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Kingston upon Thames, colloquially known as Kingston, is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, England. It is situated on the River Thames, 10 miles (16 km) south-west of Charing Cross. It is an ancient market town, notable as the place where some Saxon kings were crowned.
The town of Kingston upon Thames was an ancient borough, having been formally incorporated in 1441, with a long history prior to that as a royal manor dating back to Saxon times. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The borough was reformed to become a municipal borough in 1836 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 , which standardised how most boroughs operated ...
Kingston's royal borough status transferred to the enlarged borough. [11] The council's full legal name is the "Mayor and Burgesses of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames", although it styles itself Kingston Council. [12] [2] The council counts its mayors as forming a continuous series with the mayors of the old municipal borough of ...
Kingston-upon-Thames (spelt with hyphens) was a local government district in north east Surrey, England from 1835 to 1965 around the town now known as Kingston upon Thames. It was alternatively known as Kingston on Thames (spelt with or without hyphens). [1] [2] It was a municipal borough and also held the rarer status of Royal borough.
Kingston Vale with Kingston Hill is a district in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in south London. It is a residential area between Richmond Park , the much smaller Putney Vale , Wimbledon Common , Coombe/Coombe Hill and the Norbiton part of the very old borough .
This is a list of schools in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in London, England. State-funded schools. Primary schools. CE indicates Church of England, and ...
The building, which was established as the headquarters of the Municipal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames, became the administrative headquarters of the enlarged Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council in 1965. [8] In order to accommodate a larger number of staff, it was extended in 1968. [9]
John Hoyland, artist, built and worked from a studio in Kingston upon Thames from 1964 [2] Len Hutton (1916), English Test cricketer; John Inverdale (1957), BBC broadcaster, born in Plymouth, but residing in Kingston upon Thames from 1964 [citation needed] P.D.James, author, resident 1961–1966 [3] Stuart Latham (1912), first producer of ...