Staines-upon-Thames

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Staines is a commuter town of approximately 52,400, with various boundaries and is on most definitions in the Spelthorne borough of Surrey. Historically it was in Middlesex. It is on the Thames south-west of Heathrow Airport and postally includes the former eastern fields of Egham which on their riverside had its historic small port (hythe) in Runnymede. The town has a conservation area on both sides of the river next to its (road) bridge, built from stone in the early 19th century replacing a succession of other bridges dating to Roman Britain. Its name may have come from the Old English word for 'Stones' in the same way as Stane Street means stone street, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_vowel_shift - for information on the two villages in the wider post town to the south and north-west see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TW_postcode_area. Northern Laleham's borders have become particularly blurred, extending as far as nearly the Kingston road as far as the settled church parish is concerned, but unusually having a green belt divide running almost all the way from the Thames to the Queen Mary Reservoir. This is somewhat aggravated today as the boundary is for most of this near-straight divide the Sweeps Ditch, the smallest of seven streams draining the Colne, and which has been culverted from the town centre almost to its discharge next to the Thames Path close to Laleham village centre.

Staines station is a major stop from London Waterloo to Reading, to Windsor and Eton Riverside and Weybridge via Chertsey services from London.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staines-upon-Thames
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Coordinates:   51°25'51"N   -0°30'12"E

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