Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WESTCOTT

WESTCOTT, a chapelry in Dorking parish, Surrey; 1¾ mile W by S of Dorking r. station. It was constituted in 1852; and it has a post-office under Dorking. Pop., 1,060. Houses, 219. The manor belongs to W. J. Evelyn, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £155.* Patron, A. K. Barclay, Esq. The church was built in 1852. There are a Calvinistic chapel and a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Dorking AP/CP       Surrey AncC
Place: Westcott

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