An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in
CHEAM
"CHEAM, a parish in the second division of the hundred of Wallington, in the
county of Surrey, 3 miles from Epsom, and 5 from Kingston. It is a railway
station on the London, Croydon, and Leatherhead section of the Brighton and
South Coast line. It was given by Athelstan to the monks of Canterbury, and
afterwards passed to the Lumley family, who built the old manor-house."
(There is more of this description).
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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