Staines, a pretty little town of Middlesex, on the Thames (spanned here by a fine granite bridge), 6 m. SE. of Windsor; St. Mary's church has a tower designed by Inigo Jones; has breweries, mustard-mills, and other factories; in the neighbourhood are Runnymede and Cooper's Hill (q.v.).
Population (circa 1900) given as 5,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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