An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Nutfield

 

NUTFIELD

"NUTFIELD, a parish in the second division of the hundred of Reigate, county Surrey, 2 miles E. of Reigate, its post town, and 1 mile W. of Bletchingley. At the former place is the junction station of the South-Eastern railway.

The village, which is chiefly agricultural, is situated on the road from Godstone to Reigate. It is celebrated for its production of fuller's earth, amounting to 6,000 tons annually, but this mineral is now nearly worked out. There are also hearthstone quarries of great magnitude. The soil consists of a sandy loam and deep clay. About two-thirds of the land are arable, and the remainder meadow, pasture, and woodland.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Winchester, value £500, in the patronage of Jesus College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to SS. Paul and Peter, is a small structure with an embattled tower. The interior of the church has an old monument of Thomas de Roldham. There is a National school. In 1755, about 900 Roman brass coins of the Lower Empire were found in the neighbourhood within an earthen vessel."

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