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Limpsfield

Limpsfield is a village and parish in the east of the county of Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a counties of England in the South East England of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire....
, England

England

Oxted

Oxted is a commuter town in Surrey, England situated at the foot of the North Downs north-east of East Grinstead and south of Croydon....
at the foot of the North Downs

North Downs

The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch for 120 miles from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent....
. It lies between the A25

A25 road

The A25 road is one of the two cross-country two-digit numbered roads in the southeast of England, the other being the A27 road along the south coast....
to the south and the M25 motorway

M25 motorway

To see information about the M25 motorway under construction in Ireland, see N25 road.The M25 motorway, also known as the M25 corridor, is a 117 mile beltway which encircles Greater London, United Kingdom....
to the north, near the Clackett Lane service station

Clacket Lane services

Clacket Lane services is a motorway service station on the M25 motorway near London, United Kingdom that is owned by RoadChef. The services are actually two separate sites situated on opposite sides of the motorway between junctions 5 and 6 in Kent on the border with Surrey....
. It is near three important national rights of way: Vanguard Way

Vanguard Way

The Vanguard Way is a Long-distance trail of around 66 miles from East Croydon in outer London to Newhaven, East Sussex on the south coast of England....
, Pilgrims' Way

Pilgrims' Way

The Pilgrims' Way is the historic route supposed to have been taken by pilgrims from Winchester, Hampshire in Hampshire, England, to the shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury in Kent....
and Greensand Way

Greensand Way

Greensand Way is long distance walk following the Greensand Ridge across two counties, passing through the Surrey Hills and Chart Hills, Kent. The route is mostly rural, passing through Woodland, and alongside fruit orchards and Hop farms in Kent and links with the Stour Valley Walk near Pluckley in Kent....
.

village lay within the Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading tribes in the south and east of Great Britain starting from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, lasting until the Norman conquest of England of 1066....
administrative division of Tandridge

Tandridge (hundred)

Tandridge was a hundred in what is now Surrey, England. It includes the borough of Tandridge.It includes the parishes of Bletchingley, Caterham, Chelsham, Crowhurst, Surrey, Farleigh, Surrey, Godstone, Horne, Surrey, Limpsfield, Lingfield, Surrey, Oxted, Tandridge, Surrey, Tatsfield, Titsey, Warlingham and Woldingham....
hundred

Hundred (division)

A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in England, Wales, Denmark, South Australia, some parts of the USA, Germany , Sweden, Finland and Norway, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions....
.

Limpsfield appears in Domesday Book

Domesday Book

The Domesday Book is the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William I of England, or William the Conqueror....
of 1086 as Limenesfeld.

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Limpsfield is a village and parish in the east of the county of Surrey

Surrey

England

Oxted

Oxted is a commuter town in Surrey, England situated at the foot of the North Downs north-east of East Grinstead and south of Croydon....
at the foot of the North Downs

North Downs

The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch for 120 miles from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent....
. It lies between the A25

A25 road

The A25 road is one of the two cross-country two-digit numbered roads in the southeast of England, the other being the A27 road along the south coast....
to the south and the M25 motorway

M25 motorway

Clacket Lane services

Vanguard Way

The Vanguard Way is a Long-distance trail of around 66 miles from East Croydon in outer London to Newhaven, East Sussex on the south coast of England....
, Pilgrims' Way

Pilgrims' Way

Greensand Way

History

The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxons

Tandridge (hundred)

Hundred (division)

Domesday Book

The Domesday Book is the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William I of England, or William the Conqueror....
of 1086 as Limenesfeld. It was held by the Abbot of Battle

Battle

Generally, a battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, wherein each group will seek to defeat the others within the scope of a military campaign, and are well defined in duration, area and force commitment....
Abbey, Sussex

Sussex

Sussex , from the Old English Su?seaxe , is a Historic counties of England in South East England England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex....
. Its domesday assets were: 1 church, 1 mill

Mill (grinding)

A grinding mill is a unit operation designed to break a solid material into smaller pieces. There are many different types of grinding mills and many types of materials processed in them....
worth 2s, 19 plough

Plough

The plough is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture....
s, 1 fishery

Fishery

Generally, a fishery is a unit, engaged in raising and/or harvesting fish, which is determined by an authority or other entity to be a fishery....
, of meadow

Meadow

A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by grass and other non-woody plants . It may be cut for hay or grazing by livestock such as cattle, sheep or goats....
, woodland

Woodland

Ecologically, a woodland is an area covered in trees, usually at low density, forming an open habitat, allowing sunlight to penetrate between the trees, and limiting shade....
worth 150 hogs, 2 stone quarries

Quarry

A quarry is a type of open-pit mining from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone....
, 3 nests of hawk

Hawk

The term hawk can be used in several ways:* In strict usage in Europe and Asia, to mean any of the species in the subfamily Accipitrinae, which comprises the genus Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis and Megatriorchis....
s. It rendered £24.

The parish church of St. Peter was constructed in the late 12th century. There are over twenty medieval buildings within the parish.

The composer Frederick Delius

Frederick Delius

Frederick Albert Theodore Delius Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer....
is buried in the churchyard of the Norman

Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries....
parish church of St. Peter's, as is his wife Jelka. The English

England

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orchestra conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, is also buried there, only a few metres from Delius, whose music he supported and promoted. Another nearby grave is occupied by the cellist Beatrice Harrison

Beatrice Harrison

File:Beatrice Harrison.jpgBeatrice Harrison was a United Kingdom cellist active in the first half of the twentieth century. She gave first performances of several important English works, especially those of Frederick Delius, and made the first or standard recordings of others....
, who lived locally in Oxted, and who worked closely with both Delius and Beecham.

Today

The village is in a conservation area and some of the surrounding area is National Trust

National Trust

National Trust may refer to:*An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland*Barbados National Trust*Bermuda National Trust*Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques - France...
land including Limpsfield Common. Staffhurst Wood is also within the parish boundaries and is notable for its bluebells in spring. Limpsfield Chart

Limpsfield Chart

Limpsfield Chart is a village near to Oxted in Surrey, just south of the A25 road .File:Limpsfield Chart.jpgFile:The Carpenters Arms, Limpsfield Chart.jpg...
, a hamlet to the south east of the village has a golf course and cricket club. Limpsfield itself has a cricket club, a soccer team and a tennis club.

The village is served by Oxted railway station

Oxted railway station

Oxted railway station serves Oxted in Surrey, in England. Train services from the station are provided by Southern ....
.

Notable Residents

Over time, the parish has been home to a number of notable residents:

The book illustrator Arthur Rackham
Arthur Rackham

File:Giants and Freia.jpgArthur Rackham was an English book illustrator....
lived and died in Pains Hill (a small hamlet to the south of Limpsfield village).
The big brother host, Davina McCall
Davina McCall

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an Great Britain actress and television presenter, most notable for her work on Channel 4's Big Brother UK reality TV series....
, spent much of her childhood in Limpsfield.

External links

from Victoria County History
Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project begun in 1899 in honour of Victoria of the United Kingdom with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England....