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VIDEO: Tina Thorburn’s round-up of work taking place on Surrey’s roads

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Tina Thorburn, from the county council’s highways team, rounds up the work taking place on Surrey’s roads.

Walton Bridge used by 30,000 vehicles every weekday

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With this month marking five years since work started to lay the foundations for the new Walton Bridge, it has been revealed that thousands more vehicles are using the structure than the crossing it replaced. Around 30,000 vehicles are using the £32 million bridge between Walton-on-Thames and Shepperton every weekday, which is 4,000 more than … Continue reading →

VIDEO: Earliest recorded reference to baseball features Prince of Wales

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The Prince of Wales played baseball in Ashley Park in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 1749, it has emerged. That is six years before William Bray described playing the game near Guildford in Surrey in a handwritten diary entry that has been verified as the earliest known manuscript reference to the game in the world. The latest discovery … Continue reading →

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