Fetcham, Surrey
Historical Description
Fetcham, a parish in Surrey, adjacent to the river Mole, and 1½ mile W by S of Leatherhead stations on the L.B. & S.C.R. and the S.W.R. It has a post office under Leather-head; money order and telegraph office, Leatherhead. Acreage, 1839; population of the civil parish, 526; of the ecclesiastical, 519. Fetcham Park is the seat of the Hankey family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, o£302 with residence. The church contains much Roman tile in its walls, has Norman and Transition Norman portions, and is in good condition. There are three alms-houses and a reading-room.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Surrey | |
| Hundred | Copthorne and Effingham | |
| Poor Law union | Epsom |
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 Fetcham from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Fetcham 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.