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An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Little Bookham

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

 

LITTLE BOOKHAM

"LITTLE BOOKHAM, a parish in the hundred of Effingham, in the county of Surrey, close to Great Beckham. Leatherhead is its post town.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Winchester, of the value of £156, in the patronage of the Pollens. The church contains a monumental brass of the year 1590. The charitable endowments, consisting of a bequest by Sir B. Maddox for the benefit of the parish clergyman and the poor, and other purposes, amount to £65 a year. There are almshouses for three persons.

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