Wallington, Surrey Genealogy

England   Surrey   Surrey Parishes

Parish History
WALLINGTON, a hamlet, in the parish of Beddington, union of Croydon, Second division of the hundred of Wallington, E. division of Surrey, 2¾ miles (W. by S.) from Croydon; containing 934 inhabitants. This place, called in Domesday Book Woleton, gives name to the hundred. Here was formerly a chapel, pulled down in 1791; it had latterly been used as a stable and cart-house. The building was of stone and flints: on each side of the east window was a niche, of rich pointed architecture; and at the south-east corner was another niche, for holy water. On the road to the village of Beddington are some national schools, built in 1843, at the cost of £1300.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 440-444. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51371 Date accessed: 14 April 2011.

Wallington was united with Beddington Parish by the year 1800 (see Beddington).

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Probate records
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