Ewell

Article summary

Ewell ( , ) is a town in the Epsom and Ewell district, in Surrey, England, south of central London and northeast of Epsom. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 34,872. The majority (73%) was in the ABC1 social class, except the Ruxley Ward that is C2DE. Ewell was founded as a spring line settlement, where the permeable chalk of the North Downs meets the impermeable London Clay, and the Hogsmill River (a tributary of the River Thames) still rises at a spring close to Bourne Hall in the village centre. Recorded in Domesday Book as Etwelle, the settlement was granted a market charter to hold a market in 1618. The town is contiguous with the Greater London suburbs.

Key claims

1. date of birth: 1932 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of establishment: 1538 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366513740