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KEMPTON PARK, a seat 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; passed to the Killigrews, the Musgraves, and others; and belongs now to Thomas Barnett, Esq.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a seat" (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites") |
| Administrative units: | Sunbury Parish Middlesex Ancient County |
| Place names: | COLD KENNINGTON | KEMPTON PARK |
| Place: | Kempton Park |
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