Bill Busbridge

Bill Busbridge (31 January 1885 – 12 June 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the early days of the Victorian Football League (VFL). A centre half back and part-time ruckman, he was also known by his nickname "Buzzy".

He was a premiership player with the Essendon in 1911 when they beat Collingwood by a single goal.

After debuting at the age of 16, Busbridge went on to win back-to-back Best and Fairests in 1908 and 1909.

He represented Victoria in the inaugural Australasian Football championships in Melbourne, in August 1908.

A knee injury forced him to retire prematurely in 1912.

In 2002 an Essendon panel chose him at 14th in their "Champions of Essendon" selection.

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Busbridge

Coordinates: 51°10′25″N 0°35′59″W / 51.173714°N 0.599672°W / 51.173714; -0.599672

Busbridge is a village and civil parish in the borough of Waverley in Surrey, England that adjoins the town of Godalming. It forms part of the Waverley ward of Bramley, Busbridge and Hascombe. It was until the Tudor period often recorded as Bushbridge and was a manor and hamlet of Godalming until gaining an ecclesiastical parish in 1865 complemented by a secular, civil parish in 1933. Gertrude Jekyll lived at Munstead Wood in the Munstead Heath locality of the village. Philip Carteret Webb and Chauncy Hare Townshend, the government lawyer/antiquarian and poet respectively owned its main estate, Busbridge House, the Busbridge Lakes element of which is a private landscape garden and woodland that hosts a wide range of waterfowl.

The parish covers northern, heavily wooded foothills of the Greensand Ridge and drains separately to east and west into tributaries of the Wey. It has no railways or dual carriageways, however the nearest stations are on the Portsmouth Direct Line 2 miles (3.2 km) away.