WEYBRIDGE  , an

urban district in the Chertsey parliamentary division of Surrey, England; 19 m . W.S.W. from London by the London & South-Western railway . Pop . (19o1) 5329 . It lies in the flat valley of the river Wey, I m. above its junction with the Thames . The river is locked up to Godalming, and navigation is assisted by cuts . Weybridge has grown in modern times out of a village into a residential town . The church of St James is modern but contains numerous ancient memorials, and one by Sir F . Chantrey for the duchess of York (d . 182o), daughter of Frederick William II. of Prussia, to whose memory there is also a column on Weybridge Green . The summit of this column is that which formerly stood at Seven Dials, London . The Roman Catholic chapel of St Charles Borromeo was the burial-place of Louis Philippe, ex-king of the French (d .

1850), who resided at

Claremont in the neighbouring parish of Esher; his queen and other members of his family; but their bodies were subsequently removed to Dreux in Normandy . To the east of Weybridge lies Henry VIII.'s park of Oatlands (see WALTON-oN-THAMES) . In 1907 the Brooklands racing track for motor-cars was opened near Weybridge . It has a circuit of 2g M. round the inner edge, and including the straight finishing track is 3; m. in total length; its maximum width is loo ft., and at the curves it is banked up to a maximum height of 28 ft . 8 in .