A Geographical Dictionary of England and Wales

WANGFORD, 6 miles E. from Halesworth. Popula. 746. Here there was a Cluniac Cell, founded before the year 1160, by Doudo Asini; yearly value 30l. 9s. 5d., now worth 6091. 8s. 4d.; granted, 32 Hen. VIII., to Thomas Duke of Norfolk.

WHEPSTEAD, 4 miles S. from Bury-St. Edmunds. Popula. 664. WHERSTEAD, 24 miles S. from Ipswich. Popula. 242.

WHIXOE, 34 miles S.W. from Clare. Popula. 147.

WANGFORD, 4 miles N. from Milden- WICKHAM-MARKET, 5 miles N.E.

hall. Popula. 63.

from Woodbridge. Popula. 1,015.

WANTISDEN, 4 miles N.W. from Or- WICKHAM-SKEITH, 2 miles N. from ford. Popula. 128.

WASHBROOK, 5 miles E. from Hadleigh. Popula. 377. WATTISFIELD, 5 miles N.E. from Ixworth. Popula. 596. WATTISHAM, 2 miles N.E. from Bil

deston. Popula. 193. WELNETHAM (Great), 4 miles S.E. from Bury-St.-Edmunds. Popula. 399. Here there was a House of Crossed Friars, founded 2 Edw. I.; granted, 31 Hen. VIII., to Antony Rouse. WELNETHAM (Little), 35 miles S.E.

from Bury-St.-Edmunds. Popula. 176. WENHAM (Great), 34 miles S.E. from

Hadleigh. Popula. 205. WENHAM (Little), 3 miles S.E. from Hadleigh. Popula. 90. WENHASTON with MELLS, 24 miles

S.E. from Halesworth. Popula. 887. WESTERFIELD, 2 miles N.E. from Ipswich. Popula. 289.

WESTHALL, 3 miles N.E. from Halesworth. Popula. 440.

Mendlesham. Popula. 523. Here there
was a Monastery, built in the reign of
King Stephen, by Robert de Salco
Villa, Knt.

WILBY, 5 miles N.N.W. from Framling-
ham. Popula. 576.
WILLINGHAM, 4 miles S. from Beccles.
Popula. 170.

WILLISHAM, 24 miles S.S.W. from

Needham. Popula. 173.

WINGFIELD, 9 miles W. from Hales. worth, and 34 miles S. from Harleston. Popula. 578. Here there was a College, built in the year 1362, by Lady Alianor, relict of Sir John Wingfield; yearly value 691. 14s. 5d., now worth 1,3941. 8s. 4d.; granted by Edw. VI., to the Bishop of Norwich.

WINSTON, 1 mile S. from Debenham. Popula. 366.

WICKHAMBROOK, 64 miles N. from Clare. Popula. 1,295.

WISSETT, 2 miles N.W. from Halesworth. Popula. 435.

WESTHORPE, 4 miles S. from Botesdale. WISTON or WISSINGTON, & mile S.W.
from Neyland. Popula. 246.
Popula. 234.
WESTLETON, 24 miles W. from Dun- WITHERSDALE, 6 miles N.W. from

wick. Popula. 788.

WESTLEY, 2 miles W. from Bury-St.

Edmunds. Popula. 124.

WESTON, 24 miles S. from Beccles. Popula. 179.

WESTON-MARKET, 5 miles N.E. from Ixworth. Popula. 532. Fair, Aug. 15, a small peddling fair.

WETHERDEN, 34 miles N.W. from Stow

Market. Popula. 468. WETHERINGSETT.-See Brockford. 4 miles S. from Eye.

WEYBREAD, 9 miles N.W. from Halesworth, and 2 miles S. from Harleston. Popula. 680.

WHATFIELD, 24 miles S.E. from Bildeston. Popula. 326.

Halesworth, and 3 miles S.E. from
Harleston. Popula. 168.

WITHERSFIELD, 1 mile N.W. from
Haverhill. Popula. 484.

WITNESHAM, 4 miles. N.N.E. from Ipswich. Popula. 515.

