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DIRECTORY.] SURREY. EPSOM. 16 t EPSOM (o,iginn.lly "F.bbuham ") deri"ed iUi name from . of £.~. GOO. It bas two rnortua.ry ch1'pel~. nnd is under the St. Ebba, n Xorthumbrinn princess, and is a pa:i~h nnd mnrket 1control o[ the Uroan Diatiict Council. acting a! a llurial town n.nd tho h1;ad or ~ petty scssional dh·ision, union 1111d Roard. The Pul.rlic Hnll nnd •.\ ssembly Rooms, erected in t.01111t.y court di~trict, delightfully situn.l.ed on tho weatcrn l 1883, at n. cost of £4,000, is of red hrirk n11d tcrra cotta, in the verge of Uansk\ad Downs, 011 the main road fronr London to' Cl:u;sio style, from design$ by llfr. J. lln.tchard Smit.II A.R .l.B.A. Dorking, Horsh:un, Guildford nnd \Vorl11ing, with stations l of Epeom : it contairn1 a lArge hall, 68 by 40 feet., nnd 011 the London, lliighLon and South Co1\.<t, Sont.h \V~tern ond Iabou t 30 feet high, with o ,t.lp:e and dre5Sing r<X'mo : there South F:ruitern nnd Chatham rnilw:i.ys, nod iA 15 milcs south- a.re nlso club and reading rooms, and n lecture room, •rn by 38 we,;f.by-~outh from Lomlon by roaJ, 17 by tho llr·ii;hton 111\d [eet, and nbout 15 feet high: thl' lrnll wa.s opened Tuc~d1~y, South Coast railwny, and .al.rout· 14 by the South Wcstci:n, JG f April 3, ISS:l, by the R!"rl of Eipnoot, and wi!J bold 800 miles north-east from Guildford, 9 north-west uom Re1gat.e, perllODS. In 1006 alterations and 11nprovcment.s were mnde !J south-west from Croydon 1md i 50uth from Kingston, in at a cost of over .£3.()()(). The Technical Institute and Art tho ;\lid di"ision of the county, first division of the hundred School, also designed by Mr. J. Hat.chard Smith. is in the oi Copthorne. rnral dcantry of Lcnt.hcrh<»ad, nrchdeaco11ry Renainancc.> style, and wa.s opened by the Earl of Rosebery of Sor·rcy and diocese of Winchcst.flr. The town is lighted io IS9i; on tho ground floor are teclrnical clas.~ rooms, aod with gas from works the property or the Epsom And Ewell 011& on tho first Ooor fully equipped nrt school. There &re Company, formed in 1~39, 11 nd also with the ell'Ctric light from I branches here of t.he London and County llnnking Company works in Church street: it hos a constant supply of water Lim. and the Ca.pita! 11nd Countica Bunk. Brick making irom works the propert.y of the Council, situated at F.:1at and bre.. fog are carried on lu~re, n.nd there arc ulso nurscr.v street, l\nd there nrc twe> lllrgl' reservoirs on tho Downs: the grounds. The mllt'ket day is Wednesday, and a pleasure water is of supNfor qualify, but. has nbout 23 dcg1·f'Cl\ of ho.rd- (:l days) foir commences on tho 25th ,July. The old ness, 1.1.risi ng fron1 the ~ hulk hdd irl solution. '.rh13 town is Aa~cmblv Rooms, in which balls were hPld in t.ht" Stuort effectually dr11.i11cd and the sewage is deodorised and other· period, now form part of Waterloo House, High street. In ";se disposro of ou an irrigation ground (p.vt of Rpwm the centre of the High street is a cl<><'k tower with an open Court fa.rm), a portion being pnmp1:d up to higher land and cupola containing one bell. rc-wrned !.Jy grnvito.f.ivn ; the effiu<'llt, b,v monns uf a system The former celebrity of E[l80lll wns due to its medicinal oi <leep a.ud surfnce drainage, i$ lar~cly puri6od, a.nd nms into Rpringii, situa.tod l mile west o( the town nnd discovered in the Hogs Mill river, by which it is dischnJ-ged into the Thames 1618 by one Henry Wirkor; the wnter wa.a at first used at Kingston. The uir of Epwm i$ \'ery 6alubriou.' ; put of ' externally, aod its purgative propertic-.a were not l\SC('rtained t.he town lies in a nnt.ur"I !.Jnsin, but. tho: upper portion pos.'ICeScs I till about 1630; modern analyses hnve shown that one gallon fine downs, almost entirely open to the sea on the south side, II cont.Aina 480 grll.ins of calcn.reous nitre, but. pure Epsom salt~ and the fomp<'r·aturo is thu ~ agrooably vu.riNi. It was con- conttLin 5ll partl! of su!phurio Reid and 4l of magnesia, forming ;tit.uted a Loon.I Go"crnment District 19 i\Iru-. 