Epsom

Epsom is a market town in Surrey, England, 13.7 miles south-west of London, among Ashtead and Ewell. The town straddles chalk downland Epsom Downs and the upper Thanet Formation. Epsom Downs Racecourse holds The Derby, now a conventional name for games rivalries in English-talking nations. The town likewise gives its name to Epsom salts, initially removed from mineral waters there. Epsom exists in the Copthorne Hundred utilized for occasional, vital gatherings of the affluent and great in Anglo-Saxon England, and later having a Hundred Court.

The name of Epsom is early recorded as types of Ebba's ham home or maybe manor. Ebba was a Saxon landowner. Many Spring line settlements by springs in Anglo-Saxon England were established at the foot of dry valleys, for example, here and Effingham, Bookham, Cheam, Sutton, Carshalton, Croydon and Bromley. A relic from this period is a seventh century pin found in Epsom and now in the British Museum.

Chertsey Abbey, whose responsibility for fundamental house of Ebbisham was affirmed by King Ethelstan in 933, attested amid its Middle Ages presence that Frithwald and Bishop Erkenwald allowed it 20 mansas of land in Epsom in 727. Epsom shows up in Domesday Book of 1086 as Evesham, held by Chertsey Abbey. Its domesday resources were: 11 conceals; 2 places of worship, 2 factories worth 10 shillings, 18 furrows, 24 sections of land 9.7 ha of knoll, forest worth 20 pigs; through and through it rendered £17 every year to its overlords.