Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SUMMERSTOWN

SUMMERSTOWN, a chapelry in Garrat hamlet, Wandsworth parish, Surrey; on the river Wandle, 1½ mile NE of Wimbledon r. station. It was constituted in 1845. Post town, Garrat, under Tooting, London SW. Rated property, £5,282. Pop., 920. Houses, 186. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £195.* Patrons, Trustees. The church is in the pointed style.


(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: Wandsworth CP/AP       Surrey AncC
Place: Summerstown

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