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• DIRECTORY.] KINGSTON-t1PON'-THA'MES • 1341 SURREY. ....... Stratton,Gentry & Co. coal merchants, Tuckwo:ld Amos, refreshment rooms, Weaver William & Son, locksmiths, 2 Kew Gardens station Boat house, Riverside, Kew green Alexander terrace, Sandycombe road Sydenham Henry,shopkeeper,3 Queen's Twinn James, fruiterer & florist, I Williams Ellen (Mrs. ),laundress,2 Pond cottages, Sandyeombe road Cumberland place, Richmond road eottages, .Kew green Taylor John, baker, Kew green Viner George, boot maker, 2 Waterloo WilliamsGeorge, bo!Lt builder & refresh Temperance Hall & Mission Room,next place, Kew green ment house, Flora house, Kew green 10 Cumberland place, Richmond rd Wade Caroline (Mrs.), laundry, 3 Pond Wilson Ralph Wm. M.D., c.M. physician, Tiller Lewis,shopkeeper, Waterloo place, cottages, Kew green Aden house, Ennerdale road Kew green Wallington Mary (Mrs.), green.,o-rocer, Wingrove James, grocer & beer retailer, Timms Charlotte (Miss), confectioner,6 Kew Green road I r Queen's cottages, Sandycot'nb8' rd & 7 Gloucester row, Richmond road Ward Jane (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, Witton Sargent, architect &c, r4 'Oo.m Torry Elizabeth (Mrs.), post mistress, Sandycombe road berland place, Richmond road Post office, Kew green Warner HarryE. prof. of music, TheAven Young Harriet(Mrs.),gro.Sandyemf>.rd Turner William, tea rooms, Kew green • • 1\ IN GS'rO.S- UPON -T~A ~IES, • INCLUDING NORBITON. KINGSTON-oN-THAMES, the "Cingstune "of the chroniclers, of the base bear the names and dates ol the kings crowned is a market, union and corporate town, parish, head of here, a silver penny of each reign let into the stone. King petty sessional division and county court district, in the John had a palace here. Henry Ill. took the castle from Kingston division of the county, Kingston hundred, under Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester, in 1264; Catherine of Aragon the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan police, and in the rural rested a night at Kingston on her way from Portsmouth, deanery and archdeaconry of Kingston and diocese of 1501; Sir Thomas Wyat, in 1554, crossed the Thames at Rochester, 12 miles from London Bridge by road, 12 miles this spot after a brief encounter, and marched on London from Hyde park corner, over Putney bridge and 12 from the by Brentford; · in July, 164R, the last fight between the terminus to Waterloo by the South Western railway; it had Ron.lists and Roundheads took place here, when Lord a wooden bridge over the Thames in 1224 ; the existing Holland and the Duke of Buckingham were defeated in Sur bridge, a beautiful structure of stone of five arches, con biton lane. The prosperity of the tOwn was considerably necting it with Hampton Wick, in Middlesex, was completed increased by the residence of Henry VIII. and succeeding in 1827, at an expense of £4o,ooo, and is now toll free. The kings at Hampton Court, on the opposite bank of the river. Hogg's Mill river rises near Ewell and runs through the The archdeaconry of Kingston, taken from that of South town into the Thames, working several mills in its course. wark, was constituted in 1879, and comprises the deaneries The Hampton Court branch of the South Western railway of Barnes, Beddington, Godstone, Kingston and Reigate. diverges here, having an intermediate station at Thames The parish church of All Saints is a building of stone in Ditton. The Kingston line, joining at Twickenham the the Pointed style, consisting of chancel, nave and a central Windsor branch of the London and South Western, has a tower with pinnacles containing 10 bells : in the chancel are station at the north end of the town called "Kingston numerous monuments, including one with a sitting effigy, station ; " this line is carried through the lower part of ·the life size, by Chantrey, to Louisa Theodora (Hervey), wife of town to New Maiden, where it joins the main line, on which Robert. 