Laleham [SEP] located next to body of water
Laleham
Laleham is a village beside the River Thames, immediately downriver from Staines-upon-Thames in the Spelthorne borough of Surrey. Until 1965 the village was in Middlesex.
In its south is Laleham Park by the River Thames. Across green belt farmland to its north and south east are Ashford and Shepperton, to its east are woods then Queen Mary Reservoir. Penton Hook Lock is on the border with Staines and Laleham Burway is directly across the river. Centred south along the towpath or the humped river road is
was a leat cut by order of the Abbot of Chertsey Abbey in the eleventh century to supply power to the mill closest to their monastery/abbey and water their numerous fish ponds.
The Abbey River with the Thames encircles Laleham Burway also known as the Abbey Mead, which belonged to Chertsey Abbey founded in the 7th century AD of Anglo Saxon England. It forms a better-drained flood meadow beside the Thames and provides a mill race (leat). The bulk of its large island thereby formed passed to Laleham manor