Kingston upon Thames (parish)

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Kingston upon Thames
History
  Abolished1894
  Succeeded byVarious (see text)
Status Civil parish before which Parish (meaning combined civil and ecclesiastic functions, and pre-1066-incepted, known today as ancient parish)

Kingston upon Thames was an ancient parish in the county of Surrey, England. By 1839 it contained these chapelries, curacies or ecclesiastical parishes which eventually became civil parishes in their own right: [1]

A map showing the wards of Kingston upon Thames Municipal Borough as they appeared in 1868. Kingston-upon-Thames MB Ward Map 1868.svg
A map showing the wards of Kingston upon Thames Municipal Borough as they appeared in 1868.
Daughter parishCreation of vestryNotes as to its vestry/BoroughNotes as to creationLocal authority today
Claygate 1861Board was Esher and the Dittons Urban District from 1895 [2] From Thames Ditton [3] Elmbridge
East Molesey 1769Local board from 1866Elmbridge
Ham with Hatch*1866Local board from 1858Richmond-upon-Thames
Hook*1866Local board from 1866 [4] First church built 1838 made a Chapelry 1839. [5] Kingston upon Thames
Kew 1769 [6] Absorbed by Borough of Richmond in 1892Richmond-upon-Thames
Kingston upon Thames*1484Parish vestry powers mainly vested in identical-area Municipal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames (abbrev. Kingston M.B.)Kingston upon Thames
New Malden 1894Local board from 1866Kingston upon Thames
Petersham 1769Absorbed by Borough of Richmond in 1892Attached to Kew until 1891 [7] Richmond-upon-Thames
Richmond (previously Sheen)1849 [8] remained with those marked * in 1769Became Borough of Richmond in 1890Richmond-upon-Thames
Surbiton 1894Improvement commissioners from 1855Kingston upon Thames
Thames Ditton 1769School Board from 1881. Board: Esher and the Dittons Urban District from 1895 [2] Elmbridge

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 Surrey). There soon was a southern exception to this. By the 1086 snapshot of the Domesday Book, Long Ditton (which included exclave 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, soon after its foundation in 1117, Long Ditton does not appear as a chapelry of Kingston. [9]

The residual Church of England ecclesiastical parish essentially divides sixfold:

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References

  1. Youngs, Frederic (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Vol. I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. ISBN   0-901050-67-9.
  2. 1 2 "Esher and the Dittons UD through time | Census tables with data for the Local Government District". Archived from the original on 7 May 2014.
  3. 'Parishes: Thames Ditton', in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H E Malden (London, 1911), pp. 462-467. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp462-467
  4. "Hook CP/Hmlt through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit". Archived from the original on 14 March 2016.
  5. "HOOK | As described in John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)". Archived from the original on 7 December 2019.
  6. Private Act, Kingston upon Thames (Surrey) Vicarage Division Act 1769 (9 Geo. 3. c. 65)
  7. Kew and Petersham Vicarage Acts 1891
  8. Local Act, 12 & 13 Vict. cap. 42.
  9. 'Parishes: Long Ditton', in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H E Malden (London, 1911), pp. 516-522. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp516-522
  10. Map of All Saints parish
  11. Map of St Peter's parish
  12. Map of St Luke's parish
  13. Map of St Paul's parish
  14. Map of St John the Evangelist's parish
  15. Map of St John the Baptist's parish

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