Egham

Egham

Egham , city (1991 pop. 21,810), Surrey, SE England. Light engineering and gravel working are the main industries. Runnymede and part of Windsor Great Park, the royal estate, are in the outlying region. Nearby is Cooper's Hill, celebrated in poems by John Denham and Alexander Pope . The Royal Holloway College of the Univ. of London is in Egham.

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Egham

Egham Surrey. Egeham 933, 1086 (DB). ‘Homestead or village of a man called Ecga’. OE pers. name + hām.

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Egham

Egham, England/UK Egeham ‘Ecga's Homestead’ from an Old English personal name and hām.

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