An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Newdigate

 

NEWDIGATE

"NEWDIGATE, a parish in the second division of Copthorne hundred, county Surrey, 5,q, miles S. by E. of Dorking, its post town. The parish, which is wholly agricultural, includes the hamlet of Parkgate. It formerly belonged to the Albini, Fitzalan, and other distinguished families. The village is small, but neatly built. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £580.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Winchester, value £353, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a spired tower. The parochial charities chiefly consist of the endowment to Steer's school, with a small exhibition for four years to Trinity College, Cambridge. There is a National school."

"PARKGATE, a hamlet in the parish of Newdigate, second division of the hundred of Copthorne, county Surrey, 1 mile N. of Newdigate."

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