Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Elstead like this:

ELSTEAD, a village and a parish in Hambledon district, Surrey. The village stands on the river Wey, 3z miles WNW of Milford r. station, and 4¼ W by S of Godalming; and has a post office under Godalming. The parish comprises 4, 119 acres. Real property, £2, 430. Pop., 818. Houses, 164. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £78. Patron, the Rev. J. H. Stephenson. The church has Bishop Fox's pelican on the chancel roof, with characters of ea...

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rly English; and is small and good. There is an Independent chapel.

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