Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHARLWOOD

CHARLWOOD, a parish in Reigate district, Surrey; on an affluent of the river Mole, 3½ miles SW by W of Horley r. station, and 6½ S by W of Reigate. It has a post office under Crawley. Acres, 7,000. Real property, £6,668. Pop., 1,542. Houses, 268. The property is subdivided. Charlwood Park and Charlwood Place are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £550.* Patron, H.Wise, Esq. The church is partly Norman, and was repaired in 1859. There are an Independent chapel, an endowed school, and charities £28.


(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: Charlwood AP/CP       Reigate RegD/PLU       Surrey AncC
Place: Charlwood

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