A borough was originally in the Metropolitan Police District, despite being outside a modern Greater London boundaries. It was non transferred to Surrey Police until 2000.

History
Epsom & Ewell each lie on a spring line on a northward face of the N Downs in which the pervious chalk meets the imperviable London clay and the series of springs tend to form. Inside Ewell a springs which form a Hogsmill Flow of any stream come clearly evident. Victims within Epsom come less thus.

These springs attracted prehistoric people to a area & many remains keep around been noticed, mostly inside Ewell & particularly touching the Hogsmill Flow of any stream.

Inside Roman times the itinerant currently called Stane Street, which ran from either London to Chichester, passed through each Epsom & Ewell. Numerous Roman remains own been incurred around Ewell suggesting that it was the sizeable Roman class action settlement.

Two Epsom & Ewell stand Saxon names: Ewell takes its title from either a spring in the centre of the village & Epsom, or even Ebbisham, is the enclosure of Ebbi. The Saxon necropolis around The Grove in Ewell was excavated in the 1930s.

Around mediaeval days a locality was covered by tercet manors: Cuddington, which was owned by the Codington personal, Epsom which belonged to Chertsey Abbey & Ewell associated using Merton Priory.

Around 1538 the village of Cuddington was destroyed to make way for Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace and its surrounding parks. Henry died prior to a palace was completed, however it was visited by Queen Elizabeth. It was demolished around 1682.

Epsom became the spthe in the early 17th century while a spring containing Epsom salts was found on the Park. Its popularity using London society brought visits from either Samuel Pepys and Nell Gwyn, the development of shops & hostelry & of the oldest spa assembly rooms inside England. This however stands at a american prevent of Epsom High Street.

Horse racing within Epsom Downs began in a cycle of a spa period, however it was non until the Oaks was 1st do in 1789 and the Derby the following seasin that it took on something such as its present form. A number one grandstand was built around 1830 and the present complex of threesome sub 1927 and 1995.

Numbers of big houses were built within Epsom in a time period of & when the spa period. St Martin's Church was rebuilt around 1825 and partly rebuilt once more around 1908 and a clock tower inside the centre of the town replaced the earliest watchhouse in 1847. Ewell saw less vary around recent centuries &, although nowadays encircled by suburbia, however retains tremendously of its village character. Its mediaeval church was replaced per present Victorian a single within 1848, but a original mediaeval tower however substitute the god's acre.

A Pre-Raphaelite painters, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, had modems by using each Ewell & Cuddington & utilized local scenes when backgrounds for the total of their paintings: notably 'Ophelia' by Millais & 'A Weak of the Globe' by Hunt.

Around August 2005 the borough was declared the better local authority locality to infect in the stallion of the United Kingdom by the Channel 4 programme a Right & Worst Place to Sleep in the UK. A borough's moo crime rate, expert education resolutions & prominent total of open spaces were everthing cited when especially attractive features. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4136342.stm] [http://www.channel4.com/4homes/ontv/best&worst/]

Transport

Railroad station in the borough include Epsom, Ewell East, Ewell West and Stoneleigh. Two Epsom Downs and Tattenham Corner stations sit on the borough borders.

A borough is upright northward of the M25 motorway.

London Gatwick Airport is about Xx miles from either Epsom.

Politics

Epsom & Ewell is one of the pack remaining councils to exist as dominated by the class action non linked to a national political person. A Residents Association has consistently dominated a council since a foundation of the borough.

A Epsom and Ewell Parliamentary Constituency is one of the virtually all Conservative seats in a country & contains the entirity of the borough. When a borough's people is non big plenty for the fully seat, it has besides contained more neighboring areas. Since 1997 it also contains Ashtead which is part of the Mole Valley district. Prior to a boundaries were changed within 1997 the constituency instead contained Banstead to the east which is part of the Reigate and Banstead borough.