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53-600: The Molesey Reservoirs were a group of reservoirs in England near Molesey , Surrey , in the western suburbs of London . There was an adjacent water treatment works. The reservoirs were adjacent to the River Thames on the south side on the reach above Molesey Lock . They are between the river and the A3050 (Hurst Road). On the other side of this road are the neighbouring Bessborough Reservoir and Knight Reservoir , and beyond these

106-473: A fortune when the railway arrived at Hampton Court in 1849, quickly buying up land nearby and selling it on to wealthy individuals or developers who rapidly built on low lying former meadows that had always been flood prone. They naturally remained so until the 1960s when the nearby River Mole was re channelled after a hugely expensive flood. Pictures of the East Molesey area and Hampton Court station environs (on

159-560: A law that would stop batsmen simply obstructing their wicket with their leg pads to prevent being bowled. The LBW law has been revised several times since then. Molesey Boat Club (established 1866) is home to some Olympic and World Championship medallists and domestic success at all ages, particularly in its adult crews. The rowing club also competes in the Amateur Molesey Regatta held annually in Hurst Park Molesey F.C.

212-574: A list. This list takes the broad view that acro- and auto- count as English derivational prefixes because they function the same way like that of prefixes such as over- and self- do. As for numeral prefixes , only the most common members of that class are included here. There is a large separate table covering them all at Numeral prefix > Table of number prefixes in English . binomial , "two terms" dipole , "two poles" The choice between hyphenation or solid styling for prefixes in English

265-434: A new word with a new semantic meaning and sometimes also a different lexical category . Prefixes, like all affixes, are usually bound morphemes . English has no inflectional prefixes, using only suffixes for that purpose. Adding a prefix to the beginning of an English word changes it to a different word. For example, when the prefix un- is added to the word happy , it creates the word unhappy . The word prefix

318-501: A nighttime theft. Thieves used scaffolding put up to install an antenna approved by Elmbridge Council. Press reports alleged that police had been alerted to the crime by a local resident but that they had declined to attend. Molesey has three Scout groups which all belong to Esher District. 1st Molesey is a Royal Navy -recognised Sea Scout group whilst 2nd and 3rd Molesey are both Land Scout Groups. All groups have sections from Beavers right through to Explorers. The groups take part in

371-711: A part of the ancient parish of Kingston upon Thames , based at the historic All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames . From 1933, the Urban District of East and West Molesey became part of the Esher Urban District, which was originally recommended by the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London (the Herbert Commission) for inclusion within the new ceremonial county of Greater London . In 1974,

424-649: A part of the formation of nouns, prefixes are less common in Russian than suffixes, but alter the meaning of a word. In German, derivatives formed with prefixes may be classified in two categories: those used with substantives and adjectives, and those used with verbs. For derivative substantives and adjectives, only two productive prefixes are generally addable to any substantive or adjective as of 1970: un- , which expresses negation (as in ungesund , from gesund ), and ur- , which means "original, primitive" in substantives, and has an emphatic function in adjectives. ge- , on

477-644: A roughly due north–south compass axis, based on a point of division by the Molesey Stone on the grass outside Molesey Library on Walton Road, though the Stone has been moved from its original position and the actual boundary between East and West Molesey has become somewhat blurred and disputed. On 8 June 1913 the grandstand at the former Hurst Park Racecourse in Molesey was virtually destroyed after an arson attack by suffragettes Kitty Marion and Clara Giveen . The attack

530-564: A wide variety of activities and events throughout the year at various locations. Molesey's conservation area is bordered to the south by a corollary channel of the River Mole , known as the River Ember , where successive environment authorities have implemented capacity-adding flood defences following a widespread and costly flood in 1968. Following further extensive flooding along the Thames in 2014

583-536: Is Hampton Court railway station in Transport for London's Zone 6 , operated by South Western Railway . This is the terminus of a stopping commuter service to London Waterloo that takes around thirty-five minutes. Principal stops are Surbiton , Wimbledon and Clapham Junction . During the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show extra trains run to and from London. Four bus routes serve the town. To

