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LINGFIELD, a village and a parish in the district of East Grinstead and county of Surrey. The village stands on a headstream of the river Medway, 4 miles N of East Grinstead, and 4 SE by S of Godstone r. station; contains some ancient timber houses; and has a post office under East Grinstead.—The parish contains also Arding-Run, Plaistow-Street, Ridlands-Green, DormansLand, Dryhill, Beacon-Heath, Apsley-Town, BaldwinsHill, Chartham-Park, and Fieldcourt. Acres, 9,010. Real property, £10,138. Pop. in 1851,2,141; in 1861, 2,202. Houses, 420. The property is much subdivided. Wilderwick, Farrindons, Claridges, Porters-Hall, Fieldcourt-Lodge, and Haxted House are principal residences. Starborough Castle, 2½ miles E of the village, was built in the time of Edward III.; was a seat of the Cobhams; was garrisoned by the parliamentarian forces, in the civil wars of Charles I.; was subsequently demolished; and is represented now by only the moat, and some traces of the foundations. A modern house, bearing the castle's name, is the seat of Miss Tonge. A chalybeate spring is on Lingfield Common. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £145. Patrons, the Trustees of the late M. Atkins, Esq. The church is chiefly later English; includes earlier portions; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire; and contains eleven stalls, an ancient oak lecturn, a later English altar-tomb, and a number of brasses and other monuments of the Cobhams, the Howards, and others. A college, for a provost, chaplains, and clerks of the Carthusian order, wa" funded, at the W end of the churchyard, in 1431, by Reginald Lord Cobham; had endowments which, at the dissolution, were valued at upwards of £79; continued to be in a perfect state, in the time of Aubrey; but was taken down, to give place to a farm-house in the time of George I. There are two Baptist chapels, national and infant schools, a lending library, a workhouse, and charities £90.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Lingfield CP/AP Surrey AncC |
| Place: | Lingfield |
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