1800, under j sulphate of m&gnesia : in tho reign of Q11f'cn F.liu.bet.h the the provisions of the "Public Rea.Uh Act·, 1848" (11 and 12 . springs were much frequented by the counf.ry people, and \Tiet c. 63), and the government of the town vested in an Urban ' in the time of Charles I. the salts they produced were so cele Dist.l'iet Council of 9 members, formed under the provisions i br&.ted as to sell a.t 6s. per ounce : about 1690 a large concourse of the " Local Govcriunent Act, 1894" (56 nntl 67 Viet, c. of 'tisitors flocked hither, including members of t·he nobility, i3); the number of members was incrensed to 12 in 1903. The wi th their families, and numerous foffigncrs; and the place church of St. Martin is of brick and flint with Bath became for a while a highly fasbionnble centre, and developed st-0nc dressings, in the Gothic style: it w 1111 rebuilt. with every kind of popular amusement: in 1720 tho wells were in t.hc exception of the t.owcr, in 1824, n.t n cost of £7 ,000, t.heir greatest splendour, hut in 1804 the house At the old wells ... nd ha.a a tower "~th spire containing a clock &nd 8 bells : I was pulled down: a new mansion was ercctOO. on its site in &he sta.ined east window was erocted in 1893 : there is a monu- I 1885 by the late Jnmea Stu~rt Strange esq. ment, by Fla.xmon , to th<1 P.ev. John Parkhu~t Y.A. Fellow I The great modern celebrit,v of f:psom is derived fronr its of Clare College, Ca.mbridgc, the loxicos;raphor, who dit.'<l races, which appear to have originated in the year l':ll, here 21 l\Inrch, 17!17, and others to the Belfield, Warre and although the pastime of horse ra.cinp:, nccording to a paasa~e Evelyn familic.~: the oldest memorial is a br88S with the in I..ord Clarendon's "History of tho Rebellion," existed m no.me of Marston, d11ted 1511: in 1907-1908, the old and this neighbourhood in the da't'S of Cbnrl1'S J. The "0Aks " small chnncel wa.s demolished and a new chn.ncel and part of stakM, for three-year-old fillies, were instituted in lii!l by a. new 1tnve, with "estries, erected at a cost of £10,000: the Ed1vtu'd, 12th Earl of Derby, and no.med after hi ~ hunting-box new work is of stone, in the Gothic style: there are now 950 at Woodma.nsterne: in tl1e following year ho in•tit.uted the siUings. The church was wholly closed t-0 interments Sept. famouA " Derby" stakCll, for threc-yea.c-old colt.s, and from !!:!, 1S66, and thu churchyurd, by the same Order, can now that time until now the annual occurrence C\f these races has be usE\d only by t,hose havfog family vau!ta and graves. been unint.cm1ptod. The Rpring Meeting is held in April, in the ohurchyat~I is .i. stone inscribed to Cha-rlca Parkhurst., d. ' when t he "Metropolitan" and tho "City and Suburba.n" 20 Dec. 1704. Tht: register dates from the yenc 1685. The' stnkee are run for, tho" Derby " in Mn.y or the beginning o !iving is a vicarngc, net income £4-00, with 3 acree of glebe and· June, the principal days heing WedncsdAy (tb-, filly day), residence, in the gift of H. Speer esq. and held si:\c:e 1904 by. when a. sweepstake of ~n.t value, dl'p<»ndir.;, m the numoor the Rev. Waldogro.ve Dent Bainbridge-Bell M.A. Of Pembroke ' of entries, is run for, a.nd Friday (the Onk$ dfly) · t11e races (;ollese, Cambridge, and surrogate. St.. John's Mission church, ' take place on the DowM, about. a mil., south of the town. erected in 1884, at a cost of £2,000, is or brick with stone I The grand stand, ere¢ted in 1829-30, at an exvcn!le of £20,000 facings, in the Gothic st:ylc, and will eeat 300 peraons. Christ I raised by 1,000 shan:s, wM considerably enlart:(e<l and altered Church is nn ecolcaiastioal pwb, formed July 10, 18i4: the in 1886, at an expense of £12,QOO, under t.he direction of Mc. church, consecrated in 1876, o.ud since cntirc!y rebuilt, is of fiint Hatchard Smith A.B.I.B.A. architE'.ct, of Epsom, nnd forms with stone dressings, in the Decornted style, nnd con.~ists of a. prominent object on the south (rom the rond between Ewell <'hn.nccl, nave ::ind I\ t-0wcr with belfry cont.lining 8 bells: the nnd Epsom.