EWELL, a market-town of Surrey, in the hundred of Copthorne, thirteen miles from London. Near this town is the modernised ancient palace of Nonsuch, built by Henry VIII. and a favourite residence of Queen Elizabeth, but afterwards given by Charles II. to the Duchess of Cleveland. There is a market on Thursday, and a large annual fair, at which many thousand sheep are sold. The population amounted in 1801 to 1112, in 1811 to 1135, in 1821 to 1550, and in 1831 to 1851.
EX, or EXE, a river of England, which rises in a barren tract of land called Exmoor, in the county of Somerset, and after being enlarged by several accessions, passes Tiverton, Exeter, and Topsham. It next receives the waters of the Kew, and falls into the sea at Exmouth. This river is navigable by vessels of considerable burden to Topsham, and was so to Exeter formerly.