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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "EGHAM":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Camomile Hill	Surrey	Camomile Hill , eminence, Egham par., W. Surrey; so called owing to the abundance of the herb.	Bartholomew
  Egham	Surrey	17th century), the poet, lived in the vicarage; the par. contains Egham Park , seat, and the hamlet of Egham Wick .	Bartholomew
  EGHAM	Surrey	EGHAM , a village and a parish in the district of Windsor and county of Surrey; and a sub-district, all in the same	Imperial
  Englefield Green	Surrey	eccl. dist. and vil., Egham par., W. Surrey -- dist., pop. 7389; vil., 3 m. W. of Staines; P.O., T. O.	Bartholomew
  ENGLEFIELD GREEN	Surrey	Egham parish, Surrey; near the boundary with Berks, the river Thames, and the London and Reading railway, 3¼ miles	Imperial
  FROGMORE	Berkshire	Egham, ½ a mile E of Windsor. The mansion was built by Wyatt; was the residence of Queen Charlotte, the Princess	Imperial
  Lyne Grove	Surrey	Lyne Grove , seat, 3 miles S. of Egham, Surrey.	Bartholomew
  Magna Charta Island	Surrey	Magna Charta Island , in river Thames, Egham par., Surrey, near Runney Mead.	Bartholomew
  New Egham	Surrey	New Egham , vil., Egham par., Surrey, in W. vicinity of Stames; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Portnall Park	Surrey	Portnall Park , seat, 4 miles SW. of Egham sta., Surrey.	Bartholomew
  Runney Mead	Surrey	Egham and 2 miles W. of Staines; here, or on Magna Charta Island adjacent, King John signed the great charter	Bartholomew
  RUNNYMEAD, or Runnymede		RUNNYMEAD , or Runnymede. See Egham.	Imperial
  Sunningdale	Berkshire	Chobham, Egham, and Windlesham pars., Surrey - dist., pop. 1113; vil., 7¾ miles SW. of Staines by rail; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  SUNNINGDALE	Berkshire Surrey	Egham, and Sunninghill parishes, Berks, and partly in Chobham and Windlesham parishes, Surrey; on the Staines and Reading railway, 8 miles	Imperial
  Virginia Water	Surrey	Egham par., Surrey, 2½ miles NW. of Chertsey and 23 SW. of London, pop. 1101. Virginia Water, lake, 1½ mile	Bartholomew
  VIRGINIA-WATER	Surrey	Egham parish, Surrey; on the London, Wokingham, and Reading railway, 4 miles WSW of Staines. It was constituted in 1839; and it has a post	Imperial
  WINDSOR	Berkshire	Egham parishes. Pop., 13,621. Houses, 2,276.—The district includes also Egham sub-district, and comprises 22,407 acres	Imperial

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