Talk:Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

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Oldest relics[edit]

I have removed "with the oldest relics being aged at around 300,000 years old" from the article as I don't believe it can be true. I thought civilisation began around 6,000 years ago, so this claim seems unlikely. If I am wrong then can someone put it back in, please, but with a source. --JimmyTheWig 09:55, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Railway misinformation[edit]

Briefly, contrary to present content of the article: (first sta OK and moved to become Surbiton), next line came from Twickenham and either terminated at Hampton Wick or made it to a low level terminus roughly at present station site (with Hampton Wick built lest the burghers of Kingston's opposition to having a station in the town prevailed). After a few years line was extended via high level station through Norbiton to join the South West Main Line. HL and LL stations rebuilt as one c 1935 by Southern Railway. Article needs correction with sources.--SilasW (talk) 16:27, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are there two articles on the same subject?[edit]

They may protest that "Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames" and "Kingston upon Thames" are by nobility and notability different and deserve separate articles but those two articles are not in synch. This reads (or read) like a municipal blurb for the place.--SilasW (talk) 09:07, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest this is merged with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_upon_Thames.

Technically the old place was called the Royal Borough of Kingston-Upon-Thames where as now it is Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames. So if they had to be separate, that would be the correct naming I believe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Infobleep (talk • contribs) 09:33, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kingston is a town/settlement upon the river Thames. The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is an administrative district covering a number of settlements in a part of Greater London that includes the town of Kingston and a number of other places which are not part of the town of Kingston, as with many articles on wikipedia, the devil is in the detail and not in the title. Robidy (talk) 09:51, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is Tudor an area in Kingston?[edit]

Currently all of the north of the Borough is described in Canbury which, in turn, is described as covering Canbury and Tudor Wards. I think that Tudor is a separate area (I live there and used to live in Canbury). Reesmf (talk) 12:32, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The districts section seems to be a hotch-potch of council wards, places and locally know areas as opposed to the traditional meaning of a district which in this case would be better listed as Wards, of which Tudor is one of them. Robidy (talk) 18:04, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Alexandra listed as a district[edit]

Alexandra might be a district in Kingston upon Thames, but using the current link lands one at a biography of Queen Alexandra (consort to Edward VII), and the disambiguation does not mention the Alexandra local to Kingston upon Thames. --Oldontarian (talk) 16:04, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]