15 Facts About Ewell

Ewell was founded as a spring line settlement, where the permeable chalk of the North Downs meets the impermeable London Clay, and the Hogsmill River still rises at a spring close to Bourne Hall in the village centre.

Name Ewell derives from Old English æwell, which means river source or spring.

Ewell is on a long line of spring line settlements founded along the foot of hills on a geological line between the chalk of the North Downs to the south, and the clay of the London Basin to the north.

Ewell was largely developed woth semi detached housing in the 1930's, with a minority of the Ewell area built on after World War 2.

Town lies entirely within the parliamentary constituency of Epsom and Ewell, and is currently represented in parliament by Conservative Chris Grayling.

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Ewell has a C of E Parish Church, which was designed by Henry Clutton and consecrated in 1848.

St Paul's Howell Hill is situated in East Ewell and is known locally due to its prominent presence on a roundabout and its contemporary design.

Unlike most parts of its borough, Ewell has telephone numbers using the London 020 area code, alongside Stoneleigh.

Ewell has an unusually large telephone exchange, beside The Spring pub, fitted with underground facilities designed to survive a nuclear conflict during the later years of the Cold War.

Central, historic centre of Ewell containing the High Street, Bourne Hall, Ewell Castle School and immediate surrounding areas.

Ewell Court is a residential area and ward to the northwest of Ewell Village.

West Ewell is a large residential area with several local centres.

West Ewell is served by buses travelling between Epsom and Kingston, as well as Chessington.

West Ewell covers two wards: West Ewell Ward, to the south of Ruxley Lane and Ruxley Ward, to the north.

In sport, footballer Ron Harris lived in Ewell during the 1970s, cyclist Sean Yates in childhood, Trevor "Tosh" Chamberlain lived in the town, and Michael "Venom" Page was a former resident.