TOWTING-GRAVENEY, (Surrey) or TOWTING-UPPER and LOWER, called TOWTON-BECK, near Stretham common. The former lies in the
road from Southwark to Epsom, and has several fine seats of gentlemen and citizens of London, particularly the house and
gardens of the Batemans family. The Lower is 2 m. S. W. of Wandsworth. The Earl of Lindsey and Ld. Gray had their seats
here in the last century. In Upper-Towting fronting the road to Mitcham, there is an hos. founded in 1709, by the mother
of Sir J. Bateman, Ld. mayor of London in 1717, for 6 poor almswomen, to be nominated by the eldest heir of the family.