CHARLWOOD, a parish in the first division of the
hundred of REIGATE, county of SURREY, 7 miles
(S. S. W.) from Reigate, containing 1134 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of
the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books
at £ 19.16. 8., and in the patronage of the Rev. H. Wise.
The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, contains several
ancient monuments of the family of Sanders and others.
A charity school was founded, in 1637, by the Rev. John
Bristow, and endowed with a house let for £8 per annum,
for teaching four children. Within this parish
is Kilman bridge, so termed from a sanguinary battle
fought near it, between the Danes and the inhabitants
of Surrey and Sussex, in which the former were totally
defeated.