Gatton was a small town near Reigate in Surrey, United Kingdom. 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. Reigate is a historic market town in Surrey, England at the foot of the North Downs. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ... The House of Commons in the 18th century The unreformed House of Commons is the name generally given to the British House of Commons as it existed before the Reform Act of 1832. ... Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The term rotten borough refers to a parliamentary borough or constituency in the Kingdom of England (pre-1707), the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707-1801), the Kingdom of Ireland (1536-1801) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (from 1801 until their final abolition in 1867) which due... Broadway Tower, England The folly at Wimpole Hall, England High Service Water Tower (1895), Lawrence, Massachusetts. ...
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