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The view from Kingston Lacy House shows the wooded Badbury Rings on the horizon.

Their constituent parts are the King Stone, a stone circle known as the King's Men, and a smaller group known as the Whispering Knights.

St Margaret's began as a leper hospital, possibly founded by Robert Fitz-Parnell, himself a leper, whose brother Robert, Earl of Leicester, held Kingston Manor from 1190 to 1204.

Kingston is well renowned as a shopping centre of excellence, with Bentalls department store in Clarence Street at its hub.

There has probably been a formal market at Kingston since at least Saxon times; a series of charters have been granted by royalty since the 13th century, giving it official status.

The Coronation Stone was placed upon a stone plinth set within decorative railings right in the heart of Kingston outside the Kingston municipal offices in 1850, but as traffic increased in the 20th

A few miles away from St Cleer's Well is the King Stone (actually two stones), which is also known as King Doniert's stone.

Rather unkindly, Jerome K Jerome of 'Three Men in a Boat' fame, and our constant companion along the river from Oxford to Kingston, described Abingdon as 'quiet, eminently respectable, clean and desperately

Kingston Buci had probably already taken over further along the shingle spit.

The Mansions still exist, but the hotel was demolished to make way for the M8 motorway, Kingston Bridge crossing over the Clyde at this point.

The bandstand at Canbury Gardens was a gift to the people of Kingston from a former mayor, C E Nuthall.

Travellers from Taunton to the Quantock Hills usually go by way of Kingston - and a very picturesque route it is.

As the popularity of the Thames at Kingston increased, provision was made to cater for the increasing numbers.

The river upstream from Kingston Bridge was largely free from commercial traffic, and consequently safer for yachtsmen.

The Duchess of Clarence, later Queen Adelaide to King William IV, opened the present Kingston Bridge in 1828.

The famous avenue of beech trees, planted in 1835, extends over two miles of undulating countryside to form an imposing approach to the northern entrance to Kingston Lacy Park.

Set in magnificent parkland, Kingston Lacy was built in Chilmark stone and designed by Sir Roger Pratt for the Bankes family; they owned it until 1982, when it was left to the National

Claygate lies southwards beyond the A3 Kingston and Esher by-pass, and into the preserved countryside of the Green Belt.

Not only has the motor car started to feature in the town, but the 'new' industries are represented by the Kingston Mill site (right), which was built for George Spencer Moulton in the 1920s

This picture was taken at the junction of London Road and Kingston Road.

Next to the circle is the railed King Stone, badly deformed by weather and people.

The base of a cross known as the Kingstone survived into the 20th century, but was removed and used as walling in Black Horse Lane.

Next to the circle is the railed King Stone, badly deformed by weather and people.

The war was but all over when a Surrey-led rebellion of Royalists, with many recruited from Kingston, were attacked by Parliamentary forces on the common.