Tatsfield, Surrey
Historical Description
Tatsfield, a parish in Surrey, 5 miles E of Caterham station on the S.E.R., and 3 from Oxted station on the S.E.R. and L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office under Westerham;. money order and telegraph office, Westerham. Acreage,. 1304; population, 380. There is a parish council consisting, of six members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £80 with residence. The church is old, and was thoroughly restored in 1882. There is a Baptist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Surrey | |
| Hundred | Tandridge | |
| Poor Law union | Godstone |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Parish Registers of Tatsfield, Co. Surrey is available to purchase on CD-ROM from the shop.
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 Tatsfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tatsfield, or Tattesfield)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Tatsfield 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.