Description
Capel, a parish in Surrey, on the L.B. & S.C.R., 32 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Dorking. Acreage, 5663; population of the civil parish, 1482 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1035. Part of the surface is moorish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; value, £262 with residence. The church is good. The vicarage of Cold Harbour is a separate benefice. There are a Friends' meeting-house and a Wesleyan chapel, a village hospital, built in 1864, and an almshouse.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
