The New Student's Reference Work/Epsom

Ep′som, a small town market of Surrey, England, fifteen miles southwest of London.  The springs which made Epsom so fashionable a resort in the latter half of the 17th century, gave name to the Epsom salt, formerly made from them.  The church, rebuilt in 1824, contains monuments by Flaxman and Chantrey.  On Banstead Downs, one and a half miles south of the town, the most famous horse-races of the world are held yearly on Derby day.  The grand stand was built in 1829–30 at a cost of $100,000, and seats 7,500 spectators.  Population, 10,915.