Staines Rugby Football Club plays at The Reeves ground in Snakey Lane.

Staines Boat Club is situated on the river and competes at an international level.

Staines Swimming Club founded in the early 1900s and affiliated to the Amateur Swimming Association is based at Spelthorne Leisure Centre and provides competitive swimming from inter-club level up to national level.

Both Bill Staines, who grew up in Lexington, and Bonnie Raitt, who attended college in Cambridge, were influenced by the folk revival through the concerts at Club 47.

It is a social club run by and for members of seven rowing clubs on the Thames ( the " Founding Clubs "): Kingston Rowing Club, London Rowing Club, Molesey Boat Club, Staines Boat Club, Thames Rowing Club, Twickenham Rowing Club and Vesta Rowing Club.

* Staines Boat Club

A public consultation resulted in two to one approval, but there were some public objections, including from the Staines football team which attempted to present 134 signatures to the council but they were not received.

Other sports which were once held in Staines but are no longer to be found there include: boxing ( there were weekly programmes off the High Street in the 1930s, and local hearsay suggests bare-knuckle events were held at the Crooked Billet earlier in the 20th century ); wrestling ( bouts were included in boxing programmes of the last 1930s ); motorcycle football ( a club existed in the 1960s ; and American football ( a short-lived team called Staines Removers entered the Budweiser League in 1988, but failed to start the season, although they did play some friendly matches at their base on The Lammas ).

However in October 2011 Wandsworth Council proposed a revised plan called Airtrack-Lite, which would provide trains from Waterloo to Heathrow via the same proposed spur from Staines to Heathrow, but by diverting or splitting current services the frequency of trains over the existing level crossings would not increase.

The A4 Great West Road joins with the A3006 Bath Road ( from the A315 ) before Henlys Roundabout which is in Hounslow West from which a WNW route passes London Heathrow Airport, terminals 1 to 3 and terminal 5 as the Bath Road and a WSW route, the A30, passes terminal 4, bypasses Staines and reaches the M25 ; the remainder is for the mostpart a minor route to Land's End, Cornwall.

Water is supplied via the Staines Aqueduct from the King George VI Reservoir and Staines Reservoirs which receive their input from the River Thames at Hythe End, just above Bell Weir Lock.

A charter of Henry II gives the name as Hestune, meaning " enclosed settlement ", which is justified by its location in what was the Warren of Staines, between the ancient Roman road to Bath, and the Uxbridge Road to Oxford.

He has also bought all available real estate in Staines in the knowledge that the town is to be destroyed to make way for a new terminal for Heathrow Airport, which will make him super wealthy.

The village lies within the historic boundaries of Middlesex and from 1930 formed part of the Staines Urban District which was transferred to Surrey in 1965.

Shepperton was a parish in the Staines Rural District ( and Middlesex which had a county council from 1896 ) from 1889 to 1930, when it became part of the Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District.

Listed in the same category of listed building is St Mary's Church here, which bears the dedication of St Mary as with the ancient riverside churches of Staines, Sunbury and Hampton ; also Grade II * is restored half timbered Winches Cottage on the west side of the lane which is 17th century.

It transpires that Staines and Nantwich are collaborating on the production of a pornographic film in which Abdul and the two youths are performing.

In his studies of medieval literature Staines has examined the evolution of romance traditions, which resulted in a landmark new translation of the classic tales of Chrétien de Troyes: The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes ( 1990 ).

In May of that year, Chloe Staines left the band, for reasons which are unclear.

In 1848 before Riverside station opened, the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway had been incorporated into the London and South Western Railway ( LSWR ), which ran the services until 1923 when, under the railway grouping of the Railways Act 1921, the LSWR became part of the Southern Railway.

The Urban Districts of Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames, which in 1974 were merged to form the Borough of Spelthorne remained and have formed the modern Spelthorne constituency ever since.

The emails, which had been sent from the Downing Street Press Office, found their way to Paul Staines, who brought them to the attention of the media.

The school is located near Staines, which has a cinema, shops, as well as a train station.

He was picked to head the inquiry into the Staines air disaster in 1972, and concluded that the underlying cause was an undiagnosed heart condition of the pilot which impaired his judgement, coupled with the pilot's known bad temper which led to his junior crew being unwilling to challenge him.

Colloquially, Staines remains associated with the former, historical, or geographic county of Middlesex, through its cultural and sporting affiliations, and the form of mail addressing preferred by the Post Office ( officially the use of a county on postal addresses was phased out over the period 1996-2000, but is still widely used in practice ).

* It was also used in the small British play A Well Respected Man, written and starring Rachel Sodah, Nicola Sewell and Benjamin Feist of Staines, England.

" Staines Morris " is the only actual folk tune used in the work.

It was used by the former Uxbridge and Staines services.

Staines Town play at the newly rebuilt Wheatsheaf Park ground and have recently been promoted to the Conference South.

Talking with Staines, he discovers that he and Charles have produced three pornographic films of the type that play in the cinema where Will first had sex with Phil.

After a three year break from teaching she took a job at Matthew Arnold School, Staines, where she taught English and history, coached hurdling and wrote the annual school play until her retirement to Corfe Mullen, Dorset in 1961.

Sutton finished fifth in their first season back in the Isthmian League Premier Division and 2nd the following season, losing in both seasons play off semi finals to Staines Town and Kingstonian respectively.

Ali G is a fictional gang member of the " West Staines Massif ", who currently lives with his grandmother in a semi-detached house at 36 Cherry Blossom Close, in the heart of the " Staines Ghetto ".

Evidence of neolithoic settlement has been found at Yeoveney, on Staines Moor.

There has been a crossing of the River Thames at Staines since Roman times.

The name Staines comes from the Old English, meaning " place at the stone ".

Sir Thomas More was tried in 1535 in a Staines public house, to avoid the outbreak of plague in London at that time.

The town was the site of the Staines air disaster in 1972, at the time the worst air crash in Britain until the Lockerbie disaster of 1988.

( Since the Lockerbie crash was a terrorist act in Scotland, the Staines crash remains England's worst air disaster, and Britain's worst air accident ). The crash was commemorated in June 2004, with the opening of a dedicated garden near the crash site, created at the request of relatives, and the unveiling of a stained glass window at St. Marys Church, where a memorial service was held.

Until the 14th century Staines was the tidal limit, now downstream at Teddington.

Events in 1938 and 1939 are well known but it is possible that a venue was active from at least 1931 as a team named Staines raced at Caxton Speedway ( near Cambridge 1931-1933 inclusive ).

* Danny Blanchflower, former captain of Tottenham Hotspur F. C., was living at Woodlands Nursing Home, Rookery Road, at the time of his death in 1993, having lived at a private address in Staines in the immediately preceding years

The earliest known major crossings of the Thames by the Romans were at London Bridge and Staines Bridge.

Positioned on the Bath Road ( where it forks to the Staines Road at the Bell Inn ), Hounslow was centred around Holy Trinity Priory founded in 1211.