Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Runney Mead

Runney Mead, broad level meadow (now a race-course), Surrey, on river Thames, in NW. vicinity of Egham and 2 miles W. of Staines; here, or on Magna Charta Island adjacent, King John signed the great charter, June l9,1215; Runneymead Park, seat, is here.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "broad level meadow, now a race-course"   (ADL Feature Type: "sports facilities")
Administrative units: Surrey AncC
Place: Runnymede

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