Kempton Park, Middlesex
Historical Description
Kempton Park, an estate chiefly in Sunbury parish, Middlesex, near the river Thames, 4 miles W of Kingston-on-Thames. It was formerly called Cold Kennington, was forfeited in the time of Henry I. by the Earl of Cornwall to the Crown, was a royal seat till 1331, and passed to the Killigrews, the Musgraves, and others. About 400 acres of the estate are leased to the Kempton Park Race Co., and are enclosed within a ring fence and provided with stands, stables, refreshment rooms, telegraph offices, &c. The course is a few minutes'walk from Sunbury station on the L. & S.W.R., and races take place at frequent intervals.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Kempton Park are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)