sentences:  After a brief period of operation as a US Air Force base most of the land was sold off for housing; however some of the land was still under military ownership as recent as the mid 1990s.Before 1953, there was only one secondary school in the Chessington area, Moor Lane secondary mixed school, which was opened in 1936.After World War II, large areas of Chessington, east and west of the Leatherhead Road, were scheduled for building development to serve as overspill areas for Surbiton, Kingston and Malden.