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STAINES , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:Uxbridge See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Middlesex, See also:England, on the See also:river See also:Thames at the junction of the See also:Colne, 19 M. W.S.W. of See also:London on the London & See also:South Western and See also:Great Western See also:railways. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 6688. Breweries and See also:mustard See also:mills employ many hands. A See also:rifle range for the See also:Metropolitan See also:Volunteers and others was opened in 1892. A See also:British See also:village was situated here at the See also:crossing of the Thames on the See also:main road from London to south-western See also:Britain, and the crossing was certainly one of the earliest bridged. A See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of oaks from See also:Windsor See also:forest for the repair of the See also:bridge is recorded in 1262. The existing bridge, from the designs of See also:George See also:Rennie, was opened in 1831, after three See also:bridges had failed in the previous See also:forty years. The name of Staines appears in the Domesday Survey, and it has been supposed that the town is so called from a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone which marks the limit of the former See also:jurisdiction of the See also:City of London over the See also:lower Thames. This is still considered to be the boundary between the upper and lower Thames. In the immediate neighbourhood, though included in the See also:parish of See also:Egham, See also:Surrey, is See also:Runnimede See also:Island, where See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:John signed the Magna Carta.
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