WOODBRIDGE, 78 miles N.E. from

London. Popula. 4,060. Market, Wed.; fairs, April 5, Oct. 2, toys; Oct. 21, cattle. Here there was an Austin Priory, founded before the time of Edw. II., by Ernaldus Ruffus; yearly value 501. 3s. 54d., now worth 1,003l. 9s. 2d. ; granted, 19 Eliz., to Thomas Sexford, Master of Requests.

WOOLPIT, 5 miles N.W. from StowMarket. Popula. 801. Fairs, Sept. 16, horses; Sept. 19, cattle and toys.

WOOLVERSTONE, 4 miles S. from Ips- | WRATTING (Little), 1 mile N.E. from
wich. Popula. 269.
Haverhill. Popula. 183.
WORDWELL, 64 miles W. from Ixworth. WRENTHAM, 5 miles N. from South-
Popula. 48.

wold. Popula. 995.

WORLINGHAM, 2 miles S.E. from Bec- WYCKS-BISHOP, in St. Clement's pa

cles. Popula. 221.

WORLINGWORTH, 4 miles N.W. from

Framlingham. Popula. 685.

WORLINGTON, 1 mile S.W. from Mildenhall. Popula. 360.

rish, Ipswich, and popula. included therein.

WYVERSTONE, 4 miles N.W. from Mendlesham. Popula. 260.

WORTHAM, 21 miles N.E. from Botes- YAXFORD, 5 miles S. from Halesworth.

dale. Popula. 935.

Popula. 1,073.

WRATTING (Great), 2 miles N. from YAXLEY, 1 mile W. from Eye. PopuHaverhill. Popula. 263.

la. 425.

SURREY.

AN INLAND COUNTY, bounded on the North by Middlesex, and a part of Bucks, from which it is separated by the Thames; on the East by Kent; on the South by Sussex; and, on the West by Berks and Hants. It is about 37 miles in length, and 27 broad. The hundreds are, Blackheath, Brixton, Copthorne, Effingham, Elmbridge, Farnham, Godalming, Godley, Kingston, Reigate, Tandridge, Wallington, Woking, and Wotton. The rivers are, the Thames (by which it is bounded on the North), the Wey, the Mole, and the Wandle. The Markettowns are Chertsey, Croydon, Dorking, Epsom, Ewell, Farnham, Godalming, Guildford, Haslemere, Kingston, Reigate, Southwark, and Woking. It is in the PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, chiefly in the DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER, but partly in that of CANTERBURY, and it is in the HOME CIRCUIT. Surrey sends 14 members to parliament; two for the county, and two each for the boroughs of Southwark, Guildford, Reigate, Haslemere, Blechingly, and Gatton. It contains 758 square miles, or 485,120 acres, and 141 parishes. It had 12 monastic establishments, and 29 public charities; it has 1 parish with no church; 3 parishes with less than 100 inhabitants, 30 parishes with no parsonage-houses, 12 parishes with parsonage-houses unfit

to live in the POOR-RATES were, in 1818, 293,176l. 14s. 114d.; the number of PAUPERS is 22,921; the rental of the county, according to a return made to parliament in 1818, was 1,519,172l. 18s. 9d.; the population, according to a return laid before parliament in 1821, was 398,658; the number of inhabited houses in 1821 was 64,790; the number of uninhabited houses at the same period, 2,741; the poor-rates bear the proportion of one-sixth of the rental; the number of paupers, compared with the number of houses, is one to every three; the poorrates in 1776 were 48,510l.; the number of persons to every square mile of this county is 525; the number of acres to a person, 1; the number of acres to a house, 7; the male population, in 1821, was 189,871; the families employed in agriculture were 14,944 in number; the families employed in trade or handicraft were 46,811 in number; the number of other families was 27,051; the agricultural male population was 31,951; able labourers, 15,975; the number of acres in this county to every able-bodied labourer is 30. With the exception of a ridge of hills running from one end of the county to the other; that is, from Farnham, by Guildford, Dorking, and Reigate, to Westerham; Surrey is a rather level county; but the ridge of

chalk hills, well known as the Surrey Hills, is a high and almost unbroken ridge, which comes out of Wiltshire, through Hampshire into Surrey, and thence through Kent to the sea at Folkestone. The striking characteristic, however, of this county is, its vast heaths and commons, the barrenness of the greater part of which is proverbial. Bagshot - Heath, Purbright - Common, Cowbridge-Common, Woking-Heath,

