Chobham, Surrey
Historical Description
Chobham, a village and a parish in Surrey. The village stands on Bourn Brook, near Bagshot Heath and the Basing-stoke Canal, 3½ miles WNW of Woking station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5½ SW of Chertsey. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Woking. Acreage of the civil parish, 9579; population, 3009; of the ecclesiastical, 2612. Chobham Place is the seat of the Le Marchant family. Chobham Park belonged to Chertsey Abbey, and was the deathplace of Archbishop Heath. The Chobham ridges were the site of a great military encampment from April to August, 1853, percurrent to the more permanent encampment of Aldershot. Field works and redoubts, formed at the time of this encampment, may look not long hence to be ancient works, the more so that some real antiquities of the class of Roman camps and roads are in the vicinity. The surface generally has a black appearance, and belongs to the Bagshot sand formation. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; value, £294. The church contains some Norman features, and was restored in 1866; a new organ was erected in 1890. A chapelry at Valley-end was formed in 1867. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Surrey | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Chobham St. Lawrence | |
| Hundred | Godley | |
| Poor Law union | Chertsey |
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.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Chobham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chobham (St. Lawrence))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Chobham 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:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Surrey, 1662-1668 is available on the Heraldry page.