Editing Kingston upon Thames (section)

===Urban development===
[[File:Clattern.JPG|thumb|The Hogsmill flowing under [[Clattern Bridge]] in Kingston. The bridge is mentioned in 1293 as "Clateryngbrugge"<ref>Plaque on Clattern Bridge, Kingston Borough Council.</ref>]]
Kingston was built at the first crossing point of the [[Thames]] upstream from [[London Bridge]] and a [[Kingston Bridge, Kingston|bridge]] still exists at the same site. It was this 'great bridge' that gave it its early importance in the 13th century.<ref name=VCH/> Kingston was occupied by the [[Roman Empire|Roman]]s, and later it was either a royal residence or a royal [[demesne]]. There is a record of a council held there in 838, at which [[Egbert of Wessex]], King of Wessex, and his son [[Ethelwulf of Wessex]] were present. In the Domesday Book it was held by [[William the Conqueror]]. Its domesday assets were: a church, five [[Mill (grinding)|mills]], four [[fisheries]] worth 10s, 27 [[plough]]s, {{convert|40|acre|ha}} of [[meadow]], [[woodland]] worth six [[hog (swine)|hog]]s. It rendered [[GBP|£]]31 10s (£31.50).<ref>{{OpenDomesday|TQ1869|kingston-upon-thames|Kingston &#91;upon Thames&#93;}}</ref>

In 1730, the chapel containing the royal effigies collapsed, burying the [[Sexton (office)|sexton]], who was digging a grave, the sexton's daughter and another person. The daughter survived this accident and was her father's successor as sexton. Kingston sent members to early [[Parliament of England|Parliament]]s, until a petition by the inhabitants prayed to be relieved from the burden. Another chapel, the collegiate chapel of St Mary Magdalene, The Lovekyn Chapel, still exists. It was founded in 1309 by a former mayor of London, [[Edward Lovekyn]]. It is the only private chantry chapel to survive the [[English Reformation|Reformation]].{{sfn|Malden|1967|pp=125–127}}

With the coming of the railway in the 1830s, there was much building development to the south of the town. Much of this became the new town of [[Surbiton]], but the [[Surbiton Park]] estate, built in the grounds of Surbiton Place in the 1850s, remained part of Kingston during the period of the [[Municipal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames]].

A permanent military presence was established in the borough with the completion of [[The Barracks, Kingston upon Thames|The Barracks]] in 1875.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/depots/depots20.shtml |title=The Regimental depots |work=Queen's Royal Surreys |access-date=9 November 2014 |archive-date=4 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204005824/http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/depots/depots20.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>