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Egham ( ) is a university town in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England, approximately west of central London. First settled in the Bronze Age, the town was under the control of Chertsey Abbey for much of the Middle Ages. In 1215, Magna Carta was sealed by John, King of England, King John at Runnymede, to the north of Egham, having been chosen for its proximity to the King’s residence at Windsor Castle, Windsor. Under the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the early 16th Century, the major, formerly ecclesiastical, Manorialism, manorial freehold (law), freehold interests in the town and various market revenues passed to Crown Estate, the Crown. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Egham became a stop on stagecoach, coaching routes between London and many places to the west. The importance of this shrank from the building of the Great Western Railway, Western and London and South Western Railway, South Western Railways but was for many decades offset by the stark growth in the ...
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Egham Hythe
Egham Hythe, Pooley Green and Thorpe Lea are adjacent settlements in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England, approximately west of central London. They are separated from the town of Egham by the M25 and from Staines upon Thames by the River Thames. Egham Hythe has been bypassed by the A30 since the 1950s. It is home to Staines Boat Club and four pubs. It has a large riverside inn and hotel facing the inn, in a conservation area known as the Hythe, meaning port in Old and Middle English. One end of Staines Bridge, a 'local road' crossing of the river, connects Egham Hythe to Staines and the Thames Path crosses from one bank to the other. History The Abbey and the causeway In the centuries around the time of the Norman Conquest the tything of the Hythe, which belonged to Chertsey Abbey, supported only shepherd's tenements and lowly agriculture dwellings due to flooding quite often by the river Thames. The consistent use of the Hythe in ecclesiastical records, Assiz ...
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