2nd Earl of Liverpool, d. 1821; an altar tomb with is the Surbiton and Kingston station. The approach by alabaster effigy to Sir Anthony Benn, knighted at Hyde the North London line 1s through Gunnersbury, Richmond, park, 15 Sept. 1617, and sometime recorder of London, d. Teddington and Hampton Wick, trains proceeding directly 29 Sept. 1618 ; and a monument by Ternough, Chantrey's from this station to Ludgate hill by the London, Chatham pupil to H. Davidson, d. 1827: here are also four brasses, and Dover line, as well as to Moorgate street by Richmond, mduding one in the chancel to Robert Skerne. of Down Kew Gardens and Hammersmith, and to the Mansion House Hall, and his wife Joan, a daughter of Alice Perrers, mistress station by Richmond. ' of Edward Ill. ; another to Mark Snellinge, nine times A new line from Putney to Kingston and Surbiton, con bailiff of Kingston, ob. 1633 ; and a third with inscription to tinuing thence to Cobham and Guildford, was completed.in the ten children of Edmund Staunton D. D. who was minister 188g. here under the Commonwealth and President of Corpus Kingston obtained a charter of privilege from King John Christi college, Oxford, and to Mary (Balthorp) his wife: in 1209, which is still in perfect preservation and this was there are other memorials to Thomas Cranmer M. D. d. 1748 ; confirmed by successive kings down to James II.; from John Cranmer, d. 1723; Thomas Agar. mayor and twelve 1311 to 1374 the town returned members to Parliament. times bailiff of Kingston, d. 1703; George Bate H.D., F.R.s. The Corporation consists of a mayor, eight aldermen and physician to Charles I. CroQlwell and Charles II. ob. 19 twenty-four councillors; each of the four wards into which April, 1668, and some monuments to the Hayward family, the town is divided returning six members. Norbiton and 1655 and to that of Morton: here also is buried the Right Kingston hill are within the municipal limits. The Corpor Hon. Sir Robert Grabam, baron of the Exchequer, d. 1836: ation also acts as the Urban Sanitary Authority. The there are two piscinre, and the windows contain some goOd borough has a commission of the peace and a separate court modern stained glass : the church was restored in :raB7-8, of quarter sessions. under the d1rection of J. L. Pearson esq. A.R.I.B.A.; new The town is lighted with gas and is supplied with water transepts were built and the roofs and windows of the f·rom works situated at Seething Wells, the property of the aisles renewed with other improvements, the total cost Lambeth Water Works Co. The works, established in 1888, amounting to £9,000: there are 1,2oo sittings, 400 being for the purification and utilization of the sewage of the free. The register dates from the rear I56o; and there are . district, including Kingston, Surbiton and Hampton Wick, churchwardens' and chamberlains books fr.Jm the time of are in the Lower Ham road : the sewage, formerly dis Henry VII. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent charged directly into the Thames, is now passed through charge £227, net yearly value £46o, with residence, in the tanks and treated by the Native Guano Company's A B C gift of King's C'J01lege, Cambridge, and held since 1877 by process ; the eftluent water being discharged into the river the Rev. Albert Stewart Winthrop YoungM.A. late fellow of in a clear purified state and the deposit dried and sold as that college, rural dean of Kingston and surrogate. "Native Guano." St. John the Evangelist's is an ecclesiastical parish formed Kingston appears to have been long a place of some May 6th, 1873 : the church, situated in Spring grove, is a consequence and owed its early importance to the ford structure of Kentish rag, with Bath stone dressings, in the and afterwards to the bridge, which here crossed the Early English style, and consists of apsidal chancel, nave, Thames into Middlesex. The authentic notices of King aisles, transepts and south porch, and occupies a site given ston commence with the coronation here of Athelstan, by the late W. Mercer esq. of Surbiton ·in 1872 (the tower in 924 ; and subsequently of Edmund, 940 ; Edred, 946 ; and spire are not yet built) ; the cost of building was about · Edgar, 959 ~ Edward the Martyr, 975; Ethelred II. 978; £7,000: theta are 770 sittings, 100 being free. The regis and Edmund Ironside, 1016: an earlier king, Edward the ter dates from the ~ear 1873. :fhe living is a vicarage, Elder, goo, is sometimes included in this list, but without yearly value about £250, derived from pew-rents, in the authority from the chronicle: probably, however, Edwy, gift of five trustees, and held since 1872 by the Rev. Arnold 955, should be added; the Coronation Stone, on which at Letchworth M. A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The population least seven Saxon monarchs sat during the ceremony of in 1881 was 3,017. their coronation, formerly at the church, is now fixed on St Peter'sf NoRBITO'f, is an ecclesiastical parish formed a granite base in front of the Court house and surrounded October t1th, 1842, out bf Kipgston parish: the church, by an iron railing, designed by Mr. Davis; the seven sides erected at a cost of £4,eeo; is an edifice of grey brick with • .