Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROBINHOOD-GATE, or Kingston-Vale

ROBINHOOD-GATE, or Kingston-Vale, a chapelry in Kingston-upon-Thames parish, Surrey; on a smallaffluent of the river Thames, 2½ miles N W of Wimbledon r. station, and 3 N E of Kingston. It was constituted in 1847; and it has a post-office, of the name of Kingston-Vale, under Putney, London, S W. Pop., 270. Houses, 49. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, not reported. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kingston upon Thames CP/AP       Surrey AncC
Place names: KINGSTON VALE     |     ROBINHOOD GATE     |     ROBINHOOD GATE OR KINGSTON VALE
Place: Kingston Vale

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