The founder of Whiteley Village was born in Yorkshire to a prosperous corn dealer. William Whiteley travelled as a young man to London for the Great Exhibition of 1851, an inspiration for him.

Whiteley Village and William Whiteley. Sunday 8 October 2006 14:45-15:00 (Radio 4 FM) David McKie explores some of Britain's most evocative spots and their local heroes.

Retail companies opening new stores at a rebuilt shopping centre in Hampshire have been overwhelmed with people hunting for jobs, recruitment consultants said.

Charitable retirement area Whiteley Village has no fewer than eight centenarians. And the village itself, set in 225 acres of land in the Surrey countryside, turns 100 next year. Experts there ...

Women in a Surrey retirement village are living years longer than even the wealthiest who live elsewhere, new research has found. Humans have pondered the secret to longer life for centuries and ...

About 2,000 people turned up at a recruitment event for the 1,000 jobs on offer at the revamped Whiteley Village, near Fareham, in March. The centre has been redesigned after an earlier version ...

RESIDENTS of Whiteley retirement village near Weybridge had a visit from a special guest on Friday when Prince Charles joined them for a cup of tea. The Prince of Wales, ...

THE multi-million pound redevelopment of a Hampshire shopping centre is set to be completed by Christmas 2012. Plans to redevelop the Whiteley Village retail centre were approved by Winchester ...

It was one of the first shops to open in the new town of Whiteley, at the original outlet centre Whiteley Village in 1999, and it was the only store to transfer to the new shopping centre when it ...

Whiteley Village176 all out Southbank 177-3 (Whiteley Village loss) WHITELEY Village suffered another defeat on Saturday when they were beaten by Southbank in the Fuller’s Surrey League Division ...