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Epsom is a town in the Borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, about 13.5 miles (22 kilometres) south of central London. The town is first recorded as Ebesham in the 10th century and its publicize probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner. The very old evidence of human bustle is from the mid-Bronze Age, but the modern agreement probably grew in the works in the area surrounding St Martin’s Church in the 6th or 7th centuries and the street pattern is thought to have become standard in the Middle Ages. Today the High Street is dominated by the clock tower, which was erected in 1847–8.

Like other friendly settlements, Epsom is located on the spring lineage where the leaky chalk of the North Downs meets the impermeable London Clay. Several tributaries of the Hogsmill River rise in the town and in the 17th and in advance 18th centuries, the spring on Epsom Common was believed to have healing qualities. The mineral waters were found to be rich in Epsom salts, which were superior identified as magnesium sulphate. Charles II was in the midst of those who regularly took the waters and several prominent writers, including John Aubrey, Samuel Pepys and Celia Fiennes recorded their visits. The popularity of the spa declined immediately in the 1720s so of competition from extra towns, including Bath and Tunbridge Wells.