East Horsley Parish

"EAST HORSLEY, a parish in the second division of the hundred of Woking, county Surrey, 5 miles S.W. of Leatherhead, 6 N.E. of Guildford, and 2½ S.E. of Ripley, its post town. The northern part of the parish is flat and clayey, but the S. hilly, with a chalk subsoil. The higher lands abound in beech timber, and there is a considerable extent of wood and waste land. The arable and pasture are in nearly equal proportions. The main road from Leatherhead to Guildford crosses the interior, of the parish. The village is small, and wholly agricultural.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Winchester, value £257, in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, dedicated to St. Martin, is a structure of the 12th century, in the Norman style of architecture, with embattled tower. It contains a brass with effigy of John Bowthe, Bishop of Exeter. There is a free school. Horsley Place is the seat of the Earl of Lovelace, who is lord of the manor and owner of the whole of the soil.