KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES

KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES, an ancient municipal borough
and market-town of England, county of Surrey, 10 miles
W. of London. It extends about a mile and a half along
the river, which is crossed by a fine stone bridge of five
arches, is somewhat irregularly built, and contains, among
other buildings, a handsome town-hall, an ancient cruciform
church much altered, and a Queen Elizabeth grammar
school. Pop. 6279, chiefly employed in maling. King-
ston was a place of some consequence in the days of the
Anglo-Saxons; it returned representatives to parliament in

the reigns of Edward II. and III.; and a stone on which seven of the Anglo-Saxon kings are said to have been crowned is still carefully preserved. Numerous interesting Roman antiquities have been dug up in the neighbourhood.