Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OXSHOT, Ockshot, or Oakshade

OXSHOT, Ockshot, or Oakshade, a hamlet in Stoke-D' Abernon parish, Surrey; 3 miles N N W of Leatherhead. It has a post-office, of the name of Ockshot-street, under Leatherhead, and a national schoolfounded, in 1820, by the Duchess of Kent. Pop., 200.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Surrey AncC
Place names: OAKSHADE     |     OCKSHOT     |     OCKSHOT STREET     |     OXSHOT     |     OXSHOT OCKSHOT OR OAKSHADE
Place: Oxshott

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