SUNBURY  , a

borough and the county seat of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Susquehanna river about 53 M. by rail N. by E. of Harrisburg . Pop . (190o), 981o, of whom 197 were foreign-born; (1910 U.S. census) 13,770 . It is served by the Pennsylvania, the Northern Central (controlled by the Pennsylvania) and the Philadelphia & Reading railways . Sunbury's principal industry is the manufacture of silk; the Pennsylvania railway has repair shops here . The total value of the borough's factory products increased from $1,868,157 M 1900 to $2,592,829 in 1905, or 38.8% . The borough stands on the site of the old Indian village, Shamokin, which was occupied by Delawares, Senecas and Tutelos, and was long the most prominent Indian village in the province; in 1747-1755 there was a Moravian mission here . Owing to the strategic importance of the place the provincial government erected Fort Augusta here in 1756; during the War of Independence many of the fugitives from the Wyoming Massacre came to this fort . Sunbury was first surveyed in 1772 and was incorporated as a borough in 1787 . SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, an urban district in the Uxbridge parliamentary division of Middlesex, England, 17 m . S.W. of St Paul's Cathedral, London, on a branch of the London & South Western railway . Pop .

(19o1), 4544• It is a favourite

riverside resort and has grown considerably as a residential district . The church of St Mary, Byzantine in style, dates from 1752 . There are pumping works and filtration beds for the water-supply of London . To the north-east is Kempton Park, the manor-house of which was a royal residence early in the 14th century . The park is famous for its race-meetings, the principal fixture being the Jubilee Handicap; established in 1$87 . The manor was granted by Edward the Confessor to Westminster Abbey, and passed in the 13th century to the see of London and in the 16th to the Crown; but was not so held later than 1603 .