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SANDHURST

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 140 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SANDHURST , a See also:

town in the See also:Wokingham See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Berkshire, See also:England, 9 M. N. of See also:Aldershot. Pop. (1901) 2386. Two See also:miles See also:south-See also:east of the town, near the villages of See also:Cambridge Town and See also:York Town, and the railway stations of See also:Blackwater and Camberley on the South-Eastern and See also:Chatham and South-Western lines, is the Sandhurst Royal Military See also:College. It was settled here in 1812, having been already removed by its founder, the See also:duke of York, from High See also:Wycombe, where it was opened in 1799, to See also:Great See also:Marlow in 1802. It stands in beautiful grounds, which contain a large See also:lake. See also:Wellington College station on the South-Eastern See also:branch See also:line to See also:Reading, near Sandhurst itself, serves Wellington College, one of the See also:principal See also:modern public See also:schools of England, founded in memory 3 These were separated by See also:Bonaparte (Comptes rendus, xlii. p. 88o) as a distinct genus, Pteroclurus, which later authors have justly seen no See also:reason to adopt. of the great duke of Wellington, 4nd incorporated in 1853. Its See also:primary See also:object was the See also:education of the sons of deceased See also:army See also:officers. In the vicinity is Broadmoor See also:Prison for criminal lunatics.

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