50,000) through the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society to purchase a significant land parcel,[1] for the relocation and construction of Kingswood College.

[2] Randles's significant gift came as a result of a visit to the district by Rev.

William Goudie (1857 - 1922) and Robert Simpson, a prominent member of the laymen's missionary movement, who on return to England convinced Randles of the benefit of such a contribution.

[3] The area was named as Randles Hill by the founder of Kingswood College, Louis Edmund Blaze.

The Randles Hill station is actually a railway halt located on the Matale Line, close to the level crossing at Mulgampola, between Peradeniya Junction and Kandy railway station.