In 1839, Epsom Chapel became the first Christian house of worship in Towson, used by various denominations.

He was an owner of thoroughbred racing horses, including a record equalling five winners of the Epsom Derby ( Blenheim, Bahram, Mahmoud, My Love, Tulyar ) and a total of sixteen winners of British Classic Races.

The Kentucky Derby was first run at, the same distance as the Epsom Derby.

One especially influential Thoroughbred was Perfectionist, by Persimmon, who won the Epsom Derby and the St Leger in 1896.

Horse-racing historian Michael Tanner, in a 2011 television interview at Epsom, pointed out that as Emily Davison was standing on the inside of the bend at Tattenham Corner, amidst heaving crowds, and with no racetrack commentary like there is today, it would in fact have been impossible for her to have any idea whether the King's horse Anmer had in fact already gone past or not when she stepped out onto the racecourse to make her protest ; and that at the speeds the horses were going it would not have been practicable for her to identify any particular horse anyway even if she'd meant to.

The Kentucky Oaks was modeled after the British Epsom Oaks.

At stud, she produced only two other foals, but one of these was Fleur who produced the 1977 Epsom Derby winner The Minstrel Nijinsky was a big, powerful horse standing 16. 3 hands high, resembling his dam rather than his sire in stature.

Nijinsky's opposition in the Derby at Epsom was stronger and he started at odds of 11 / 8.

The winning time of 2: 34. 68 was the fastest Epsom Derby since 1936.

Nijinsky was given a rating of 138 by Timeform, the second highest for a winner of the Epsom Derby up to that time.

By his own account, Crisp was effeminate in behaviour from an early age and found himself the object of teasing at Kingswood House School in Epsom, from where he won a scholarship to Denstone College, Uttoxeter, in 1922.

Epsom was the town where Leo Rockway ( known initially as " Joe ") in Stephen King's The Stand was from.

The station opened on 10 May 1847 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway as ' Carshalton ' on the new Croydon to Epsom railway and was renamed to ' Wallington ' in 1868 when the new Carshalton railway station opened in Carshalton village.

Towards the evening we bade them adieu and took horse, being resolved that, instead of the race which fails us, we would go to Epsom When we come there we could hear of no lodging, the town so full, but which was better, I went towards Ashsted, and there we got a lodging in a little hole we could not stand upright in While supper was getting I walked up and down behind my cosen Pepys's house that was, which I find comes little short of what I took it to be when I was a little boy.

A house was also named after him at Epsom College, a public school located in Epsom.

Historically, Epsom was known as a spa town, although there is little to see nowadays apart from a water pump.

Epsom salt ( magnesium sulfate ) was originally prepared by boiling down mineral waters at Epsom.

Owing partly to its position in the London commuter belt allowing easy access to the Greater London conurbation to the north and the rolling Surrey countryside to the south, the borough of Epsom and Ewell was named in August 2005 by Channel 4's Location, Location, Location as the " Best Place to Live " in the United Kingdom, and ranked at numbers 8 and 3 in subsequent years.

The access junction for the A3, linking it on the north with the Broadway and on the south with the A240 Kingston Road toward Epsom, is known as the Toby Jug Roundabout, named after the public house which stood beside it until demolished in 2002.

The college ’ s Epsom campus was established in 1926-original building 1925 by John Farrell, demolished 1976.

He had style: he held his reins in a loose bunch at the third button of his checked Epsom surtout, and when the horses leaned at a curve, as if bent by the force of a gale, he leaned with them.

The course of the river north of the village of Westhumble was partially straightened when the Epsom to Horsham railway was built in 1837, with the removal of a small meander.

In 1702, he was at Epsom when Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne fell ill.

* 6 June: Edgar Wallace became the first British radio sports reporter, when he made a report on the Epsom Derby.

In 1980, Etti Plesch became the only female to ever win the Epsom Derby twice when her horse Henbit won England's most prestigious race.

A recipe for cream soda — written by E. M. Sheldon and published in Michigan Farmer in 1852 — called for water, cream of tartar, Epsom salts, sugar, tartaric acid, egg, and milk, to be mixed, then heated, and when cool mixed with water and a quarter teaspoonful of soda ( sodium bicarbonate ) to make an effervescent drink.

In 1911 he was honoured when he was created Baron Epsom, of Hyde in the County of Surrey, Viscount Mentmore, of Mentmore in the County of Buckingham, and Earl of Midlothian, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

On 6 June 1923, Edgar Wallace became the first British radio sports reporter, when he made a report on the Epsom Derby for the British Broadcasting Company, the newly founded predecessor of the BBC.

Operation Perch in the week following D-Day, and Operation Epsom ( 26 – 30 June ) brought some territorial gains and depleted its defenders, but Caen remained in German hands until Operation Charnwood ( 7 – 9 July ), when the Second Army managed to take the northern part of the city up to the River Orne in a frontal assault.

The first battle for Hill 112 was fought at the end of Operation Epsom, when the tanks of 11th Armoured Division broke out from a bridgehead established by the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at Tourmauville.

He is most notable for his achievements as a three-year-old in 1964 when he won the Irish 2, 000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby and the Irish Derby.

He served as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for West Surrey from 1860 to 1885, and then for Epsom until 1892, when elevated to the Lords as Baron Ashcombe of Dorking, Surrey and of Bodiam Castle, Sussex, having been invested as a Privy Counsellor in 1880.

In 1999 he won his first Derby when he rode the Cecil-trained Oath to victory at Epsom and followed up by winning the Oaks on Ramruma for the same stable.

Worth entered Parliament when he successfully stood as the National Party's candidate for the Auckland seat of Epsom in the 1999 election with a majority of 1, 908.

Due to the outbreak of the First World War, the full planned expansion was cancelled, and was never completed, although the wide space between the tracks shows where the fast lines had been laid prior their removal in the 1980s when the South Coast services stopped running through Sutton and Epsom.

His most important success came in June 1984 when he won the Epsom Derby.

He is best known for his performances in the summer of 1986 when he defeated Dancing Brave in the Epsom Derby, and won the Irish Derby by eight lengths.

In 1705, he had the fortune of being at Epsom races when Prince George of Denmark, husband of Anne of Great Britain was taken ill. Dr Arbuthnot was rushed to his side.

Sutton station was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ) on 10 May 1847 when the railway opened its line from West Croydon to Epsom.

The station is still accessible when the ticket hall is closed via a side gate in the car park on Epsom Road.

The railway in Carshalton Beeches has been around since 1847 when track was laid between Epsom, Sutton and West Croydon but it was not until 1906 that a halt was opened in the small settlement, at the north end of Beeches Avenue ( at the time called Beechnut Tree Walk ).