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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 17 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EGHAM , a See also:

town in the See also:Chertsey See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Surrey, See also:England, on the See also:Thames, 21 M. W.S.W. of See also:London by the London & See also:South Western railway. Pop. (1901) 11,895. The See also:church of St See also:John the Baptist is a reconstruction of 1817; it contains monuments by John See also:Flaxman. Above the right See also:bank of the See also:river a See also:low See also:elevation, See also:Cooper's See also:Hill, commands See also:fine views over the valley, and over See also:Windsor See also:Great See also:Park to the See also:west. On the hill was the Royal See also:Indian See also:Civil See also:Engineering See also:College, commonly called Cooper's Hill College, of which See also:Sir See also:George Tomkyns See also:Chesney was the originator and first See also:president (1871). It educated men for the public See also:works, accounts, See also:railways and See also:telegraph departments of See also:India, and included a school of forestry; but it was decided, in the See also:face of some opposition, to See also:close it in 1906, on the theory that it was unnecessary for a college with such a specialized See also:object to be maintained by the See also:government, in view of the readiness with which servants for these departments could be recruited elsewhere. See also:Part of the organization, including the school of forestry, was transferred to See also:Oxford University.. Cooper's Hill gives name to a famous poem of Sir John See also:Denham (1642). A large and handsome See also:building houses the Royal See also:Holloway College for See also:Women (1886), founded by See also:Thomas Holloway; in the neighbourhood is the See also:sanatorium of the same founder (1885) for the treatment of See also:mental ailments, accommodating about 250 patients. The college for women, surrounded by extensive grounds, commands a wide view from the wooded slope on which it stands.

The recreation See also:

hall, with its fine See also:art collection, is the most notable See also:room in this handsome building, which can receive 250 students. Within the See also:parish, bordering the river, is the See also:field of Runnymede, which, with Magna Charta See also:Island lying off it, is famous in connexion with the See also:signature of the See also:charter by See also:King John. See also:Virginia See also:Water, a large and picturesque artificial See also:lake to the south of Windsor Great Park, is much frequented by visitors. It was formed under the direction of the See also:duke of See also:Cumberland, about 1750, and was the See also:work of the See also:brothers Thomas and See also:Paul See also:Sandby.

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