Limpsfield, Surrey

Description
Limpsfield, a village and a parish in Surrey. The village is 1 mile from Oxted station on the Croydon and Oxted Joint railway, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 4673 ; population, 1469. The manor belongs to the Leveson Gower family. A liouse near the centre of the village was long occupied by Mrs Stanhope, the editor of th& well-lAiown letters of Lord Chesterfield to her husband, Philip Stanhope, his natural son. A picturesque common clumped with firs lies above the village, and other parts of the parish are diversified and beautiful. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £300 with residence. The church is mainly Early English, lately restored, has a tower possibly Norman, with a piscina in the S wall of the chancel, and another in a small side chapel. It comprises nave, N and S aisles, and two chancds, and contains a fine marble monument to Lord Elphinstone. There are a convalescent home, a home for the children of the missionaries of the-Church Missionary Society, and one for boys in connection with the OxfordHouse missions in the East of London, and also the Caxton Convalescent Home, for members of the printing-and allied trades (1894-95), the gift of Mr Passmore Edwards.