Kempton Park is a locality in the Spelthorne district of Surrey, which is the location of Kempton Park Racecourse.
Kempton Park appears on the Middlesex Domesday Map as Chenetone. It was held by Robert, Count of Mortain. Its domesday assets were: 5 hides; 4 ploughs, meadow for 5 ploughs, cattle pasture, 8 arpents (approximately acres) of newly planted vineyard.[1]
In 1897 the New River Company established waterworks here to supply water to their facilities at Cricklewood. The company became incorporated into the Metropolitan Water Board in 1903, and the board completed the Kempton Park Reservoirs around the racecourse. The Metropolitan Water Board Railway was opened in 1916 to deliver coal from the riverside at Hampton to power the pumping engines. In 1929 the Board opened a new engine house for their pumps, and this has become the Kempton Park Steam Engines museum.[2]
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