Crowhurst, Surrey

Description
Crowhurst, a parish in Surrey, on Broad-Mead Water, 2 1/2 miles ESE of Godstone station on the S.E.R., and 9^ E by S of Reigate. Post town, Lingfield; money order and telegraph office, Lingfield. Acreage, 2119 ; population, 246. The manor belonged from an early period till the 18th century to the Gaynesfords, and the manor-house, called Crowhurst Place, now a formhouse, was a stately mansion of the time of Henry VII. Another farmhouse was the seat of the Angell family, a mansion of the time of Henry VIII. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; value, £108 with residence. The church has parts from Transition Norman to Perpendicular English, and contains brasses of the Gaynesfords. A hollow yew tree in the churchyard measures 30^ feet in girth at 5 feet from the ground, and is the largest, in the county.