In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ottershaw like this:
OTTERSHAW, a village and a chapelry in Chertsey parish, Surrey. The village stands 2½ miles S W by W of Chertsey r. station, and has a post-office under Chertsey. The chapelry was constituted in 1864. Pop., 594. Ottershaw Park is the seat of R. Crawshay, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. ...
Value, £149.* Patron, Sir E. Colebrooke, Bart. The church was built in 1864, at a cost of £4,000, defrayed by Sir E. Colebrooke, Bart.; is in the early English style, of brick with stone facings; and consists of a four-bay nave and an apsidal chancel, with a spire 60 feethigh.
Ottershaw through time
Ottershaw is now part of Runnymede district. Click here for graphs and data of how Runnymede has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ottershaw itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ottershaw, in Runnymede and Surrey | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21580
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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