41-533: Stanwell Moor is a village and moor in the Borough of Spelthorne , approximately 17 miles (27 km) west of central London. Historically part of the county of Middlesex , it was transferred to Surrey in 1965. West of its generally narrow moor is the M25 London Orbital Motorway and the village is 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 . The River Colne runs to
82-531: A day (1.205 million m /d) the joint company could abstract any surplus up to 100 million gallons (454,609 m ) of which 35 million gallons (159,113 m ) could be run directly to the filter beds at Hampton and the surplus (295,496 m /day) pumped into the reservoirs. The top water level in the North Reservoir is 3 m higher than the South reservoir. Water for treatment and use is drawn from the reservoirs through
123-413: A minority of the social housing . The non-urban parts, inclusive of the embanked water retaining reservoirs, are today for the most part Spelthorne's parks and lakes . The bulk of the rest is mostly narrow buffering land being arable farming, horse-grazing meadows and sheep grazing on the reservoir embankments and fringes with Green Belt legal status. Shopping is available in each of the towns and in
164-567: A regatta to Penton Hook in July for racing shells . Sunbury Skiff and Punting Club is the newest of all six which are quite clustered on the Thames, several of which incorporate dongola racing , dragon boat racing and canoeing . It organises an August regatta with fireworks. In May the Staines 10k charity run takes place organised by two local running/'strolling' clubs and the council. One of
205-485: A south-east direction into the Red House distribution reservoir (51°25'11.6"N 0°23'20.4"W). From here a pipeline and an open aqueduct takes water south to the reservoirs at the west end of Hampton waterworks. From 1916 experiments were undertaken to pre-treat the water in the aqueduct with chlorine added to the water from the Staines reservoirs. To increase the supply of water the aqueduct was paralleled underground in
246-549: A stable and energy-efficient drinking water supply to London, are bird reserves and in the case of the Queen Mary Reservoir, a sailing training centre. A similar percentage of land is covered by other lakes, mostly former gravel pits no longer pumped out of water. The 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) River Ash, Surrey starts and ends in the borough. Of recognised high importance to nature is Staines Moor , which alongside Sheepwalk Lake and wetlands , Shepperton are
287-523: Is a local government district with borough status in Surrey , England. Its council is based in Staines-upon-Thames ; other settlements in the area include Ashford , Sunbury-on-Thames , Shepperton , Stanwell and Laleham . It is named after the medieval Spelthorne Hundred which had covered the area. The borough is largely urban; although outside the boundaries of Greater London , it
328-672: Is a 13 km (8.1 mi) aqueduct that runs from the River Thames at Hythe End in Buckinghamshire (51°26'24.4"N 0°32'28.8"W) to the Red House distribution reservoir (51°25'11.6"N 0°23'20.4"W) near Kempton Park. It was built by the Staines Reservoirs Joint Committee and originally completed in 1902. The maximum flow capacity of the aqueduct is 364 million litres per day (364,000 m /day). Water
369-531: Is almost entirely inside the M25 motorway which encircles London . The borough contains several large reservoirs, including the Wraysbury Reservoir , Staines Reservoirs and Queen Mary Reservoir , which all supply fresh water to London and surrounding areas. The neighbouring districts are Elmbridge , Runnymede , Windsor and Maidenhead , Slough , Hillingdon , Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames ,
410-483: Is covered by the King George VI Reservoir after which is Staines upon Thames . South-west is the Wraysbury Reservoir . Carlone Ltd, a private bus operator, runs route 442 half-hourly through the village between Heathrow Terminal 5 and Staines upon Thames town centre via Stanwell and Ashford . The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that
451-468: Is drawn from the north side of the Thames about 300 yards above Bell Weir, at a decorative sluice house. This is provided with sluices to control the flow and screens to prevent debris entering the aqueduct. The water runs underground for about 350 yards in a north-east direction, it then flows in two steel siphons under the Colne Brook. It continues in a concrete lined open conduit, before going under
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#1732782666371492-557: Is due in 2027. Since the last boundary changes in 2003 the council has comprised 39 councillors representing 13 wards , with each ward electing three councillors. Elections are held every four years. The council offices are at Knowle Green in Staines. The building was opened in 1972 for the former Staines Urban District Council, shortly before that council was abolished in 1974 to be replaced by Spelthorne Borough Council. The borough council estimates it has 3.0 square kilometres (750 acres) of parks, including, from Shepperton upstream,
533-468: Is however, ecclesiastically, still strongly tied with Stanwell in the Church of England , its parish. Fewer than six of the original medieval buildings stand in the hamlet . It sits on the part of the parish on strongly fertile, partly densely wooded, alluvial soil, whereas most of Stanwell was associated with the stony ground which makes up gravel deposits near to the surface of the soil, as throughout
574-553: Is largely ceremonial in Spelthorne. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council . The leaders since 1995 have been: Following the 2023 election and subsequent by-elections and changes of allegiance up to July 2024, the composition of the council was: Five of the independent councillors sit together as the 'Independent Spelthorne Group', the other sits with the Conservatives. The next election
