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SURREY. 



SURREY. 



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Surrey comprehends the parliamentary boroughs of Southwark, 

 Lambetb, GCILDFOIID, and REIGATE ; the now disfranchised boroughs 

 of Haslemere, BLEcmXfiLEr, and Gatton ; the market-towns of CHERT- 

 BET, CROYDON, DORKINO, EPSOM, FAIINHAU, GoDAi.Minu.and KINGSTON ; 

 the suburban villages of Kotherhitbe, Bermondsey, Newington, Wai- 

 worth, Camberwell, Peckham, Dulwich, Norwood, Brixton, Kennington, 

 Clapham, Wandsworth, Putney, Battersea, Tootiug, and Streatham ; 

 and the remoter, but extensive villages of Mortlake, Barnes, Kew, 

 RICHMOND, Wimbledon, Merton, Mitcham, Ewell, Carahalton, Bed- 

 dington, Leatherhead, Walton-on-Thames, Esher, and Egham. South- 

 wark, Lambeth, and some other of the places which fonn part of 

 LONDON, are spoken of in our account of the metropolis ; the places 

 printed in small capitals are described under their respective titles ; 

 the remainder, with the other villages of importance, we notice here, 

 with their respective populations in 1851 : 



Gatton is 2 miles X.E. from Reigate. Some Roman antiquities have 

 been found here. Gatton first sent members to parliament in 29 

 Henry VI., and returned two member* down to the time of its 

 disfrancliisement by the Reform Act. The parish now contains only 

 37 houses and 172 inhabitant*. Gatton House ia a handsome residence 

 in an extensive and beautiful park. Until the disfranchisement of the 

 borough, the proprietor of Gattou House chose the members. Upper 

 Gatton House is a noble building standing in a spacious park. Some 

 quarries of stone are worked. 



lla.ileme.rt, population of the parish 955, is 12 mile* S. from Guild- 

 ford, on the road to Chichester. A charter granted by Queen Elizabeth 

 in the 3-tu year of her reign speaks of the antiquity and populous- 

 nesa of the town, but refer* to it* existing impoverishment from the 

 extinction of its fair and market. The town occupies an elevated 

 site, and is very clean ; the streets are irregularly laid out, and only 

 partially paved. The parochial chapel, on the north side of the town, 

 is an ancient structure with a small square tower at the west end. 

 The Independents have a meeting-house ; there are a National school 

 and a literary institution. The market on Tuesday is of little import- 

 ance: cattle fairs are held on May 13th and September 26th. The 

 principal trade is in wood-turning; there are three extensive paper- 

 mills. Haslemere sent members to parliament until the disfranchise- 

 racnt of the borough by the Reform Act. 



Ath, population 472, is on the border next Hampshire, about 

 7 miles X.K. from Farnbam. About 2 miles W. from Ash, at Alder- 

 suott, in Hampshire, an encampment has been formed in the present 

 year (1851) by the government, for the purpose of training the 

 soldiers to the habits of camp life, and instructing them in the best 

 modes of mitigating the hardships of a campaign. Jiagthot, 9 miles 

 S.W. from Egbam, population of the pariah of Windlesham, 1794, 

 is on the Hampshire border. Bagahot Heath i* now inclosed. 

 The church was erected at the end of the 17th century. There 

 is a National school Bagihot Lodge is a royal hunting seat. In 

 the vicinity are extensive nuraery-grounda. lianut, 7 miles W.S.W. 

 fpnii London by the South- Western railway, population 1879, a 

 suburban village on the right bank of the Thames, contains seve- 

 ral good residences. Besides the parish church, which is ancient, 

 but much altered, there are a chapel of ease at Castelnau, and a 

 National school. It was in a room atUched to the house of Jacob 

 Tonson at Barnes that the celebrated Kit-Cat club held its meetings. 

