Warlingham, Surrey Genealogy

England   Surrey   Surrey Parishes

Parish History
WARLINGHAM (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Godstone, Second division of the hundred of Tandridge, E. division of Surrey, 4¾ miles (S. S. E.) from Croydon; containing 512 inhabitants. The parish comprises, with Chelsham, 5091 acres, of which 479 are common or waste. The living is a vicarage, endowed with the rectorial tithes, and valued in the king's books at £11. 12. 11.: net income, £471; patron, A. D. Wigsell, Esq. The church was repaired in 1842. On Warlingham Green is a Wesleyan meeting-house. H. Atwood, in 1675, bequeathed two annuities of £10 each to the curate, and erected an almshouse, which he endowed with £20 per annum, for four aged persons.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 464-470. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51377 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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