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Named after the old Spelthorne Hundred.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Spelthorne
Today it means: A local government district with borough status of Surrey, England, comprising the part of Surrey north of the River Thames that was in Middlesex until 1965. It includes the towns of Ashford, Shepperton, Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames. Full definition →