Canbury

Canbury
Canbury Gardens and the River Thames
Canbury
Canbury shown within Greater London
Population	12,373 (2011 Census. Ward)
OS grid reference	TQ185705
London borough	Kingston
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KINGSTON UPON THAMES
Postcode district	KT2
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Richmond Park
London Assembly	South West
Councillors	Canbury Ward Geoff Austin (Conservative) Andrea Craig (Conservative) Tim Dennen (Independent) Tudor Ward David Cunningham (Conservative) Dennis Doe (Conservative) Frank Thompson (Conservative)
List of places UK England LondonCoordinates: 51°25′02″N 0°18′05″W / 51.4172°N 0.3015°W / 51.4172; -0.3015

Canbury is a district of the northern part of Kingston upon Thames that takes its name from the historic manor that covered the area. Modern Canbury comprises two electoral wards in the constituency of Richmond Park; Canbury Ward to the south and Tudor Ward to the north.

There is evidence of prehistoric occupation from at least the Mesolithic along the river margins at Kingston, although most of the evidence tends to consist of scattered residual artefacts. Despite numerous archaeological investigations in the area of Kingston since the 1960s there have been few in-situ archaeological finds and features dating to the Roman period. The few finds that there have been come from Canbury; a burial ground excavated in the 19th century, not far from the river and railway line, excavations at Skerne Road in 2005, and the Sopwith Way and Skerne Road areas in 2007. These have revealed evidence of small-scale and agricultural Roman settlements.

Despite Kingston's Saxon heritage, Canbury does not feature as part of the settlement of that period. Canbury, or Canonbury, is not mentioned in Domesday Book of 1086, but was held by Merton Priory at an early period, probably dating from the grant of Kingston Church by High Sheriff of Surrey Gilbert the Norman (or "Gilbert the Knight"), in about 1114.

The possessions of the Merton monastery in Kingston and Hache, (Hatch), exclusive of Berwell, were valued, in Cardinal Beaufort's time, (c. 1374–1447) at 52s. The manorial holdings included parts of open fields and buildings in the neighbouring manor of Ham with Hatch, probably the result of gifts to the church and priory as Ham had no church of its own until 1832 and lay within the parish of Kingston. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the manor, with the rectory and advowson of Kingston, was the subject of various Crown leases.

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