Is Egham as dead as it looks?

I wanted to go to Royal Holloway but Egham seems like there's literally nothing there. Are there other towns/cities closeby with more life

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Royal Holloway, University of London

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Original post by Anonymous

I wanted to go to Royal Holloway but Egham seems like there's literally nothing there. Are there other towns/cities closeby with more life

Hi there,

Thanks for your message.

Royal Holloway is close to the attractive village of Englefield Green and a ten-minute walk from the town of Egham. With fast rail connections, you have easy access to both Central London, with its wealth of entertainment, and some of the UK’s top sporting venues such as Wimbledon and Twickenham. The nearby towns of Staines, Windsor, Richmond and Kingston provide shopping, eating out, theatre and cinema experiences while the sprawling parklands of Windsor Great Park and Virginia Water give you plenty of space to clear your head and be inspired.

Central London is just 40 minutes away by train while one of the country's biggest theme parks, Thorpe Park, is just 4.5 miles away. There's also plenty of choice in shopping and restaurants in the many local towns including Windsor, Staines, Reading and Kingston.

Discover more about student life and our local area here: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/student-life/our-campus/the-local-area/.

We hope this helps.

Best wishes,

Royal Holloway, University of London

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Reply 2

volgorechensk

☹️ Sounds pretty dead.

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Royal Holloway, University of London

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Original post by volgorechensk

☹️ Sounds pretty dead.

Hi there,

You may find it helpful to chat with a current student to find out more about their experience of Royal Holloway, student life and the local area.

Best wishes,
Royal Holloway, University of London

Reply 4

Filthy Communist

Original post by volgorechensk

☹️ Sounds pretty dead.

I'm a current student here. It's not at all dead! There's a chicken shop at the bottom of the hill. There's a pub owned by the student union that is both pretty mediocre, and also expensive for the area. There's the student union club that three people go to, other than Fetish Friday being the best zoo in England. I say England instead of Britain because nothing will beat a flat roofed pub in Glasgow on a Friday night.

Jokes aside, it's not a bad area. If you don't like big cities, you can do worse than Egham, but there's not really anything of note here. It would actually be pretty good as a place to focus on grinding for your degree, because the library is nice and there's a great view of the founders building so you get to feel like you're at a proper university without being smart enough to go to Oxbridge, but unfortunately they let 6th formers into the library who don't understand the concept of a silent study, so unlucky.