An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Leatherhead

 

LEATHERHEAD

"LEATHERHEAD, (or Letherhed), a parish and post town in the second division of the hundred of Copthorne, county Surrey, 4 miles S.W. of Epsom, 5 N. of Dorking, and 12½ N.E. of Guildford. It is a station on the London and South-Western railway. It is situated on the river Mole, which is here crossed by a bridge of fourteen arches. " (There is more of this description).

"NORBURY PARK, a seat in the parish of Leatherhead, second division of Copthorne hundred, county Surrey, 1 mile S. of Leatherhead, and 12 miles E. by N. of Guildford. It formerly belonged to the Locke family, who rebuilt the house on the top of Boxhill, near the fourteen-arched bridge on the river Mole. The panels of the wainscoting are painted with views from the Cumberland lakes by Barrett, and the park abounds in walnut trees."

"PATTERSHAM, (or Patchenham), a hamlet in the parish of Leatherhead, second division of the hundred of Copthorpe, county Surrey, 1 mile N. W. of Leatherhead.

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