Limpsfield, Surrey
Historical Description
Limpsfield, a village and a parish in Surrey. The village is 1 mile from Oxted station on the Croydon and Oxted Joint railway, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 4673; population, 1469. The manor belongs to the Leveson Gower family. A liouse near the centre of the village was long occupied by Mrs Stanhope, the editor of th& well-lAiown letters of Lord Chesterfield to her husband, Philip Stanhope, his natural son. A picturesque common clumped with firs lies above the village, and other parts of the parish are diversified and beautiful. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £300 with residence. The church is mainly Early English, lately restored, has a tower possibly Norman, witli a piscina in the S wall of the chancel, and another in a small side chapel. It comprises nave, N and S aisles, and two chancds, and contains a fine marble monument to Lord Elphinstone. There are a convalescent home, a home for the children of the missionaries of the-Church Missionary Society, and one for boys in connection with the OxfordHouse missions in the East of London, and also the Caxton Convalescent Home, for members of the printing-and allied trades (1894-95), the gift of Mr Passmore Edwards.
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 | Limpsfield St. Peter | |
| Hundred | Tandridge | |
| Poor Law union | Godstone |
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 Limpsfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Limpsfield (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Limpsfield 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.