Lingfield, Surrey

Historical Description

Lingfield, a village and a parish in Surrey. The village stands on a head-stream of the river Medway, 4 miles N of East Grinstead, and has a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 2f> miles from London, and a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage of the civil parish, 9239; population, 3204; of the ecclesiastical, 2008. Starborough Castle, 2½ miles E of the village, was built in the time of Edward III., was a seat of the Cobhams, was garrisoned by the Parliamentarian forces in the Civil Wars of Charles L, was subsequently demolished, and is represented now by only the moat and some-traces of the foundations. A modern house, bearing the castle's name, is a private residence. There is an ancient cross, which goes by the name of St Peter's Cross, standing on what was formerly the village green. A chalybeate spring is on Lingtield Common. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £150 with residence. The church is chiefly Later English, includes earlier portions, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire, and contains eleven stalls, an ancient oak lectern, a Later English altar-tomb, and a number of brasses and other monuments of the Cobhams, the Howards, and others. A college for a provost, chaplains, and clerks of the Carthusian older was founded at the W end of the churchyard in 1431 by Reginald Lord Cobham, had endowments which at the-dissolution were valued at upwards of £79, continued to be in a perfect state in the time of Aubrey, but was taken down-to give place to a farmhouse in the time of George I. There are two Baptist chapels and a mission church. St John's, Dormans Land, is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1885 out of Lingfield. The church is a stone building in the Gothic style. The living is a curacy; net value, £180. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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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 Lingfield from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lingfield (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Lingfield 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:

• Surrey Mirror
• Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser
• Surrey Advertiser

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Surrey, 1662-1668 is available on the Heraldry page.