Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TANDRIDGE

TANDRIDGE, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Surrey. The village stands 2 miles NNE of God stone r. station, and 6 E by N of Redhill; and has a post-office under Redhill. The parish comprises 3,944 acres, and is in Godstone district. Real property, £4,572. Pop., 621. Houses, 117. The manor belongs to Sir W. Clayton, Bart. T. Court, T. Hall, Rooks Nest, the Priory, and Southland s are chief residences. An Augustinian priory was founded here in the time of Richard I., and was given, at the dissolution, to the Redes. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £150.* Patron,H. Turner, Esq. The church is decorated English, and has been repaired and enlarged. There are national schools.-The hundred is cut into two divisions, and contains 15 parishes. Acres, 39,465 and 13,393. Pop. in 1851, 9,776 and 1,833; in 1861, 11,844. Houses, 2,223.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Tandridge CP/AP       Tandridge Hundred       Surrey AncC
Place: Tandridge

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