Kingston upon Thames (parish)


Kingston upon Thames was an ancient parish in the county of Surrey, England. By 1839 it contained these chapelries, curacies or ecclesiastical parishes which eventually became civil parishes in their own right:
Daughter parishCreation of vestryNotes as to its vestry/BoroughNotes as to creationLocal authority today
Claygate1861Board was Esher and the Dittons Urban District from 1895From Thames DittonElmbridge
East Molesey1769Local board from 1866Elmbridge
Ham with Hatch*1866Local board from 1858Richmond-upon-Thames
Hook*1866Local board from 1866First church built 1838 made a Chapelry 1839.Kingston upon Thames
Kew1769Absorbed by Borough of Richmond in 1892Richmond-upon-Thames
Kingston upon Thames*1484Parish vestry powers mainly vested in identical-area Municipal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames Kingston upon Thames
New Malden1894Local board from 1866Kingston upon Thames
Petersham1769Absorbed by Borough of Richmond in 1892Attached to Kew until 1891Richmond-upon-Thames
Richmond 1849 remained with those marked * in 1769Became Borough of Richmond in 1890Richmond-upon-Thames
Surbiton1894Improvement commissioners from 1855Kingston upon Thames
Thames Ditton1769School Board from 1881. Board: Esher and the Dittons Urban District from 1895Elmbridge

It follows from the above list of chapelries and the hamlet of Hook, frequently listed in the medieval age that, well before the Conquest, the ancient parish was the Kingston hundred. There soon was a southern exception to this. By the 1086 snapshot of the Domesday Book, Long Ditton had a fully-fledged church likely gaining its independence around that time as recorded throughout the high medieval age and onwards. Thus, in the grant of Kingston church and Long Ditton church to Merton Priory, soon after its foundation in 1117, Long Ditton does not appear as a chapelry of Kingston.
The residual Church of England ecclesiastical parish essentially divides sixfold: