Windlesham, Surrey

Description
Windlesham, a village and a parish in Surrey. The village has a station called Sunningdale and Windlesham on the L. & S.W.R. It is 27 miles from London, 8 WSW of Chertsey, and 8 NE of North Camp, Aldershot, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bagshot. The parish includes Bagshot village, and was constituted a separate ecclesiastical district in 1874. The greater portion was un-enclosed land before the passing of the Enclosures Act of 1814. Acreage, 5692; population of the civil parish, 2965; of the ecclesiastical, 1347. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was rebuilt in 1680, and enlarged in 1874; it is an edifice of red brick in the Early English and Decorated styles. There is a church at Bagshot, consecrated in 1884, and a Wesleyan chapel. There are six almshouses, an institute, and reading-rooms.