Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WRECKLESHAM

WRECKLESHAM, a chapelry, with a village, in Farnham parish, Surrey; 1¼ mile W SW of Farnham r. station. It was constituted in 1840; and it has a post-office under Farnham. Pop., 1,271. Houses, 251. The property is much subdivided. Hops are extensively. grown. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £340.* Patron, the Bishop of W. The church is plain.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Farnham Ch/AP/CP       Surrey AncC
Place: Wrecclesham

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