Wisley, Surrey Genealogy

England   Surrey   Surrey Parishes

Parish History
WISLEY, a parish, in the union of Guildford. Second division of the hundred of Woking, W. division of Surrey, 2½ miles (N. by E.) from Ripley; containing 155 inhabitants. It is called Wiselei in the Domesday survey, and had a church at that time. The parish is the smallest but one in the hundred, comprising only 825 acres of rateable land: the main road from Ripley to Cobham crosses Wisley heath. The living is a discharged rectory, with the vicarage of Pyrford annexed, valued in the king's books at £40. 19.; net income, £210; patron, the Earl of Onslow: the glebe consists of 61 acres. The church is an ancient edifice in the early English style.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 625-629. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51417 Date accessed: 14 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
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