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Gatton was a small town near
Reigate in
Surrey,
England. It elected two members to the
Unreformed House of Commons but by
1831 had only seven voters and was disenfranchised as the most
rotten borough in the country. A
folly on
Gatton Park estate is known as
Gatton Town Hall and was where the elections were held. Gatton Park now houses the boarders of
The Royal Alexandra and Albert school.
The village lay within the
Reigate hundred.
Gatton appears in
Domesday Book of 1086 as
Gatone. It was held by Herfrid from the Bishop of
Bayeux. Its domesday assets were: 2½
hides; 1 church, 6 acres of
meadow,
woodland and herbage worth 7
hogs. It rendered £6.
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