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__NOTOC__ Hinchley Wood is a largely residential suburban village approximately 12.3 to 13.4 miles south-west of Charing Cross in central London, and within the Greater London Urban Area. It developed largely because of the railway line which has a station and many of its residents are commuters to London, the village has one main parade of convenience shops, services and a nearby petrol station; throughout the area is a light smattering of small businesses. The suburb is served by a railway station, and has the London dialling code 020. In 1999, Hinchley Wood residents took on McDonald's to defeat a plan to turn one of its few pubs into a fast-food outlet. In 1997, the pub had earlier provided a historical footnote when former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, visited it when their flight home to Russia was delayed. The longest dual carriageway section of the A309 bisects the district as well as the railway line, and acts as a spur road to the urban motorway standard A3 road. The main parade is directly north of the traffic lights forming one of the junctions of the road within the boundaries, and almost adjoins the mainstay of the village's retirement flats. The village has no high-rise buildings and gained its first place of worship in 1953 (see villages in England for this standard definition). ==History== The only old listed building is the 16th century Old Farm House in the town. Its listing states '... C16 with C18 addition to front left, C19 addition to right. Timber framed core, stuccoed over with plain tiled roofs. Large brick stack to rear and ends. 2 storeys with 2 tripartite wood casements to centre of first floor...'〔(National Heritage List online edition accessed 16-04-2012 )〕 and is now on an ordinary street. Initially the farmland on which Hinchley Wood was to be built was part of Thames Ditton. In 1925 Esher Council considered a petition from the small number of residents of Manor Road, in which ribbon development from Thames Ditton was taking place, for the provision of a new station between Surbiton and Claygate on the railway that had opened in 1885. The Southern Railway was not interested in a new station; the low population would create negligible new custom; the opening of the Kingston Bypass changed the commercial viability of new station. Immediately the speculative possibilities created by the bypass were considered. Furthermore, even as it was being built a sewer was laid under it, at Manor Road, to facilitate development. The opening of Hinchley Wood railway station brought about the rapid emergence of Hinchley Wood as a coherent, identifiable settlement, with a housing stock so plainly superior to that typical of the 1930s. At its annual general meeting in 1927, the chairman called attention to “great increment in the value of the land, which goes into the pockets of vigilant people at our expense”. G.T. Crouch agreed to contribute £2,500 towards the cost (about one-third) of the building of the station. Having been given planning permission to build Hinchley Wood in September 1929, Crouch struck a deal with the Southern Railway for the construction of the station. In order to persuade the Southern Railway to build it, Crouch had to help pay for it. Although the Southern Railway knew that a new settlement would bring new business, it also knew the benefit to Crouch. The Inland Revenue had large offices on the north side of the railway station that have become a housing development. In 1953, the community's church in the Church of England, St. Christophers Church was built. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hinchley Wood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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