615-449: The 2023 election , independent councillor Joanne Sexton was appointed leader of the council, with Liberal Democrat councillor Chris Bateson serving as deputy leader. The first elections to the council were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council since 1974 has been as follows: The role of mayor
656-663: The Office for National Statistics managed to classify 50.8 square kilometres (19.6 sq mi), 99% of land in Spelthorne. The findings of this study showed that the land use in Spelthorne was as follows: Two Rivers Retail Park and Elmsleigh Shopping Centre in Staines-upon-Thames. In 2016 there were: The district has two publicly sponsored leisure centres and two private clubs with pools, and two without pools: It has two golf courses. School-taught English sports: cricket and football are played at many pitches;
697-568: The Staines Reservoir Bill of 1896. The bill was opposed by some landowners, London and Middlesex County Councils . Nevertheless, the bill was enacted, with amendments, as the Staines Reservoirs, &c. Act 1896 ( 59 & 60 Vict. c.ccxli). The companies formed a joint committee to oversee the construction. The two reservoirs, North and South, are separated by a 1,030-metre embankment dam. The embankments of
738-523: The Thames Path . Its sixteen main parks with recreational/sports facilities are supplemented by small greens and linear parks, such as those by the River Thames . The largest parks have woodland and flowering meadow. These support diverse and rare grasses, invertebrates and birds on a rich alluvial soil: Laleham Park and Sunbury Park . The final great reduction of private parks was that of
779-600: The 1960s by the Staines–Kempton aqueduct tunnel. This was built by the Metropolitan Water Board between 1960–63 and runs from Little Hythe on the Thames to the water treatment works at Kempton Park. It is 7.64 kilometres (4.75 mi) long and 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) in diameter. The tunnel is lined with 150,000 expanded concrete wedge blocks. The contractors for the project were Edmund Nuttall, Sons and Company Limited. In February 2014, after
820-680: The Church of England Diocese of London and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster . The rest of Surrey falls into the Anglican dioceses of Guildford and Southwark , and the Roman Catholic diocese of Arundel and Brighton . Floods in 2014 caused internal damage to 891 (or 2.2%) of homes in Spelthorne due to record rainfall causing Thames flooding . This compared to internal damage to more than 30% of homes in
861-496: The Staines Reservoirs Aqueduct, built as part of the works. Water was originally lifted from the aqueduct to the reservoirs by five steam driven engines, each with a capacity of 16 million gallons per day (72,737 m /day). The engines were housed in Staines pumping station south-west of the south reservoir. Under the original legal provisions, when the flow of the river at Bell Weir exceeded 265 million gallons
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#1732782666371902-527: The Wraysbury river in steel siphons, then east across Staines Moor and another siphon under the River Colne to Staines pumping station. From here water is lifted into the Staines and King George VI reservoirs by pumps. Water for treatment and use is drawn from the Staines and King George VI Reservoirs and flows along the Staines Reservoirs Aqueduct in an east-south-east direction to Ashford, then around
943-515: The area plus adjoining parts of modern Greater London. The district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor . The borough ceded a small amount of land in 1995, when Poyle was transferred to Slough. The Spelthorne area was included in the Metropolitan Police District from 1840 until 2000, when it passed to Surrey Police . Spelthorne remains part of
984-554: The area south of Heathrow Airport to the River Thames . The community is in the Stanwell North ward , as used by Spelthorne and for certain statistical purposes. A parade of shops is here, followed at one end by a pub . Distributaries of the complex River Colne runs past Stanwell Moor where it forms a broad part of the Colne Valley regional park . Stanwell Moor is buffered from all other settlements. Its south
1025-455: The borough, which is an unparished area . On 27 February 2024, Spelthorne Borough Council unveiled their Corporate Plan for 2024-2028, highlighting their key priorities for the next few years. As of 2023, the council had £1.1 billion in borrowing, with the highest borrowing to income ratio of any council in England. The council has been under no overall control since 2020. Following
1066-616: The county's major archery clubs (Spelthorne Archers) and five lawn bowls clubs. Fishing is open to all, subject to rod licensing, from the Thames Path National Trail and adjoining islands in Laleham and Staines as well as at lakes in Shepperton and Ashford. One rowing club is in the borough, at Laleham, with others nearby including Staines Boat Club across Staines Bridge from the town centre which organises
1107-632: The early 20th century, a sale of Laleham manor demesne by the Earl of Lucan . The Jockey Club , as owner of Kempton Park Racecourse , is successor to the domain of the lords of the manor of Kempton – about 40% is a large nature reserve with its internal two large ponds abutting the Kempton Park Reservoirs Site of Special Scientific Interest , on Thames flood meadow . The borough has five reservoirs, covering more than 15% of land, which apart from their main use of ensuring
1148-700: The east of the King George VI Reservoir near Heathrow airport in Surrey within the Colne Valley regional park . The village of Stanwell is mainly to the north east, and the town of Staines is to the south. Both adjoin, west, the A3044 . The south one adjoins the A30 where the road is bypassed by the intra-M25 motorway network but is a trunk road, maintained by National Highways . They were completed in 1902. For reliable and plentiful water supplies, three London water companies resolved to construct and operate two large reservoirs at seasonally waterlogged land partly in