Ockham-Heath, Epsom-Downs, Hurtwood-Common, and Thursley-Common, Frensham-Common, and Hind-Head, are the largest tracts of waste. With the exception of Epsom-Downs, these are all either dreary and uncultivated wastes, or they are here and there planted with Scotch firs. The southern side of the county is called the Weald; it extends from Haslemere to the Eastern corner, and is about four or five miles in breadth. The soil is a cold, stiff clay, producing excellent timber and coppice wood, good wheat, oats, and beans; but it is

live on. Surrey has no mines of any
kind; and its manufactures are not of
importance sufficient to make them wor-
thy of being noticed here.

ABINGER, 44 miles S.W. from Dorking.
Popula. 742.

ADDINGTON, 4 miles S.E. from Croy-
don. Popula. 354.
ALBURY, 44 miles E.S.E. from Guildford.

Popula. 765. Here there was an Austin
Priory, built in the reign of Rich. I.,
by Rual de Calva; yearly value 2941.
18s. 44d., now worth 5,8981. 7s. 6d.;
granted, 36 Hen. VIII., to Sir Antony
Brown.

ALFOLD, 74 miles S.E. from Godalming.
Popula. 470.

ARTINGTON, in St. Nicholas parish,
Guildford, and popula. included therein.
14 miles distant S.

ASH, 44 miles N.E. from Farnham. Po-
pula. 1,867.

ASHTEAD, 4 miles S.W. from Ewell.
Popula. 579.

BADSHOT, in Farnham parish, and po-
pula. included therein. 2 miles distant
N.E.

BAGSHOT, in Windlesham parish, and
popula. included therein. 1 mile dis-
tant S.W. Fair, July 15.
BANSTEAD, 3 miles S.E. from Ewell.
Popula. 940.

chiefly in wood. Northward of this,
comes a line of sandy country, running
parallel with it, and between it and the
ridge of chalk before described. This,
though sandy, is (where the heaths and
commons do not intervene) a fertile dis-
trict, bearing wheat, barley, oats, tur-
nips, and other crops. To the north of
the chalk ridge is a district, having in
it the extremes of fertility and barren-
ness; the fertile right bank of the
Thames, and the extraordinarily barren
Bagshot and other heaths. The county
is not renowned for its agriculture. Its
produce is wheat, barley, oats; but it
cannot be said to produce largely either
of these. Near London, cabbages, po-
tatoes, carrots, and other vegetables,
are grown in large quantities for the
markets of London; and, at Farnham,
about one thousand acres of superior
land immediately surrounding that town
are cultivated exclusively in hops, which
are so renowned as to bear a higher price
than hops from any other part of the
kingdom. The horses of the county
are heavy, black animals. The horned
cattle, near London, are of the Holder-BETCHWORTH, 14 mile E. from Dor-
ness breed: but elsewhere they are
either Sussex or Devonshire, or a cross

BARNES, 6 miles W.S.W. from London.
Popula. 1,240.

between these. The sheep are most of the Southdown breed, though some Dorsets are kept. On the heaths is a little breed, called heath-croppers; small, hornless, and coarse-woolled, and kept only for the purpose of browsing on the heaths, which they are hardy enough to

BATTERSEA, 3 miles S.W. from London.
Popula. 4,992.

BEDDINGTON, 2 miles W.S.W. from
Croydon. Popula. 1,327.
BERMONDSEY, 2 miles S.E. from Lon-
don. Popula. 25,235. Here there was
a Cluniac Abbey, built about the year
1089, by Aylwin Child, citizen of Lon-
don; yearly income 5481, 2s. 54d., now
worth 10,9621. 9s. 2d.; granted, 33
Hen. VIII., to Sir Richard Southwell.

king. Popula. 909.

