HAMPTON WICK, on the river, about 1 mile east of Hampton Court, bounded on the east by Teddington, and connected with Kingston by a stone bridge of fiver arches, is a civil parish, formed July 26th, 1831, in the rural deanery of Hampton, archdeaconry of Middlesex and diocese of London. It was formerly under the control of a Local Board of nine members, formed in 1863, but is now governed by an Urban District Council, constituted under the provisions of the “Local Government Act, 1894” (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73). There is a station on the London and South Western branch line, which here crosses the river to Kingston. The Hampton Court gas works here, established about 1849, supply the districts of Hampton Wick, Hampton Court, East and West Molesey, Hampton, Hampton Hill and Teddington. The church of St. John the Baptist, erected in 1831, is an edifice of brick in the Decorated style, with a turret at each corner, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, west porch and a western turret containing one bell: the south window is 1 memorial to the Rev. Frederick John Champion da Crespigny M.A. vicar, 1858—87, presented by Mrs. de Crespigny, his widow: in 1880 the church was thoroughly renovated and reseated at a total cost of about £700: in 1887 a chancel was added and a stained east window erected by the parishioners in memory of the Rev. F. J. C. de Crespigny M.A. late vicar: there are also two other stained windows: there are about 600 sittings, about 300 being free. The register of baptisms dates from August 28th, 1831; marriages from 5th of March, 1832. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £413, arising partly from a farm and partly from pew-rents, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1887 by the Rev. William Wheeler Archer. The Assembly Rooms, School road, built in 1889 at a cost of £3,000, contain one large room, seating 250, besides other rooms. In commemoration of Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee a permanent drinking fountain was erected in the centre of the village, at a cost of £120, with basins and drinking cups on three sides of the shaft, a drinking trough for horses at the back, with one for dogs underneath; the fabric is of granite and Bath stone, surmounted by an ornamental lamp. The fountain was opened by Princess Victor Hohenlohe, June 8, 1898. Normansfield, in Kingston road, is a private school, for the training of the backward and feeble-minded; in connection with it are South villa, Hope villa, Maisonnette, North villa and Conifers, Kingston road: Trematon and Somerleyton, Broom road. The area of the parish and urban district is 1,235 acres of land and 80 of water; rateable value, £16,754; the population in 1891 was 2,378.