 Cowley the poet resided at Barnes Elms. Baitertea, population of 

 the parish 10,560, ia a suburban village on the Thames nearly oppo- 

 site Chelsea, with which it is connected by a wooden bridge. The 

 parish church is a plain brick building erected in 1777 : in it is a 

 monument by Roubiliac to Bolingbroke, who was born and died at 

 Battervea. There are in Batternea a preparatory training establish- 

 ment of the National Society, which had 1 00 students in residence in 

 July 1854. Much of the ground in Battersea is occupied as morket- 

 gardeus. A new park is now being formed in Batter*ea Fields ; 

 and a suspension-bridge to connect it with the north side of the 

 Thames is being constructed, lleddinyton, 2 miles W. from Croydon, 

 population 522, has a very handsome church, partly of tho decorated 

 and partly of the perpendicular style of architecture, which has been 

 recently restored. There is a National school Beddington House is 

 a noble Elizabethan mansion, partly rebuilt in 1 709. The Wandle 

 here turns some snuff- and flour-mills. Bermondity, population of 

 the entire parish 48,128, is a suburb of London and the seat of a 

 Poor-Law Union. [ LONDON.] It lies on the Thames, between South- 

 wark and Rotherhithe. The old church is a building of little archi- 

 tectural pretension ; there are three new churches, chapels for 

 Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, Baptutu, and Roman Catholics ; 

 National, British, Infant, and Roman Catholic schools, and a Roman 

 Catholic convent. Near the waterside are wharfs, and the various 

 trades connected with shipping are carried on. In the parish are 

 numerous extensive tan-yards. Brixton, population 14, CIO, is a 

 hamlet of Lambeth parish, and contains many genteel residences. 

 There are a district church, St. Matthew's, at the foot of Brixton 

 Hill; two other Episcopal places of worship, chapels for Inde- 

 pendents and other Dwsenters, and National, British, and Infant 

 tfltvtHflt On Brixton Hill is a handsome building for the St. Ann's 

 Society schools. CamtxrveU, population 54,607, is an extensive parish, 

 extending from the boundaries of Rotherhithe and Berruondsey on 

 the north to Croydon on the south. It i the seat of a Poor- Law 



Union. [LONDON.] The village of Camberwell consists of four prin- 

 cipal thoroughfares meeting in an open greeu, and leadiug respectively 

 to London by Walworth, to Deptford by Peckham, to Kennington 

 and to Norwood by Denmark and Herno .hills. These thoroughfares 

 are lined with good houses; many new houses have been erected 

 within the last few years. The parish church is a spacious and very 

 handsome edifice in the decorated style, erected from the designs of 

 Brandon and Wyatt in place of the old church, which was destroyed by 

 fire in 1841. There are also St. George's church ; Emmanuel church ; 

 Camden church ; St. Paul's, Herne Hill, a small but graceful and well- 

 finished church in the decorated style ; a handsome new gothic chapel 

 at Camberwell Green for Independents ; several other places of worship 

 for Dissenters ; National, British, and Infant schools ; a proprietary 

 grammar school ; and a literary and scientific institute. Canhalton 

 is on the edge of Banstead Downs, 3 miles W. from Croydon, popu- 

 lation 2411. Tbe river Wandle flows through the village, expanding 

 in the centre of it into a wide and ornamental sheet of water. Sevenil 

 corn, oil, snuff, drug, flock, and paper-mills are worked by the Wandle. 

 There are also some print-works; brewing, leather-dressing, and 

 coach-making are carried on. The church is ancient, but has been 

 much altered. There are parish schools. A government preparatory 

 school for officers of the Royal Artillery and Engineers was established 

 h -re in 1848. Cheam, 2 miles E. from Epsom, population 1137, is on 

 the line of tho Epsom railway, and contains some good residences. 