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636-754: Is a non-league football team based in West Molesey. The club is currently a member of the Isthmian League and play at the Herds Renault Stadium, Walton Road. The original football club was established by former Corinthian player James Jenkinson Knox in Autumn 1892 under the name Hampton Court and East Molesey Association Football Club. Their first match was played on 24 September 1892 against Barnes, winning 14–5. In 1946 Molesey United and West Molesey Old Boys merged to form Molesey Football Club. The new club joined

689-500: Is covered at Hyphen > Prefixes and suffixes . Commonly used prefixes in Japanese include お〜 ( o- ) and ご〜 ( go- ) . They are used as part of the honorific system of speech , and are used as markers for politeness, showing respect for the person or thing they are affixed to, notably also being used euphemistically . In the Bantu languages of Africa , which are agglutinating ,

742-410: Is itself made up of the stem fix (meaning "attach", in this case), and the prefix pre- (meaning "before"), both of which are derived from Latin roots . This is a fairly comprehensive, although not exhaustive, list of derivational prefixes in English. Depending on precisely how one defines a derivational prefix, some of the neoclassical combining forms may or may not qualify for inclusion in such

795-509: Is situated on the south bank of the River Thames. East and West Molesey share a high street, and there is a second retail restaurant-lined street (Bridge Road) close to Hampton Court Palace in the eastern part of the district, which is also home to Hampton Court railway station in Transport for London 's Zone 6. Molesey Hurst or Hurst Park is a large park by the River Thames in the north of

848-492: Is the terminus of a second Transport for London bus service, route R68 , operated by Transport UK London Bus . The route begins at Hampton Court station , and runs through Hampton, Hampton Hill , Teddington , Strawberry Hill , Twickenham and Richmond before ending at Kew retail park. To the west Route 461, operated by Falcon Coaches on behalf of Surrey County Council , runs from Kingston, through Molesey and on to Walton , terminating at Tesco , Addlestone . To

901-550: The Domesday Book of 1066 as Moleshire'. It was held partly by John from Richard Fitz Gilbert and partly by Roger d'Abernon. Its Domesday assets were: 2 hides and 3 virgates . It had 7 ploughs , 2 oxen , and 32 acres (13 ha) of meadow and woodland worth 10 hogs . It rendered £6 15s 0d. West Molesey was held by Odard Balistarius. Its Domesday assets were: 1 hide, 1 church, and 5 ploughs . It rendered £2.50. Along with neighbouring Thames Ditton , East Molesey formed

954-554: The Grade II-listed Matham Manor, an altered 15th-century house with timber frames and red brick; and a 16th-century house, Quillets Royal, with an 18th-century extension (The Manor House). Both buildings lie near The Bell in Bell Road/Matham Road. In April 2017, 15th-century St Peter's Church on Walton Road, said to be the oldest building in Molesey, had lead stolen from the roof and historic masonry damaged in

1007-562: The Greater London Built-up Area . The earliest documentary evidence of a settlement in Molesey appears in a 7th-century charter, shortly after Erkenwald founded Chertsey Abbey in AD 666. He secured from Frithwald , sub-king of Surrey, a charter endowing the abbey with much of the surrounding land, including Muleseg . Etymologists suggest that the town's name is derived from the personal name Mul (pronounced Mule) compounded with

1060-558: The Navajo language are formed from a word stem and multiple affixes. For example, each verb requires one of four non-syllabic prefixes ( ∅ , ł , d , l ) to create a verb theme. In the Sunwar language of Eastern Nepal , the prefix ma- म is used to create negative verbs . It is the only verbal prefix in the language. ma .rimʃo NEG .nice al child   ma .rimʃo al NEG.nice child Bad child! (scolding) As

1113-555: The Old English word eg , meaning an island or river meadow – thus Mul's Island. Therefore, Molesey is not, as commonly believed, named after the River Mole that runs through it. The prefixes East and West did not appear until about the year 1200, before which there was only one parish centred around what is now known as East Molesey. Molesey lay within the Saxon administrative district of Elmbridge hundred . East Molesey appears in

