Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TONGHAM

TONGHAM, a chapelry in Seal parish, Surrey; on the Guildford and Alton railway, 1½ mile SE of Aldershot. It was constituted in 1865; and it has a r. station with telegraph, and a post-office‡ under Farnham. Pop. in 1868, about 800. The manor belongs to Lieut.-Gen. Sir John L. Pennefather. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £100. Patron, the Archdeacon of Surrey.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Seale and Tongham CP/AP/Ch       Surrey AncC
Place: Tongham

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