Kingston upon Thames was an ancient parish in the county of

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, England. By 1839 it contained these chapelries, curacies or ecclesiastical parishes which eventually became civil parishes in their own right: Kingston-upon-Thames MB Ward Map 1868

It follows from the above list of chapelries and the hamlet of Hook, frequently listed in the medieval age that, well before the Conquest, the ancient parish was the Kingston hundred (of

). There soon was a southern exception to this. By the 1086 snapshot of the

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Long Ditton Long Ditton is a residential suburb in the Borough of Elmbridge, Surrey, England on the boundary with the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London. In medieval times it was a village, occupying a narrow strip of land. Neighbouring settlem ...

(which included

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Tolworth east of Hook hamlet) had a fully-fledged church likely gaining its independence around that time as recorded throughout the high medieval age and onwards. Thus, in the grant of Kingston church and Long Ditton church to

Merton Priory Merton Priory was an English Augustinian priory founded in 1114 by Gilbert Norman, Sheriff of Surrey under King Henry I (1100–1135). It was situated within the manor of Merton in the county of Surrey, in what is today the Colliers Wood area ...

, soon after its foundation in 1117, Long Ditton does not appear as a chapelry of Kingston. The residual

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ecclesiastical parish essentially divides sixfold: *All Saints - whole riverside strip - 1 church *St Peter, Norbiton - 2 churches *St Luke - 1 church - between railway and the Kingston Academy/Wolsey park *Kingston Hill, St Paul - 1 church *Kingston upon Thames, St John the Evangelist - Penrhyn Road & The Grove southern area - 1 church *Kingston Vale, St John the Baptist - 1 churchMap of St John the Baptist's parish
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{{Coord, 51.412, -0.300, display=title, region:GB_scale:50000 Former civil parishes in London History of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames