Claygate
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 Claygate Parade and village sign,showing bricks and the Claygate Pearmain |
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 Claygate
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| Claygate shown within Surrey | |
| Area | 4.71 km2 (1.82 sq mi) |
| Population | 7,168 (Civil Parish 2011) |
| • Density | 1,522/km2 (3,940/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TQ1563 |
| • London | 14.2 miles (22.9 km) |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Esher |
| Postcode district | KT10 |
| Dialling code | 01372 020 (small part) |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | |
Claygate is a suburban village in the English county of Surrey, and within the Greater London Urban Area, between 13.1 and 14.2 miles south-west of Charing Cross, central London. It is the only civil parish in the borough of Elmbridge.
Claygate was once in the main manor of Thames Ditton but is now administered from Esher. It is primarily residential and has a small number of offices, outlying farms and two modest shopping areas: the Old Village, and the Parade, altogether providing boutiques, hair and beauty shops, a supermarket, six pubs and restaurants. There are also primary schools, churches of several denominations and a wide range of social and sporting clubs and societies.
Claygate may have its name from the clay pits in the village that provided bricks for a large surrounding area including some of Hampton Court Palace. Claygate's lack of main thoroughfares has been attributed to angle of the River Thames leading the A3 main road (from London) south-west instead through Esher (now instead between Claygate and Chessington) and historical conditions when through roads became impassible in wet weather because of the clay often close to the surface. Equally, mid-distance routes chose a line to avoid this land, before the advent of road surfacing, such as those through Tolworth and Esher.
Claygate appears in Domesday Book as a manor of Thames Ditton, Claigate. This main manor of the village was held by Westminster Abbey. Its domesday assets were: ½ hide; 2 ploughs, 5 acres (2.0 ha) of meadow, woodland worth 1 hog. It rendered £2 10s 0d per year to its overlords. The manor descended (after its purchase in 1565) from the Vincent family to the . Much land remained in the manor when it was sold between 1718 and 1721 to the Earl of Lovelace, the King family and currently Locke King family who had sold the vast majority of its land by 1970.
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