Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HALE, or HEAL

HALE, or HEAL, a hamlet and a chapelry in Farnham parish, Surrey. The hamlet lies on the verge of the county, near Farnham Park, 1¼ mile N of Farnham town and r. station; and has a post office under Farnham. The chapelry was constituted in 1845. Pop., 2, 864. Houses, 549. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £340.* Patron, the Vicar of Farnham.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Farnham Ch/AP/CP       Surrey AncC
Place names: HALE     |     HALE OR HEAL     |     HEAL
Place: Hale

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