperdinck, Singer
Gordon Mills, songwriter and manager (East Road)
Jenson Button, Formula 1 driver (Golf Club Road)
Eric Sykes, comedian
Sue Barker, tennis player (Warreners Lane)
Harry Goodman, airline entrepreneur (East Road)
Madge Syers, Ice skater
George Murray Smith, Publisher
Stefan Eriksson, Swedish criminal, infamous for a high profile accident in a Ferrari Enzo on California's Pacific Coast Highway
Diggers in 1649
Benjamin Winterroth, Shipping Magnate, "Appledown", Cavendish Road
Kate Winslet, Actress