Oakwood or Okewood, Surrey Family History Guide

Oakwood or Okewood is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Surrey, created in 1723 from Wotton Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Oakwood

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1696
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1845

Nonconformists include:

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Adjacent Parishes

Rudgwick Sussex
Warnham Sussex
Abinger
Ockley
Coldharbour

Parish History

Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Oakwood or Okewood, an ecclesiastical parish formed out of part of the parishes of Abinger, Wotton, and Ockley, Surrey, adjacent to Sussex, 3 miles from Ockley station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 8½ SSW of Dorking. It was constituted in 1853, and its post town is Ockley, under Dorking. Population, 679. It forms the south ward of the Abinger parish council, and returns four members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; value, £270 with residence. The church stands on a low eminence surrounded by woods; is rude Early English in style, with heavy buttresses and pointed roof; was restored in 1880, and contains a good brass of Sir Edward de la Hall of 1431. There is a Congregational chapel.

Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

OAKWOOD, or Okewood, a chapelry in Abinger, Wotton, and Ockley parishes, Surrey; adjacent to Sussex, 5¼ miles N W by N of Horsham r. station, and 8½ SSW of Dorking. It was constituted in 1853; and its post town is Ockley, under Dorking. Pop. in 1861, 703. Houses, 134. Pop. of the Abinger portion, 417; of the Wotton portion, 218.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].