The parish registers of Caterham, Surrey. Parish Registers The Parish Registers of Caterham, Surrey 1543 to 1812 Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales. The Warehousemen and Clerks’ Orphan asylum, reported to be in Caterham, but really in Beddington, was built in 1865 at a cost of about £20,000 is in the Venetian Gothic style and has accommodation for 150 boys and girls. curacy of Caterham Valley is a separate charge, and was constituted in 1866. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. The Roman vicinal way, called Stane-street, went through the parish and ancient works, indicative of warlike operations, are in it, near a place called War coppice. An omnibus runs from Caterham station to Westerham. The branch railway deflects from the Brighton line, at Caterham Junction station, 2½ miles S of Croydon is 4½ miles long was opened in 1856 and has stations at Kenley and Warlingham. station with telegraph, and a post office under Red-Hill. The village stands at the terminus of a branch of the South-eastern railway, 7 miles S by E of Croydon and has a r. Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870ĬATERHAM, a village and a parish in Godstone district, Surrey. The Metropolitan District Asylum for insane persons and imbeciles, erected in 1870, is situated in the upper part of this parish.Īdjoining the asylum are barracks for the recruits of the brigade of Foot Guards. The Warehousemen and Clerk's Orphan Asylum, usually believed to be in Caterham, but really in Beddington, was built in 1865 at a cost of about £20,000, is in the Venetian Gothic style, and has accommodation for 150 boys and girls.Ī fine Roman Catholic church was opened in 1881. The perpetual curacy of Caterham Valley is a separate charge, and was constituted in 1866. The patronage and advowson of the church was banded over by King John to the abbots of Waltham, and the first rector of whose institution, there is creditable records, was Hugh de Aungeer, who was instituted in 1312. This church probably dates from the beginning of the 14th century. The old parish church of St Lawrence, on the opposite side of the road, is now used as a Sunday school. The church is mainly Early English, and was erected in 1866. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester value, £216. The Roman vicinal way, called Stane Street, went through the parish, and ancient works, indicative of warlike operations, are in it near a place called Warcoppice. Acreage, 2438 population of the civil parish, 7298 of the ecclesiastical, 5015. The village stands on the S.E.R., 7 miles S by E of Croydon, and 16 from London. CATERHAM BARRACKS C1920 Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895Ĭaterham, a village and a parish in Surrey.
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