BISLEY, 64 miles S.W. from Chertsey.
Popula, 273.

BLECHINGLY, 45 miles E. from Rei-
gate. Popula. 1,187. Fairs, June 22;
Nov. 2, horses, bullocks, and toys. A
borough sending two members to parlia
ment: right of election in the borough-

holders only, without the bailiff: number of voters, about 130, but are all the property of one individual. BOOKHAM (Great), 24 miles S.W. from

Leatherhead. Popula. 732. Fair, Old Michaelmas-day, cattle, horses, &c. BOOKHAM (Little), 3 miles S.W. from Leatherhead. Popula. 153.

BOURN, in Farnham parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant S. BRAMLEY, 3 miles S.S.E. from Guildford. Popula. 707. BRIXTON.CAUSEWAY, in Lambeth rish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles S. from Blackfriars-Bridge. BUCKLAND, 2 miles W. from Reigate. Popula. 292.

BURGHAM, in Worplesdon parish, and

popula. included therein. BURNWOOD, in Walton-on-Thames parish, and popula. included therein. BURSTOW, 64 miles S.S.E. from Reigate. Popula. 715.

BYFLEET, 4 miles S. from Chertsey. Popula. 427.

CAMBERWELL, 3 miles S.E, from London. Popula. 17,876. Fair, Aug. 18, toys, &c.

CAPEL, 6 miles S. from Dorking. Popula. 876.

CARSHALTON, otherwise CASEHORTON, 3 miles W. from Croydon. Popula. 1,775.

CATTERHAM, 7 miles N.E. from Reigate. Popula. 435.

CHALDON, 5 miles N.E. from Reigate. Popula. 166.

CHARLWOOD, 6 miles S.S.W. from Reigate. Popula. 1,134. CHART, in Frensham parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles distant S.E. CHEAM, 5 miles W.S.W. from Croydon, and 1 mile N.E. from Ewell. Popula. 792.

CHELSHAM, 64 miles S.E. from Croydon. Popula. 217. CHERTSEY, 20 miles W.S.W. from Lon

don. Popula. 4,279. Market, Wed.; fairs, first Monday in Lent, horses, cattle, and hops; May 14, horses and cattle; Aug. 6, Sept. 25, horses, cattle, and hogs. Here there was a Benedictine Abbey, built in the year 666, by Erkenwald Bishop of London; destroyed,

with the Abbot and ninety Monks killed, in the Danish wars; rebuilt by King Edgar; income 74. 13s. 64d. yearly, now worth 14,893l. 10s. 10d.; granted, 7 Edw. VI., to Sir William Fitz Williams.

CHESSINGTON, 2 miles W. from Ewell. Popula. 150.

CHIDDINGFOLD, 4 miles N.E. from Haslemere. Popula. 999.

CHILWORTH, 2 miles S.E. from Guildford. Popula. 197.

CHIPSTEAD, 44 miles N.E. from Reigate. Popula. 440.

CHOBHAM, 5 miles S.W. from Chertsey. Popula. 1,719.

CLANDON (East), 4 miles E.N.E. from Guildford. Popula, 230.

CLANDON (West), 34 miles N.E. from Guildford. Popula. 361.

CLAPHAM, 3 miles S.S.W. from London. Popula. 7,151.

CLEYGATE, in Thames-Ditton parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles

distant S.

COBHAM, 74 miles S.W. from Kingston.. Popula. 1,340. Fairs, March 17, Dec. 11, horses and sheep.

COMPTON, 24 miles N. from Godalming. Popula. 423.

COULSDON, 5 miles S.S.W. from Croydon. Popula. 516.

CRANLEY, 64 miles S.E. from Godalming.
Popula. 1,182.
CROWHURST, 12

miles E.S.E. from Reigate. Popula. 214. CROYDON, 10 miles S. from London. Popula. 9,254. Market, Sat.; fairs, Oct. 2, horses, bullocks, toys, and sheep, and noted for walnuts; Oct. 3, 4, toys.