 The church was rebuilt in 1639; there are National schools. At 

 Cheam was Nonsuch, the costly palace of Henry VIII. : only a few 

 fragments of it remain. Chobham, 1 miles S.W. from Chertsey, popu- 

 lation 2069, is pleasantly situated on the Bourn Brook, a feeder of 

 the Wey. The church is an ancient edifice ; a chapel of ease was 

 erected in 1842 at the west end. The B.iptists have two places of 

 worship. At Chobham Park are the remains of an old mansion. 

 In 1854 an experimental encampment was held on Chobham Common. 

 Clapham, population 16,290, lies S.\V. of Stoekwell, on the road from 

 London to Epsom. Clapham Common, an open space of about 200 

 acres, partly in this parish and partly in Battersea, is planted with 

 tree.*, so as to present the appearance of a park, and is surrounded by 

 handsome houses. At one corner of the common is the parish church , 

 a plain brick building. There are also the district churches of 

 St. Paul's, erected in 1S14 on the site of the old parish church; St. 

 James's, a gothic structure erected ia 1S29 in Clapham Park ; and 

 St John's, a Grecian building erected in 1842 in the Clapham road. 

 A very handsome Roman Catholic chur.li, in tho decorated style, has 

 been lately erected in connection with a Redemptorist convent. 

 There are also a handsome new Independent chapel, ia the decorated 

 style, with a lofty spire, and several other Dissenting places of 

 worship; a Grammar school; Parochial, National, British, and Infant 

 schools ; a literary institute; a savings bank; and the British Orphan 

 Asylum. Cobham, population 1691, is pleasantly situated on the 

 right bank of the Mole, 6 miles W. by a from Leatherhead. Tho 

 church U ancient, chiefly of the decorated style. On the Mole are 

 extensive mills for carding woollen rags. Dulwich, population 1632, 

 lies in a hollow about 2 miles S. from the village of Camberwell, an. I 

 contains a number of genteel residences. The most important buildiug 

 is the College of God's Gift, which was repaired and much improved 

 in appearance a few years ago, under the superintendence of Sir C. 

 Barry. The college was founded and endowed, and the buildiug 

 erected, by Edward Allcyn in 1614-19. It consists of a master and 

 warden, who must be of the same name as tho founder, four fellows, 

 six poor brethren, six poor sisters; and of 12 poor boys, who are to 

 be educated and maintained from the age of 6 to 12 years and then 

 apprenticed. Behind the college U a picture-gallery, containing some 

 fine paintings, chiefly by the old masters. It is open to the public 

 without charge, by tickets, every day except Friday and Sunday. In 

 the hamlet are a chapel of ease and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. 

 E'jham, population 4482, is near the north-western boundary of the 

 county, on the bank of the Thames. It is united to Staines by a 

 handsome granite bridge. The village consists of a long street, which 

 in lighted with gas and paved. The parish church is a modern brick 

 building; there is a new district church at Virginia water. There 

 are places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists and ludepeudents ; 

 National schools ; Strode's charity school ; and a literary institution. 

 Virginia water, Englefield Green, Cooper's Hill, and Runnimede, 

 where Magna Charta was signed by King John, are in the parish. 

 A fair ia held on Englefield Green ; Egham races are held annually 

 on Runnimede. Ether, 4 miles S.W. from Kingston, population 1441, 

 is pleasantly situated near the right bank of the Mole. At Eshcr is 

 Claremont, the residence of the Princes!) Charlotte and the place 

 where the died : it h now held in trust for Leopold, king of the 

 Belgians, and is at present the residence of the widow and sous of 

 Louis Philippe, the late king of tho French. The mansion wag 

 erected by the celebrated Lord Clive. There is a new church at 

 Eaher, towards the erection of which the King of the Belgians sub- 

 scribed lOOOi. The Quakers hare a meeting-house; and there is a 

 National school. Ewell, 14 mile N.E. from Epsom, population 2186, 

 was once a market-town. A new church, in the early English style, 

 was erected in 1848: the tower of the old church is left standing. 

 There are National and Infant schools. Gunpowder-mills, potteries, 

 and brick-works give some employment, frimley, population of the 



