Real Estate Windsor

The task of buying property in the UK puts the buyer a choice. How to combine comfort and convenience of the big city and the comfort and Ocharovanie suburban life? Buying real estate in Windsor gives its buyer the chance to solve this problem. Also very close access to London, Windsor and its surrounding area have advantage of reasonable housing prices, and historical value of these places, no doubt, will allow you to proud of your city any owner of real estate in Windsor.

A bit of historical facts.

Windsor – the city and the area within the borough of Windsor in Berkshire in England. Windsor is widely known as the site of the famous Windsor castle, one of the official residences of the British Royal family.

The city is located to the West of London, 21 miles (34 km) from the station of Charing Cross, deep in the heart of London, where Trafalgarsky area. The city lies in close proximity to the South of the Thames, which the flexures separates Windsor from Eton. The village of Old Windsor Old Windsor is located just over 2 miles to the South-East, 300 years ago, it was called Windsor. And the city that is now called Windsor, previously called New Windsor and became the Windsor in 1974. Not to get confused in these names.

The early history of this place is unknown. The evidence that at the place where is now the Windsor, the people lived almost certainly appeared in many years before was built the medieval castle. Historians of the city say that the navigable river and the strategically placed hill point to the likelihood of continuous human settlement since the earliest times. As evidence of the archaeological finds from Windsor, such as Palaeolithic axes, Neolithic flint election, bronze swords and Iron age brooch. Although Roman ruins are almost lost in these places, there is sufficient evidence of the primitive Anglo-Saxon settlement in the area.

Windsor is first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. The name comes from the old English “Windles oran” – or “gate of the river “, it was formerly the Royal residence . Now this place is called Old Windsor, located about 3 miles (5 km) from the modern city. Windsor castle was built by William the Conqueror in honor of the decade of the Norman conquest in 1066. Some time after 1086, probably during the reign of king Henry I, the Royal family moved upstream to the new castle. This castle is located in the estate of Klewer and the first description of the castle were found in the “Book of doomsday”. There first occurs the name of “Windsor castle”. Later the castle became the seat of the military Council . And in 1121 Henry II combined here by marriage with his second wife Adeliza Livenskoy. Gradually, in the new part of the town transferred part of the old city. The city is expanding in this market and see the parish Church, roads, bridges and lepro -hospital. The castle takes on a new look – it is starting to be rebuilt, of stone. Windsor bridge, built early enough that it was not common for the time, played an important role in the national road system, linking London with the cities of reading and Winchester, which, respectively, contributed to the development of trade relations between these cities. Thanks to its excellent strategic location, the Windsor is becoming a large trading city, with its own Merchant fraternity. The merchants of Windsor jealously protect their rights and the rights of the city, protecting Windsor from the encroachments of merchants from other cities. Well-known fact was the attack of Windsor merchants on the merchants of Canton, who tried to establish their own rules on the territory of Windsor.

Windsor since its formation have had a privileged position compared to other cities. So, Windsor was released from the payment of substantial fees to the king that it was mandatory for all cities of England. For Windsor entrenched status of “free city”. In fact the official status of “Royal town” stuck in Windsor in 1277, which was enshrined in the Charter of King Edward I. However, this act Windsor having a lot of privileges not acquired new rights, but as a result, in the words of historians, “Windsor acquired the status as a geographical unit”. The city had its own organ of government could maintain order and to improve at the expense of their own resources.

To the significant events of those years also include the transfer of the city jail in the nearby city of reading. The transfer took place in connection with the unprecedented pressure from residents of Windsor, who were extremely dissatisfied with such close proximity with vulnerable members of society in the city, insisted on moving the prison.

In 1322 years, Windsor is considered one of the 50 richest cities in the country. Main revenues are coming from the market and from the endless influx of labor that serves the castle. Castle requires constant modernization, expansion and repair. The development of the castle are investing merchants, jewellers, winemakers. The construction contributes to the creation of jobs, the influx of people to Windsor. In the modernization of the Windsor castle during the reign of Edward III (1350-1368) invested the largest amount of money spent on secular projects of the English Kingdom after the construction of Westminster.

“Black death” plague covers England in 1348 and reduced the population of many cities of England almost doubled. But Windsor has suffered not so much – a third of the population lost city. Thanks to the construction boom, initiated by Edward III, the continuing inflow of workers and professionals from different parts of the country, the population of Windsor soon even doubled.

In 1412, the castle is visited by the head of the Holy Roman Empire Sigismund. Leaving Windsor, the Emperor leaves in the city heart of Saint George, the trophy of the Crusades. The heart was placed in the chapel, which was built in honor of the Saint in the period of rapid construction of Edward III, together with the relics of St. George. The reason for the visit important Imperial person was the day of St. George, which was considered the patron Saint of England.

Windsor continues to grow rapidly in the fifteenth century. At this time the city reached the pilgrims, mostly from London. The pilgrims went to touch the greatest Royal relics – the remains of the slain ГенрихаVI, the fragment of the True cross, the Royal visit to Eton College, dedicated to the blessed virgin Mary. The pilgrims came with large amounts of money that were deposited in the city Treasury. In this period, the city was built 29 hotels for guests. The city prospered.

In the XVI century, after the reformation, in Windsor, a period of stagnation. The castle is old-fashioned, and the worship of the remains of the dead is considered to be ignorance and superstition. The flow of tourists to the city is terminated, the city is in decline. In the descriptions of the city at that time said, the city’s many destroyed streets and squares, people living in poverty. Poor housing residents and the lack of municipal buildings – the characteristic sign of that time.

During this period in the city there are events described later by Shakespeare in his play “wives of Windsor”. The work is full of descriptions of places in various parts of the city and its suburbs.

During the civil War, Windsor was supported by a Parliamentary Republic and Windsor located troops of the Parliament. Parliamentary soldiers sacked the city and engaged in the desecration of shrines. The castle became a prison for the supporters of the king. Supporters of the monarchy attempted to storm the castle, but the capture attempt failed. In 1649, destroyed and desecrated the Church of St. George was interred after execution of Charles I.

New life comes at the decline of the Windsor, breathed by Queen Victoria, who settled in Windsor in 1840, and re-made Windsor a Royal residence. The Queen liked to take the Windsor European heads of state, Windsor has evolved from a shabby town in the centre of the British Empire. This period of the city was marked by sad events. The city had allowed the mass destruction of ancient monuments as a result of reconstruction and repair. Among other objects were demolished John the Baptist Church, 1180.

Today, Windsor is the world’s largest occupied castle, because he now is the current official residence of the Queen. This fact does not prevent the Windsor to combine daily Royal routine with the reception of thousands of tourists from all over the world. In 1994, in the rocks of the earth Windsor had discovered “black gold”. At the direction of Queen Elizabeth II studies have been conducted and discovered oil field, located right under the castle grounds, which cost more than £ 1 billion in the United Kingdom.

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