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The Wentworth Estate is a 1920s development village of houses, shops and restaurants on an area of 700 hectares (1750 acres) around the world famous Wentworth Club in Virginia Water , Surrey , England . It encompasses one of Europe 's premier residential areas.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/6368743.stm HISTORY The 19th-century house the ''"Wentworths"'' (now the club house for the Wentworth Club ) was the home for the brother-in-law of the Duke Of Wellington . It was purchased in 1850 by exiled Spanish count Ramon Cabrera, who after his death his wife bought up the surrounding lands to make the full Wentworth Estate.http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info/cgi-bin/anw/fulldesc_nofr?inst_id=38&coll_id=3174&expand= In 1912, builder W.G. Tarrant had started developing St George's Hill , Weybridge - a development of houses based on minimum one-acre plots based around a golf course. In 1922 Tarrant acquired the development rights for the Wentworth Estate, getting H.S. Colt to develop a golf course around the ''"Wentworth"'' house. Tarrant developed the large houses on the estate to a similar Surrey formula used at St George's Hill - tall chimneys, Dormer windows, Gable s, leaded lights, tile-hung or half-timbered or a combination of both; most using hand-made bricks and tiles. Some houses had stonework round the front door and stone fireplaces, a few had a marble floor in the hall, and the rarest – of which he was most proud – had a stone tablet with his initials WGT.http://www.achome.co.uk/biographies/wgtarrant.htm Development of Wentworth Estate ground to a halt due to Depression in the late 1920s, and in 1931 when the banks asked for repayment of a large debenture, Tarrant was forced to declare Bankruptcy . The ownership of the land passed to Wentworth Estates Ltd, which came under the control of Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Co Ltd. Construction picked up in the late 1930s, with many houses built by Tarrant Builders Ltd, with Tarrant's son Percy as one of the directors; but again stopped during World War II when the need arose to build high-density housing close to Virginia Water Railway Station .http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/62/a6093362.shtml Post-war development picked up considerably, and by 1960 most of the available land was already utilised. TODAY In 1962, a committee of residents and the company promoted a private Act Of Parliament , and on 31 July the Wentworth Estate Act was given Royal Assent . The Act established the Wentworth Estate Roads Committee, which appoints its members on advice from the Wentworth Residents' Association.http://www.wentworthestate.org.uk/site/history.php Today the Wentworth Estate covers 700 hectares (1750 acres), and encompasses one of Europe's premier residential areas. Within the estate borders are a mixture of both public and private roads, footpaths and open areas as well as the village shops, restaurants and other amenities.http://www.wentworthestate.org.uk/site/introduction.php The River Bourne runs through the area. The village lies within the census area ''Virginia Water'' which has a population of 5,895. Census data TRANSPORT Wentworth is just outside the ring of the M25 near to the M3 . It is served by two railway stations, Virginia Water and Longcross . RESIDENTS The estate hit the headlines in 1998 when former Chile an president General Augusto Pinochet was kept under house arrest in one of its houses prior to his extradition.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/225567.stmhttp://www.londonnet.co.uk/ln/talk/news/pinochet_archive.html
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