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 | | The near-by Thames Ditton is no longer, as Richard Steele described it at the beginning of the eighteenth century, “an elegant solitude”; Chertsey, higher up the river, where there was one of the three great Thames-side Benedictine houses, is now given up to the week-ender. |
 | | Edward Gibbon went to school at Kingston, and it is amusing to remember that the future great historian had a future notorious highwayman, Jerry Abershawe, as a schoolfellow. |
 | | Following the Portsmouth Road from Kingston, Esher, another suburbanized village, is chiefly remarkable for the possession of Sandown Park Race Course, but history persist in obtruding. |
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