CUDDINGTON. Near Epsom. Popula.

117.

CULVERLANDS, in Farnham parish, and popula. included therein.

DITTON (Long), 2 miles S. from Kings-
ton. Popula. 595.
DITTON (Thames), 2 miles S.W. from
Kingston. Popula. 1,592.
DORKING. 23 miles S.W. from London.

Popula. 3,812. Market, Thurs.; fair,
day before Ascension-day, horses, bul-
locks, sheep, and toys.

DULWICH, in Camberwell parish, and popula. included therein. 14 mile distant S. Fair, Mon. after Trinity-Mon., for toys.

DUNSFOLD, 5 miles S.E. from Godal

ming. Popula: 578.

EFFINGHAM, 3 miles S.W. from Lea

therhead. Popula. 499. EGHAM, 3 miles N.N.W. from Chertsey. Popula. 3,616. Fair, May 30. ELSTEAD, 44 miles S.E. from Farnham. Popula. 608.

EMBER, in Thames-Ditton parish, and HAMBLEDON, 3 miles S. from Godal popula. included therein. 1 mile distant W.

EPSOM, 2 miles S.W. from Ewell. Po

pula. 2,890. Fair, Aug. 5, toys. ESHER, 4 miles S.W. from Kingston. Popula. 1,108. Fairs, Old Bartholomewday, Sept. 4, horses.

EWELL, 13 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 1,737. Market, Thurs.; fairs, May 12, Oct. 29, horses, bullocks, sheep, and toys.

EWHURST, 8 miles S.E. from Godalming. Popula. 821.

FARLEY, 5 miles S.S.E. from Croydon. Popula. 84.

FARNHAM, 38 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 5,413. Market, Thurs.; fairs, Holy-Thurs., June 24, horses, cattle, sheep, hogs; Nov. 13, horses and

cattle.

FETCHAM, 14 mile W. from Leatherhead. Popula. 377.

FRENSHAM, 3 miles S. from Farnham. Popula. 1,433.

FRIMLEY, in Ash parish, and popula.

included therein. 44 miles distant N. GATTON, 24 miles N.E. from Reigate. Popula. 135. A borough, sending two members to parliament: right of election in the freeholders and inhabitants: number of voters, 1.

GODALMING, 34 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 4,098. Market, Sat.; fairs, Feb. 13, horses, cattle, sheep, and hops; July 10, horses, cattle, sheep, and store-pigs.

ming. Popula. 381.

HASCOMB, 3 miles S.E. from Godalming. Popula. 253.

HASLEMERE, 43 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 887. Market, Tuesday; fairs, May 12, Sept. 25, horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs. A borough, sending two members to parliament: right of election in the freeholders resident within the borough: number of voters, 64.

HATCH, in Kingston-upon-Thames parish, and popula. included therein. HEADLEY, 2 miles S.E. from Leather. head. Popula. 184.

HERSHAM, in Walton-on-Thames parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant S.E.

HORLEY, 54 miles S. from Reigate. Popula. 1,063.

HORNE, 64 miles S.E. from Reigate. Popula. 585.

HOOK, in Kingston-upon-Thames parish,

and popula. included therein. 3 miles S. from Kingston.

HORSELL, 54 miles S.S.W. from Chert. sey. Popula. 617.

HORSLEY (East), 7 miles E.N.E. from Guildford. Popula. 192.

HORSLEY (West), 54 miles N.E. from Guildford. Popula. 611. KENNINGTON, in Lambeth parish, and popula. included therein. from Blackfriars-Bridge.

pula. 683.

2 miles S.

GODSTONE, 64 miles E. from Reigate. KEW, 5 miles N. from Kingston. Po-
Popula. 1,210.
GUILDFORD, 30 miles S.W. from Lon-
don. It consists of the parishes of
Holy-Trinity, St. Mary-the-Virgin, and
St. Nicholas. Popula. 3,650. Market,

KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES, 12 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 6,091. Market, Sat.; fairs, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Whit-week, horses and

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