5025 x 3363 px | 42,5 x 28,5 cm | 16,8 x 11,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
27 février 2007
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Virginia Water is a large village, a lake and, originally, a stream, the village being in the borough of Runnymede in Surrey and the bodies of water stretching over the borders of Runnymede, Old Windsor and Sunninghill and Ascot, all in England. The village takes its name from the lake which is in the nearby Windsor Great Park. The lake's name was transferred from a previous stream which was probably named after the 'Virgin Queen', Elizabeth I.Virginia Water Lake lies within Windsor Great Park. It was created from a body of water of the same name: originally little more than a stream, which existed from at least the 17th century and may well be named after Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen. The lake is mostly in Surrey, though the western extremities are in the civil parishes of Old Windsor and Sunninghill and Ascot in Berkshire. Recently the shores of the lake have been used for lakeside scenes in the Harry Potter films.The lake is also the site of the British record Pike capture of 58lb 5oz. During World War II, the lake was drained, as its obvious shape provided enemy guidance at night to Windsor and other important military targets in the area. The village Virginia Water village has an adult population of 4, 814.[citation needed] The 2001 census population of Virginia Water was 6113. [1] The village's residents are more elderly and substantially more wealthy, on average, than the nation as a whole, making it one of the wealthiest locations in England.[citation needed] Many of the village's houses are large detached homes situated on the private Wentworth Estate close to the famous Wentworth Club which has four golf courses. The Ryder Cup was first played at Wentworth. Wentworth is also home to the headquarters of the PGA European Tour, the world's second-richest professional golf tour (after the PGA Tour)in the US. The estate reached the headlines in 1998 when General Augusto Pinochet was kept under house arrest in one of its houses prior to
