History

Gatton was a village near Reigate in Surrey, England. Reigate is a historic market town in Surrey, England at the foot of the North Downs, and in the London commuter belt. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The village lay within the Reigate hundred. Reigate was a hundred in what is now Surrey, England. It includes the town of Reigate.

Gatton appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Gatone. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey It was held by Herfrid from the Bishop of Bayeux. Bayeux (bajø is a commune in the Calvados département, in Normandy in northwestern France. Its domesday assets were: 2½ hides; 1 church, 6 acres of meadow, woodland and herbage worth 7 hogs. The hide was a unit used in assessing land for liability to " Geld " or land tax in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th centuries A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by Grass and other non- Woody plants. Ecologically a woodland is an area covered in trees differentiated from a Forest. Pigs, also called hogs or' swine', are Ungulates which have been domesticated as sources of food leather and similar products since ancient times It rendered £6. ^[1]

Gatton elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons but by 1831 had only seven voters and was disenfranchised as the most rotten borough in the country. The unreformed House of Commons is the name generally given to the British House of Commons as it existed before the Reform Act of 1832. Year 1831 ( MDCCCXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a The term "rotten" or "decayed" borough referred to a parliamentary borough or Constituency in Great Britain and Ireland A folly on Gatton Park estate, in the form of a small colonnade, is known as Gatton Town Hall and was where the elections were held. In Architecture, a folly is a Building constructed strictly as a decoration having none of the usual purposes of housing or sheltering associated with a conventional Gatton Park is a Country estate set in Parkland near Gatton in Surrey, England.

The present

Gatton lies at the foot of the escarpment of the North Downs. In Geomorphology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves a sharp steep Elevation differential characterized The North Downs are a ridge of Chalk hills in south east England that stretch for 120 miles (190 km from Farnham in Surrey to the White Gatton Park now houses the boarders of The Royal Alexandra and Albert school. The Royal Alexandra and Albert School is a co-educational comprehensive state maintained boarding school located in Reigate, Surrey. The North Downs Way passes through the park, between Reigate Hill and Merstham. The North Downs Way is a long-distance path in southern England. Merstham is a village in the Reigate and Banstead borough of Surrey, England, in the London commuter belt. There are extensive landscaped grounds, and these are opened to the public on a few afternoons each year.

References

1. ^ Surrey Domesday Book

See also

Gatton (UK Parliament constituency)

External links

• Reigate and Redhill Guide and Directory

Coordinates: 51°15′N 0°10′W / 51.25, -0.167