Sanderstead, Surrey

Description
Sanderstead, a parish, with a village, in Surrey, with a station on the Croydon and Oxted Junction railway, 12 miles from London and 3 SSE of Croydon. Post town, Croydon. Acreage, 3150; population of the civil parish, 509; of the ecclesiastical, 253. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Telsdon has been added to the civil parish. Purley House was occupied by Home Tooke when he wrote his " Diversions of Purley." The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £245 with residence. The church, a small building in the Early English style with a spire, stands on the site of a much older one, and has some old brasses and monuments. In the churchyard there are some yew trees, one said to be upwards of 1000 years old. The rectory was built in 1680.