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Encyclopedia Britannica



STAINES

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 760 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
STAINES , a market town in the Uxbridge parliamentary division of
Middlesex
 , England, on the river Thames at the junction of the Colne, 19 M. W.S.W. of London on the London &
South
  Western and
Great
  Western railways. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901), 6688. Breweries and mustard mills employ many hands. A rifle range for the Metropolitan Volunteers and others was opened in 1892. A British
village
  was situated here at the crossing of the Thames on the main road from London to
south
 -western Britain, and the crossing was certainly one of the earliest bridged. A grant of oaks from Windsor forest for the repair of the bridge is recorded in 1262. The existing bridge, from the designs of George
Rennie
 , was opened in 1831, after three bridges had failed in the previous
forty
  years. The name of Staines appears in the Domesday Survey, and it has been supposed that the town is so called from a stone which marks the limit of the former
jurisdiction
  of the City of London over the lower Thames. This is still considered to be the boundary between the upper and lower Thames. In the immediate neighbourhood, though included in the parish of Egham, Surrey, is Runnimede
Island
 , where King John signed the Magna Carta.


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