An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Windlesham

 

WINDLESHAM

"WINDLESHAM, a parish in the first division of Woking hundred, county Surrey, 7 miles S.W. of Chertsey, and 1½ mile N.E. of Bagshot. It is situated under Chobham Ridge, and contains the hamlet of Bagshot. At Hatton Hill are the nursery-grounds of Messrs. Mason and Son, and on Bagshot Heath is a large rectangular camp. The principal seats are Bagshot Park and Hall Grove. The soil is a mixture of peat and Bagshot sand.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester, value £500, with 60 acres of glebe, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, has an inscription recording the destruction of the former edifice by lightning in 1680. There is a chapel-of-ease at Bagshot, and six almshouses and National schools. The parochial charities produce about £35 per annum. Lord Onslow is lord of the manor."

"BAGSHOT, a chapelry in the parish of Windlesham, first division of Woking hundred, in the county of Surrey, 9 miles to the S.W. of Staines. It is situated on the border of Hampshire, near the South Western railway. It was once the site of a royal residence, and was named Holy Hall.

The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the rectory of Windlesham. Bagshot Heath is an extensive and elevated tract, highly prized as affording excellent sheep pasture. It is about 460 feet above the level of the sea, and extends over an area of above 31,000 acres. Bagshot Park, late the seat of H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester, and Bagshot Hall are the principal residences. Bagshot Heath was, in the last century, notorious as the haunt of highway robbers. The sands which are found there give their name to a miocene formation, extending from the Isle of Wight to Essex."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
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