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Definition: Surrey from Philip's Encyclopedia

County in SE England, bordering Greater London. From E to W are the North Downs, which slope down to the Thames Valley. The Wey and the Mole are the principal rivers. Much of the land in the W is devoted to farming, with dairy and market-garden produce, wheat and oats the chief products. Guildford (1999 pop. 129,200) is the county town, but the county council is sited in Kingston-upon-Thames (pop. 146,615), a Greater London borough no longer in Surrey. Area: 1,679sq km (6,48sq mi). Pop. (2001) 1,059,015.

Surrey

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
County of southern England. Area 1,660 sq km/641 sq mi Towns Kingston upon Thames (administrative headquarters), Farnham, Guildford, Leatherhead, Reigate, Woking, Epsom, Dorking Physical rivers Mole, Thames, and Wey; Box Hill (183 m/600 ft), Gibbet Hill (277 m/909 ft), and Leith Hill (299 m/981 ft, 5 km/3 mi south of Dorking, the highest hill in southeast England); North Downs Features Kew Palace and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Yehudi Menuhin School (one of four specialist music schools in England) Agriculture vegetables; sheep rearing; dairy farming; horticulture Industries service industries; sand and gravel quarrying; fuller's earth extraction (near Reigate) Population (2001) 1,059,100 Famous people Eric Clapton (musician), John Galsworthy (poet), Aldous Huxley (writer), Laurence Olivier (actor) Topography Surrey is bounded on the north by Greater London, Windsor and Maidenhead, and Bracknell Forest; on the east by Kent; on the south by East and West Sussex; and on the west by…
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From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
‘southerly district’ (referring to its location relative to Middlesex), OE suther ‘southerly’ + ge ‘district’. A county of southeast England, one of the HOME COUNTIES , bounded to the north by Berkshire and Greater London, to the east by Kent, to the south by Sussex and to the west by Hampshire. It…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
county (1991 pop. 997,000), 653 sq mi (1,691 sq km), SE England. The county seat is Guildford . Administratively, the county is divided into the districts of Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, and…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
County of southern England. Area 1,660 sq km/641 sq mi Towns Kingston upon Thames (administrative headquarters), Farnham, Guildford, Leatherhead, Reigate, Woking, Epsom, Dorking Physical rivers Mole, Thames, and Wey; Box Hill (183 m/600 ft), Gibbet Hill (277 m/909 ft), and Leith Hill (299 m/981 ft, …
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
once a kingdom, became, in the course of the 19th cent., largely a suburb and dormitory of London. Its main rivers, the Mole and the Wey, drain into the Thames, which forms the northern boundary. Across the middle of the county run the chalk downlands, from Farnham to Guildford along the Hog's Back, …
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Administrative county (pop., 2001: 1,059,015) and historic county, southern England. Surrey is located southwest of London . Sheep raising was an important medieval activity for the county, and by the 16th century a cloth trade was also growing. Its forested hills were a source of timber for…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
The name ‘Surrey’ means the southern region, and at some time must have been linked with Middlesex north of the Thames. This could have been relatively late in the story of Anglo-Saxon settlement. There is no royal dynasty associated with Surrey, and the most impressive evidence for its early…
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From Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
Since his execution, two extraordinary sides of Surrey’s public life have competed for biographical dominance. On one hand, Surrey was a Tudor humanist and a spirited and accomplished soldier. By all accounts, Surrey courted tension and drama because of his tart tongue and fierce political will. On…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born 1517, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, Eng.?—died Jan. 13, 1547, London) English poet. Because of his aristocratic birth and connections, Surrey was involved in the jockeying for place that accompanied Henry VIII ’s policies. After returning to England in 1546 from a campaign abroad, he was accused of…
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