EGHAM, a town in the Chertsey parliamentary division of Surrey, England, on the Thames, 21 m. W.S.W. of London on the Southern railway. Pop. of urban district The church of St. John the Baptist is a reconstruction of 1817; it con tains monuments by John Flaxman. Above the right bank of the river a low elevation, Cooper's hill, commands fine views over the winding river valley, and over Windsor Great Park to the west. On the hill was the Royal Indian Civil Engineering college, com monly called Cooper's Hill college. Cooper's hill also gave its name to a famous poem of Sir John Denham (1643) . A large and handsome building, surrounded by extensive grounds, houses the Royal Holloway College for Women (1886) , founded by Thomas Holloway. In the neighbourhood is the sanatorium of the same founder (1885) for the treatment of mental ailments. Within the parish, bordering the river, is the famous field of Runnymede, with the eyot or small island of Magna Charta lying off it in the stream (but situated in Buckinghamshire). The parish also in cludes the picturesque grounds and artificial lake of Virginia Water at the south end of Windsor Park, formed c. 175o, by the brothers Thomas and Paul Sandby.