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1166-740: The Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir . The reservoirs were established in 1872 (152 years ago)  ( 1872 ) , by the Lambeth Waterworks Company and three years later by the Chelsea Waterworks Company . Both companies had previously built their reservoirs nearby at Seething Wells in Surbiton , but they sucked up too much mud with the water because of turbulence caused by the River Mole , River Ember and The Rythe . They had pumping stations at Molesey to lift

1219-442: The noun class is conveyed through prefixes, which is declined and agrees with all of its arguments accordingly. ò-mú -límí AG - CL1 -farmer ò-mú -néné AG - CL1 -fat ò-mú -kâddé AG - CL1 -old ò-mú AG .one à-∅-gênda he- PRES -go ò-mú -límí ò-mú -néné ò-mú -kâddé ò-mú à-∅-gênda AG-CL1-farmer AG-CL1-fat AG-CL1-old AG.one he-PRES-go The one, old, fat farmer goes. Verbs in

1272-564: The 1960s: the Hurst Park Estate has a mixture of three and two-storey homes and a block of flats overlooking the river. Part of the open space that was part of the racetrack is now a riverside park. There is a wide grass expanse, a playground and open access to the Thames, features here include the Hampton Ferry and Molesey Regatta, a major event in the sport of rowing with catering and evening outdoor music. There are some large iron gates in

1325-546: The Environment Agency is to carry out more large scale 'capacity building' work involving the construction of nine miles (14 km) of new channels in areas upstream of Molesey as part of a flood relief project known as the River Thames Scheme (RTS) running between 2018 and 2027. Before 1968 the whole area including expensive areas such as East Molesey flooded badly on a regular basis as they are in part located on

1378-623: The Middlesex bank. It was home to a horse racing course from 1890 to 1962. The residential streets of East Molesey run directly into Weston Green and the northernmost stretches of residential Esher to the south, and Thames Ditton to the east and south-east. Together with the reservoirs, Green Belt land to the west and south-west divides West Molesey from Walton on Thames . The central shopping area of Kingston upon Thames lies 1.7 miles (2.7 km) east of Bridge Road in East Molesey, while central Walton on Thames lies 2.3 miles (3.7 km) to

1431-718: The Surrey Intermediate League and won the league in their first season. Metropolitan Police F.C. is a non-league football team based in East Molesey and are based at the Imber Court Sports Ground. AFC Molesey is a former non-league football team that was also based in West Molesey, a member of the Surrey County Intermediate League (Western) Division One and played at the West Molesey Recreation Ground, Walton Road. Up to

1484-685: The Tolworth and District Pool League. Darts is a very popular sport in Molesey, played at several public houses including the Molesey Football Club, The Royal Oak , The Cannon and the Royal British Legion. Teams are made up of patrons and club members. All teams compete in the Molesey and District Darts League. In 2012 Bradley Wiggins won the Olympic Time Trial event. The course passed through East and West Molesey and Hurst Park, and

1537-414: The West Molesey area for the period October 2021 to September 2022 recorded violence and sexual crime as the biggest single category with 328 instances, with anti-social behaviour having 180 instances and criminal damage and arson ranked third with 74. 31 burglaries were recorded, with 42 vehicle crimes. There were two murders in West Molesey in 2016–2017. A woman was found murdered with a machete or axe in

1590-475: The West Molesey/East Molesey border. It was at one time home to the well-known company Roberts Radio who built a factory there in 1962. Molesey was once the bare-knuckle boxing centre of England, and had a famous horse-racing track stretching the length of the River Thames from where Hurst Park School now stands, down to Molesey Lock . The course closed in 1962, and much of it was built on in

1643-474: The access road to Hurst Park called Graburn Way which were built so that horse races then started just east of the road and enabled the course to have a 'straight mile'. 'Moulsey Hurst' is a very early site of cricket (from 1731) and that tradition is continued to this day by East Molesey Cricket Club , which is located alongside the South bank of the Thames, one-half mile (0.80 km) from Hampton Court Palace . It

