This is the track of the Chertsey Grand Prix. Chertsey is one of the oldest towns in britain for its abbey, cricket club and thorpe park.
Famous people who lived here include Justin Hawkins, lead singer of The Darkness rock group, singer-songwriter Doug Walker and England cricketer Ashley Giles were born in Chertsey in the 1970s. Keith Moon, drummer with rock band The Who, lived in the town in that decade. Vivian Stanshall and his wife Ki Longfellow lived on a houseboat moored on the Thames beginning in 1977. Their daughter, Silky Longfellow-Stanshall was born in Chertsey's St Peter's Hospital (UK) in 1979. England and West Ham United footballer Robert Green was born in Chertsey in 1980.
The final series of the TV Series Public Eye was filmed in and around Chertsey.