Description
Kingswood, a township in Ewell parish and a chapelry partly also in Banstead parish, Surrey. The township is a detached part of Ewell, 3 miles from Banstead station on the L.B. & S.C.R, and 3 1/2 N by W of Reigate. It has a post office under Epsom; money order and telegraph office, Wal-ton-on-the-HilL Acreage, 1821; population of the township, 608; of the ecclesiastical district, 1255. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; gross value, £200. The church is recent, in lieu of an old one, was built by the late Mr Alcock at a cost of £10, 000, and is in the Decorated English style and cruciform, with central embattled tower and spire. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Kingswood Warren is a chief residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