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1696-420: The area, and is home to East Molesey Cricket Club . The Hampton Ferry runs from here to Hampton on the Middlesex bank, from where it is a short walk to the central area of Hampton . Molesey is divided into three wards : Molesey South, East and North. The majority of Molesey's detached properties are in the east, which also contains the highest proportion of apartments of the three wards. Molesey forms part of

1749-471: The cheapest in the London area – while implying a misleading proximity to Hampton Court. The attraction was cheap, low-lying land near the London reservoirs and quite remote from transport links, especially the railway. Speculative land dealing and building go back a long way in the area. Much of East Molesey resulted from large scale land speculation in the 1850s by Francis Jackson Kent who saw an opportunity to make

1802-541: The date that the club folded, the club had seen its popularity grown significantly following its winning several honours including the Lower Junior County Cup in the 2007/08 season and successful consecutive league promotions. Molesey Juniors F.C. is a community youth football organisation based at the Wilderness Playing Fields, East Molesey Just beyond the gates of Hurst Park used to be the home of

1855-568: The district eventually merged with its neighbour to the west, Walton and Weybridge Urban District, to form the new borough of Elmbridge within Surrey. Molesey was one of the many villages and towns along the Thames valley affected by flooding in 1968; specifically here the flooding of the River Mole . Some barriers and overflow fields have been created since then by the Environment Agency and its precursors. The boundary between East and West Molesey uses

1908-458: The east Transport for London 's London Buses route 411 (previously route 131 from West Molesey to Kingston , and, before that, from West Molesey to Wimbledon ), is operated by London United . The short route begins at Central Avenue in West Molesey and runs through East Molesey, past Hampton Court Station and on to Kingston town centre. To the north-east East Molesey's northern point by its station, shopping parade and small riverside park

1961-558: The event finish was at Hampton Court Palace, which has an East Molesey postcode: Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9AU. The Surrey Classic Cycle race previously passed East and West Molesey and Hurst Park yearly. National Cycle Network route #4 passes along the River Thames towpath through Molesey. The karting team, OsbornRacing is based in Daytona Sandown Park, with one of its drivers currently residing in West Molesey. Surrey Police statistics for reported crime in

2014-510: The former flood plains of the Thames and the Mole. Even today localised flooding and standing water can be quite common in times of heavy rain as the area is very low lying and flat. Molesey can be the subject of flood warnings that affect the Thames Valley. Molesey Lock is the third lock (and weir) on the River Thames, after Richmond and Teddington locks, and marks the furthest point upstream that

2067-455: The forming of the past participle of verbs; ver- has an emphatic function, or it is used to turn a substantive or an adjective into a verb. In some cases, the prefix particle ent- (negation) can be considered the opposite of particle be- , while er- can be considered the opposite of ver- . The prefix er- usually indicates the successful completion of an action, and sometimes the conclusion means death. With fewer verbs, it indicates

2120-451: The front garden of her house on Walton Road, Molesey in March 2016 resulting in extensive national publicity. Police launched a second local murder investigation on 7 December 2017 when a woman reported as previously deliberately run down in the small hours of the morning in a car park on land between Hurst Road, Molesham Way and Walton Road, died in hospital. The railway station in East Molesey

2173-566: The influence of the tides on the Thames (regulated by the Thames Barrier at Woolwich ) may be registered. The lock is located within 100 metres (330 ft) of Hampton Court Bridge , designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens . In the West Molesey area some houses are the result of over-optimistic development in the 1930s by developer Donald Gordon Howard who eventually went bankrupt trying to sell houses at exceptionally low prices – at £395 some of

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2226-593: The open air Upper Deck swimming pool, the nearest open air pool now being across the ferry up Hampton High Street in Hampton . An indoor pool was built by the council nearby as a replacement. Flats are now built on the site of the outdoor pool. The entire riverside recreational area was previously referred to as Moulsey Hurst . Hurst swimming pool is in Dunstall Way in the north of Molesey. The Poyntz Arms Public House and Molesey East & West Conservative Club host matches in

