Epsom
| Epsom | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 20 ′ N , 0 ° 16 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 27,065 | ||
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| Post town | EPSOM | ||
| ZIP code section | KT17, KT18 & KT19 | ||
| prefix | 01372 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South East England | ||
| Shire county | Surrey | ||
| Ceremonial county | Surrey | ||
| District | Epsom and Ewell | ||
| British Parliament | Epsom and Ewell | ||
Epsom is a suburb of London in the borough of Epsom and Ewell on the Greater London border .
geography
Epsom is located approximately 22 km southwest of Charing Cross in central London within the M25 motorway , a ring road around London.
history
Epsom has achieved historical fame through the annual horse races at the Epsom Downs racecourse and the derby that was first established here . Based on the first horse races that took place in the area of Epsom Downs in the 17th century , the horse races "Oaks" for mares since 1779 and the "Derby Stakes" (also The.) , Founded by Edward Smith Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby , take place Derby , internationally known as Epsom Derby ) has been held here since 1780. On June 4, 1913, the suffragette Emily Davison ran onto the track during a gallop. There she was overrun by the horse of King George V and died four days later in Epsom College Hospital.
The origins of the horse races at Epsom go back to recreational entertainment for spa guests, Epsom was known in the 18th century for its medicinal spring. Sal anglicum , Sal catharticum or Epsom salt were extracted from this medicinal spring as early as 1695 . In this way, Epsom gave its name to the hydrous sulphate mineral Epsomite, named by François Sulpice Beudant in 1832 .
Healthcare
The main hospital in the city is Epsom Hospital , which serves as a teaching hospital for both Imperial College London and St George’s at the University of London .
The first hospital in Epsom was established in 1871 in the converted buildings of the Pembroke Cottages and opened in 1873 with only eight beds as Epsom and Ewell Cottage Hospital . Four years later, in 1877, they moved to Hawthorne Place . On the occasion of the golden jubilee of Victoria , Queen of the United Kingdom , a new hospital was built on Alexandra Road , which was officially inaugurated by Princess Maria von Teck in 1889 .
The first buildings on what is now Epsom Hospital on Dorking Road were built in 1890 and operated as a not-for-profit organization for over fifty years before the National Health Service's local trust was established in 1949 . At that time the hospital had forty beds. The previously existing Cottage Hospital moved in 1988 and was called West Park Hospital from then on . The old buildings on Alexandra Road have been converted into a surgical practice.
sons and daughters of the town
- Stewart Granger (1913–1993), actor
- Beryl Patricia Hall (1917-2010), ornithologist
- Petula Clark (* 1932), actress and pop singer
- Jon Symon (1941–2015), rock musician and composer, lived in Germany since the 1960s
- Glyn Johns (* 1942), sound engineer and music producer
- James Hunt (1947-1993), racing car driver
- Martin Parr (* 1952), photographer
- Thomas Mayr-Harting (* 1954), Austrian diplomat
- Nick Fry (* 1956), Managing Director at Mercedes GP
- Jon Wozencroft (* 1958), graphic designer and label owner
- Alex Kingston (born 1963), actress
- Kelvin Tatum (* 1964), track athlete
- Julia Ormond (born 1965), actress
- Nici Sterling (* 1968), model and porn actress
- Warwick Davis (born 1970), actor
- Jamie Burrow (* 1977), road cyclist
- Kelly Reilly (* 1977), film and stage actress
- Nick Easter (born 1978), rugby union -Nationalspieler
- Paul Smith (born 1979), football player
- Tom Felton (born 1987), actor
- Conor Gallagher (* 2000), English football player
Picture gallery
View of Epsom, John Constable , ca.1808
Epsom Grandstand grandstand building, drawing from the 1830s
Le derby d'Epsom by Théodore Géricault, 1821
5. Circuit furlong posts
literature
- The Epsom races . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 10 . J. J. Weber, Leipzig September 2, 1843, p. 156-158 ( books.google.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust: Undergraduate education ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Retrieved December 22, 2012.
- ↑ a b Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust: Epsom Hospital - Retrieved December 22, 2012.
- ^ Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust: Our Trust and how we fit into the wider NHS - Retrieved December 22, 2012.
