Haslemere, Surrey

Description
Haslemere, a small market-town and a parish in Surrey. The town stands amid pleasant environs of hill and vale, 9 miles SSW of Godalming, and has a station on the L. & S.W. R., 43 miles from London, and a post, money order, and telegraph office. It is said to have succeeded an older and larger town, situated on the side of an adjacent hill, and destroyed by the Danes; was a borough by prescription, and chartered by Queen Elizabeth; sent two members to Parliament till disfranchised by the Act of 1832; and was the scene of many expensive and violent election contests till its interests became united in the Earl of Lons-dale. It has now a handsome church, Congregational and Baptist chapels, a literary and scientific institution, assembly room, and workmen's club, and is a good centre for tourists to explore the romantic region in the triangle between it, Mid-hnrst, and Petersfield. The remarkable depression in th£ sand, called the Devil's Punchbowl, and emitting an affluent of the Wey, is 2 1/2 miles to the NNW. Acreage of the civil parish, 1899; population, 1274; of the ecclesiastical, 1261. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. Aid-worth, the residence of the late Lord Tennyson, and where he died, is in the parish of Lurgashall, Sussex, 2 1/2 miles from Haslemere. Professor Tyndal died at Shottermill (adjoining Haslemere) in 1893, and is buried in Haslemere churchyard.