Description
Horne, a village and a parish in Surrey. The village stands 3 miles SW by S of Godstone, and 4 from Horley station on the L.B. & S.C.R. The parish includes the detached place of Harrowsley Borough, 2 1/2 miles SW of the village. Post town, East Grinstead or Horley; money order and telegraph office, Outwood. Acreage, 4594; population of the civil parish, 708; of the ecclesiastical, 568. Thunderfield Castle, an extensive moated ground near Harrowsley, is said to have been the site of a palace of King Athelstane. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; gross value, £4.4: 5. The church is ancient but good, was restored in 1880, and has a spire.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
