An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Tandridge

 

TANDRIDGE

"TANDRIDGE, a parish in the first division of Tandridge hundred, county Surrey, 2 miles S.E. of Godstone, its post town, and the same distance E. of Godstone railway station. The village is situated under the hills, near the South-Eastern railway. It is traversed by the road from Guildford through Godstone to Maidstone, and by the Roman Stane Street.

In the reign of Richard I. an Austin priory was founded here by Odo-de-Damartin, the revenue of which at the Dissolution was returned at £86 7s. 6d., and the site given to the Redes, with Rook's Nest. The land is partly in hop-grounds.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Winchester, value £70. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is old; it has been restored and enlarged. There are National schools for this parish and that of Oxted, also an infant school. The Earl of Cottenham has a seat in this parish. Sir William Clayton, Bart., is lord of the manor. In 1.828 several silver and copper coins of Julius Ceasar and other Roman emperors were found."

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