1189-499: The height of the dam walls and removing the dividing embankment. The work was estimated to take up to six years to complete. From April 2020 a sheet pile cut-off wall was installed in two places to prevent leakage of water through the core of the south reservoir's embankment. The area has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) as it carries important wintering populations of tufted ducks , pochard , goosander and goldeneye . The Staines Reservoirs Aqueduct
1230-509: The latter three being London boroughs . The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , covering two former districts which were both abolished at the same time: These two urban districts had been part of Middlesex prior to 1965, when they had been transferred to Surrey on the creation of Greater London. The new district was named after the medieval hundred of Spelthorne, which had covered
1271-734: The more than 720 nationwide 5,000-metre running competitions of the major organiser is around the rugby union club in its borders, which has a small nature reserve it owns to one end. Other venues hosting annual events in a range of sports are Kempton Park Racecourse and Staines Lammas Park. The stated proportion of land that is absorbed by domestic dwellings tends to be housing with gardens forming suburbs to London and otherwise has mid rise urban town centres with exceptional offices (in Staines-upon-Thames) and apartments (in Sunbury-on-Thames) which are high rise, including
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1312-516: The neighbouring settlement of Wraysbury in the borough of Windsor and Maidenhead . In 2014 a campaign group of local business leaders called for the borough – along with others close to the capital – to be transferred from the county of Surrey to Greater London. The proposal was generally opposed by the public and was not pursued. Spelthorne Borough Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Surrey County Council . There are no civil parishes in
1353-459: The north side of Queen Mary Reservoir , water discharged from the reservoir enters the aqueduct at this point. The aqueduct continues across Ashford Common with a connection to Ashford Common water treatment works and then across Sunbury Common. From Sunbury Common the aqueduct changes direction to the north-east, it curves around the north side of Kempton Park race course with connections to Sunbury and Kempton Park water treatment works, and flows in
1394-719: The parish of Staines, otherwise in Stanwell. These would be pumped storage reservoirs to hold water abstracted from the Thames receiving it from an aqueduct, then delivering it by another to treatment works for their supply pipes. The three were the New River Company, the Grand Junction Water Company and the West Middlesex Water Company. To obtain full indemnity and a compulsory purchase standard mechanism they promoted
1435-485: The sites of special scientific interest (SSSI). Hospitality is widespread in the riverside towns. Sunbury and Staines town hubs are within 6 miles (10 km) of top UK attractions such as Windsor Castle, Thorpe Park, Hampton Court, Twickenham Rugby Stadium and Kew Gardens. Staines is the borough's main station, being served by South Western Railway services to London Waterloo , Reading and Windsor & Eton Riverside . A January 2005 enhanced base map study by
1476-659: The third, rugby union is played at the London Irish Hazelwood Centre sharing pitches with London Irish Amateur Rugby Football Club in Sunbury. Staines Rugby Club play next to the Feltham -Hanworth-Sunbury tripoint in Lower Feltham. Spelthorne has two football clubs – semi- or non-professional – as the top men's sides compete in the lower leagues: Spelthorne hosts one of
1517-602: The two have a 6- to 8-metre-deep puddle clay core having scoured out the surface gravel to the underlying London Clay. They have total capacity of 3,338 million gallons (15.175 million m ) and were completed in 1902. The valve towers are to the west. Later in the same year of building the three companies, and seven others, dissolved into the Metropolitan Water Board – under the Metropolis Water Act 1902 . The reservoirs are filled from
1558-595: The valve towers and delivered to the aqueduct to flow south-east to several water treatment works. The Metropolitan Water Board operated the reservoirs until the Board was abolished in 1974 under the provisions of the Water Act 1973 and ownership and control transferred to the Thames Water Authority , now Thames Water . In 1992 there was a proposal to increase the capacity of the reservoirs by raising
1599-670: The village of Shepperton but not in the other small villages which are connected by road and bus to the nearby towns. Kempton Park Racecourse and Shepperton Studios are in Spelthorne. Staines is the largest town and has local government and judicial buildings. Each of the towns has libraries and schools. In July 2017, Shepperton was named as the UK's most courteous town by the National Campaign for Courtesy. Notes References Staines Reservoirs The Staines Reservoirs are two large pumped storage reservoirs sitting to
1640-467: The west of the moor and the village is in Colne Valley regional park . Stanwell Moor is distinct from Stanwell , approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east. It is part of the same ward and ecclesiastical parish. The locality gained its main barrier from what had always been its village in the early 1960s, a dual carriageway, and it hived off shortly after with the building of a community hall and establishment of its own residents' association. It
1681-507: Was apartments was 22.6%. The proportion of households in the settlement who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free). [REDACTED] Media related to Stanwell Moor at Wikimedia Commons [REDACTED] Surrey portal Borough of Spelthorne Spelthorne