Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLANDON (East)

CLANDON (East), a parish in Guildford district, Surrey; near the river Wey, 3½ miles SSE of Woking r. station, and 4½ NE by E of Guildford. Post town, West Clandon, under Guildford. Acres, 1, 449. Real property, £1, 691. Pop., 283. Houses, 55. The property is divided among a few. Hatchlands was the seat and death-place of Admiral Boscawen; and is now the seat of Colonel Sumner. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £152.* Patron, the Earl of Lovelace. The church is decorated English, and good; but has been defaced by plaster. Goffe, the poet, who flourished in the early part of the 17th century, was rector.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: East Clandon CP/AP       Guildford RegD/PLU       Surrey AncC
Place names: CLANDON     |     CLANDON EAST     |     EAST CLANDON
Place: East Clandon

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