West Horsley, Surrey
Historical Description
Horsley, West, a village and a parish in Surrey. The" village stands about a mile from Horsley and Ockham station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leatherhead. Acreage of the civil parish,. 2676; population, 601; of the ecclesiastical, 615. The manor, with West Horsley Place, belonged to Lord Berners,. The translator ofFroissart; passed to the Raleighs, and was the favourite residence of Carew Raleigh, son of Sir Walter. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £308 with residence. The church is partly Early English, partly Perpendicular; was well restored in 1849, and reseated in 1887; comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and shingled spire; has at the E end of the nave a curious carving of the Nativity, found under the flooring in 1810, and contains monuments of a Berners and a Fullerton. A mortuary chapel belonging to the manor is traditionally said to contain the head of Sir Walter Raleigh in the same grave as the remains of his son. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | West Horsley St. Mary | |
Hundred | Woking | |
Poor Law union | Guildford |
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 West Horsley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Horsley, West (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of West Horsley 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.