A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WALLINGTON, a township, a chapelry, and a hundred, in Surrey. The township lies on the river Wandle and on the Epsom railway, 2½ miles WSW of Croydon; is supposed to have been a Roman station; has yielded many Roman relics; and contains a village and a r. station of its own name, a postal pillar-box under Carshalton, and Beddington-Corner post-office under Croydon. Real property, £4,910. Pop., 983. Houses 195.—The chapelry includes the village, is in Beddington parish, and was constituted in 1867. Pop. in 1868, about 650. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, not reported.* Patron, N. Bridges, Esq. The church was built in 1867, and is in the early English style.-The hundred contains 12 parishes; and is cut into two divisions, firstandsecond. Acres, 23,581 and 14,825. Pop. in 1851, 22,343 and 11,607; in 1861, 46,686. Houses, 8,260.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township, a chapelry, and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Surrey AncC |
| Place: | Wallington |
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