  chessington is an area in the royal borough of kingston upon thames within greater london. the hogsmill river runs through it. neighbouring settlements include: tolworth, ewell, surbiton, claygate, epsom, oxshott, leatherhead, esher, kingston upon thames and worcester park. ==history== its name came from anglo-saxon cissan dÅ«n = "hill belonging to [a man named] cissa". chessington appears in the domesday book as cisedune and cisendone. it was held partly by robert de wateville and partly by milo (miles) crispin. its domesday assets were: 1Â½ hides; part of a mill worth 2s, 4 ploughs, woodland worth 30 hogs. it rendered Â£7.surrey domesday book the mansion at chessington world of adventures known today as the burnt stub was originally built in 1348. in the english civil war it became a royalist stronghold and was razed to the ground by oliver cromwell's parliamentary forces giving it its modern name. the site became an inn and was then rebuilt on a grander scale from the 18th century by the vere barker family in a neo-gothic victorian style. the grounds were turned into a zoo in 1931 by reginald goddard. chessington zoo became part of the tussauds group in 1978 and is now operated as a theme park. burnt stub had no public access until 2003 when it became an attraction called hocus pocus hall.leisure/tourism geographies: practices and geographical knowledge by david crouch, 1999, routledge,isbn 0-415-18109-7 thumb|map of chessington in the 1880s chessington hall has a place in 18th-century literary history, as home of samuel crisp, who was a failed playwright and close friend of fanny burney. chessington road recreation groun
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