Kingswood, Surrey
Historical Description
Kingswood, a township in Ewell parish and a chapelry partly also in Banstead parish, Surrey. The township is a detached part of Ewell, 3 miles from Banstead station on the L.B. & S.C.R, and 3½ N by W of Reigate. It has a post office under Epsom; money order and telegraph office, Wal-ton-on-the-HilL Acreage, 1821; population of the township, 608; of the ecclesiastical district, 1255. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; gross value, £200. The church is recent, in lieu of an old one, was built by the late Mr Alcock at a cost of £10, 000, and is in the Decorated English style and cruciform, with central embattled tower and spire. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Kingswood Warren is a chief residence.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Surrey | |
| Civil parish | Ewell | |
| Hundred | Reigate | |
| Poor Law union | Reigate |
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 Kingswood from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kingswood)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Kingswood 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.