Kingston - on - Thames.

Named King’s-stone from a large, square block of stone near the town hall, on which the early Anglo-Saxon monarchs knelt when they were anointed to the kingly office: Edward the Elder, Athelstan, Edmund, Ethelred, Edred, Edwy, and Edward the Martyr received on this stone the royal unction. The stone is now enclosed with railings.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Kings
Kings, etc., of England
Kings have Long Hands
Kings may override Grammar
Kingly Titles
Kingdom Come
Kingsale
Kingsley’s Stand
Kingston Bridge
Kingston - on - Thames
Kingstown (Ireland)
Kingswood Lions
Kinless Loons
Kiosk
Kirk of Skulls
Kirke-grim
Kirke’s Lambs
Kirkrapine
Kismet
Kiss