2279-488: The opposite bank to the Palace) in flood conditions recur in 19th and 20th centuries. Molesey and adjacent areas of Esher, Walton and Hersham also have a significant amount of former council housing constructed by the predecessors to Elmbridge Council. There are also areas of post-war system built housing, thought to be of the concrete sectional type, built at the time of housing shortage in the years after World War 2 including on

2332-427: The other hand, expresses union or togetherness, but only in a closed group of words—it cannot simply be added to any noun or adjective. Verbal prefixes commonly in use are be- , ent- , er- , ge- , miss- , ver- , and zer- (see also Separable verb ). be- expresses strengthening or generalization. ent- expresses negation. ge- indicates the completion of an action, which is why its most common use has become

2385-444: The regional average of 35.1 per cent. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5 per cent. The remaining segment is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible per cent of households living rent-free). Prefix Prefixes, like other affixes, can be either inflectional , creating a new form of a word with the same basic meaning and same lexical category , or derivational , creating

2438-411: The south-west and south-east Route 514, also operated by Falcon on behalf of Surrey County Council, runs from Hersham to Kingston via Molesey, Thames Ditton, Long Ditton and Surbiton. The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The proportion of households in the settlement who owned their home outright compares to

2491-431: The southern part of Bushy Park and most of Hampton Court Park are in the post town of East Molesey. Molesey Lock is just above Hampton Court Bridge , downstream of Sunbury Lock and upstream of Teddington Lock . Cigarette Island Park is just below the bridge, occupying the eastern extremity of the town. Hurst Park is on the south bank of the Thames, from where there is a daily ferry service to Hampton on

2544-403: The water from the Thames into the reservoirs and there were concrete wharves on the river bank at which to unload coal to power the steam engines. Only the wharves remain by the riverside, being used for overnight mooring of pleasure cruisers. The reservoirs were taken out of use in 1999 (25 years ago)  ( 1999 ) . The land was then used for the extraction of aggregates , and after

2597-535: The west lie Bessborough Reservoir and Knight Reservoir , to the north-west Molesey Reservoirs , to the south Island Barn Reservoir , and to the south-west Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir . There are walks beside Metropolitan green belt fields to the south along the river Mole to Esher , and to the west along the Thames Path to Walton-on-Thames . Hampton Court Palace is immediately north-east of East Molesey across Hampton Court Bridge . The Palace, together with

2650-465: The west-southwest of West Molesey High Street. Molesey itself has some interesting landmarks, including three listed Church of England churches and The Bell , a public house , formerly known as "The Crooked House", built in the mid-15th century. Other landmarks include The Jubilee Fountain in Bridge Road. There are three designated Conservation Areas in East Molesey. Other historic buildings include

2703-488: The work is complete, it will be converted into a wetland reserve. 51°24′25″N 0°23′19″W  /  51.4070°N 0.3887°W  / 51.4070; -0.3887 This Surrey location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Molesey Molesey is a suburban district comprising two villages, East Molesey and West Molesey , in the Borough of Elmbridge , Surrey , England , and

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2756-545: Was founded in 1871. The club's first XI play in Surrey Championship Premier Division and there are four other senior Saturday league sides and two u21 Sunday league side, regularly competing against other Surrey clubs. The first recorded Leg Before Wicket (LBW) dismissal in first class cricket is said to have been given in a game between an XI of Surrey and a XIII of England at this site in 1795. Prior to this date there had been several attempts to formulate

2809-594: Was said to be in revenge for the death of Emily Davison at the Epsom Derby earlier that month. The pair were arrested the following day and imprisoned for three years, although both were released early after going on hunger strike . Molesey is directly south of the River Thames , with several large reservoirs bordering the town to the west and south that provide water within the London Basin . Some of these are now disused and are being converted into nature reserves. To

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