The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Sunbury-on-Thames
town (1991 pop. 26,240), Surrey, SE England, on the Thames. Sunbury Park with its walled garden is there. Nearby Shepperton has motion-picture studios and a village center from the 17th18th cent. The novelist Thomas Love Peacock lived in the area and is buried in Shepperton.