An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Malden

 

MALDEN

"MALDEN, a parish in the second division of the hundred of Kingston, county Surrey, 2 miles S.E. of Kingston, its post town, and 2 N.W. of Ewell. It is a station on the Epsom and Leatherhead branch of the South-Western railway. The village, which is small, is situated on a rapid stream called the Hogg's Mill. It is wholly agricultural, but extensive powder mills have been established in the parish. Merton College was founded here in 1264 by Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester, but afterwards removed to Oxford. Malden is mentioned in Domesday Survey as Maeldane. The land is chiefly arable, with some woodland and common. The appropriate tithes have been commuted for a rent- charge of £240, and the vicarial for £75.

The living is a vicarage* with the curacy of Chessington annexed, in the diocese of Winchester, value £417, in the patronage of Merton-College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. John, has a square tower containing two bells. The interior of the church contains an old hour-glass stand near the pulpit. The church was restored and repewed in 1848. The register dates from 1676 There is a National school. At Chessington is a powerful chalybeate spring called Jessop's Wen."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
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