Hambledon, Surrey
Historical Description
Hambledon, a village and a parish in Surrey. The village stands 1½ mile NE of Witley station on the L. & S.W.R., and 3½ miles S of Godalming, and has a post office under Godal-ming; money order office, Godalming; telegraph office, Witley railway station. The parish comprises 1540 acres; population of the civil parish, 535; of the ecclesiastical, 409. The parish is traversed by the range of sandstone hills which form one of the leading features in the romantic scenery of SW Surrey. Eoek Hill, Mervel Hill, and Burgate haughs are the most picturesque parts. The Bargate stone is an excellent and durable building material. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Radnor. The church, St Peter's, is Early English, rebuilt in 1846. The workhouse is at the verge of the parish.
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 | Hambledon St. Peter | |
Hundred | Godalming | |
Poor Law union | Hambledon |
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 Hambledon from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hambledon (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hambledon 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.