Place:Weybridge, Surrey, England

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NameWeybridge
Alt namesBrooklandssource: settlement in parish
Oatlands Villagesource: settlement in parish
Oatlandssource: settlement in parish
St George's Hill (Weybridge)source: settlement in parish
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates51.367°N 0.467°W
Located inSurrey, England
See alsoElmbridge Hundred, Surrey, Englandancient county division in which it was located
Elmbridge District, Surrey, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Weybridge is a town by the River Wey in the Elmbridge District of Surrey, England. It is bounded to the north by the River Thames at the mouth of the Wey, from which it gets its name. It is just outside the borders of Greater London.

Brooklands, St George's Hill and Oatlands or Oatlands Village are places within the civil parish of Weybridge.

History

Until the late 18th century Weybridge was as a very small village with a river crossing. Seed milling to make flour and plant nurseries existed and would continue to provide the major source of home-grown income until the 20th century. However, tanneries, major coaching houses, shops, markets, forges or gunpowder works were documented in the medieval period.

Weybridge grew into a commuter town with the advent of the fast train link into London Waterloo.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Weybridge.

Surrey Research Tips

Government

Administrative boundaries of the county of Surrey (Surrey History Centre. The centre has a website with a number of useful indexes--titheholders in various parishes, deaths at the county gaol, etc.)

Registration Districts

  • Registration Districts in Surrey from their introduction in 1837 to the present. By drilling down through the links you can follow any parish through the registration districts to which it was attached.

GENUKI provisions

The website GENUKI provides a very comprehensive list of reference sources for the County of Surrey. It includes:

  • Archives and Libraries
  • Church record availability for both Surrey and the former Surrey part of Greater London
  • 19th century descriptions of the ecclesiastical parishes
  • Lists of cemeteries
  • Local family history societies
  • A list of historic maps online

History

  • The Victoria History of the County of Surrey is a series of three volumes available online through British History Online. The volumes were written over the past hundred or so years by a number of authors and cover various sections of Surrey. A list of the volumes and what each contains can be found under the source Victoria History of the County of Surrey. Both volumes 3 and 4 contain areas which are part of Greater London and parts of modern Surrey.

Maps

  • The National Library of Scotland has a website which provides maps taken from the Ordnance Survey England & Wales One-Inch to the Mile series of 1892-1908 as well as equivalent maps for Scotland itself. The immediate presentation is a "help" screen and a place selection screen prompting the entry of a location down to town, village or parish level. These screens can be removed by a click of the "X". The map is very clear and shows parish and county boundaries and many large buildings and estates that existed at the turn of the 20th century. Magnification can be adjusted and an "overlay feature" allows inspection of the area today along with that of 1900. The specific map from the series can be viewed as a whole ("View this map") and this allows the inspection of the map legend (found in the left hand bottom corner. Becoming familiar with the various facilities of these maps is well worth the trouble.
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