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Weybridge in Surrey County England History and GeographyWEYBRIDGE, a parish in the first division of the hundred of ELMBRIDGE, county of SURREY, 20 miles (S.W. by W.) from London, containing 897 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £7. 0. 5., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a small neat edifice, and contains several ancient and modern monuments: Her Royal Highness the late Duchess of York was interred here. There is a place of worship for Baptists. The parish is bounded on the north by the Thames, where it receives the river Wey, which was formerly crossed by a bridge, and thus gave name to the place. The Wey and Arun canal commences a little to the westward of the village, and the neighbourhood is adorned with many elegant seats; the principal of these is Oatlands, which was the country residence of His Royal Highness the late Duke of York, occupying the brow of an eminence, near a fine sweep of the Thames. Charles Hopton, in 1739, bequeathed £100 for the erection of a school, which is endowed with about £5 per annum, the produce of sundry bequests, for teaching twelve children. Among the various relics of antiquity found here, several curious wedges, or celts, were discovered, in 1725, at Oatlands, about twenty feet below the surface of the earth; which circumstance seems to sanction the opinion that Julius Caesar attacked the Britons at the place now called Coway Stakes, a short distance from his camp at Walton. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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