Tongham, Surrey

Historical Description

Tongham, an ecclesiastical parish in Seale parish, Surrey, with a station on the L. &.S.W.R., 37 miles from London, and 1½ mile SE of Aldershot. It was constituted in 1865, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Farnham. Population, 1044. Poyle Park is the chief residence. Badshot Lea is a large and growing hamlet in the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £300 with residence. There are a mission church and a Primitive Methodist chapel at Badshot Lea.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Surrey History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Surrey online.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Tongham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tongham)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Tongham are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Surrey papers online:

• Surrey Mirror
• Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser
• Surrey Advertiser

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Surrey, 1662-1668 is available on the Heraldry page.