CHOBHAM, a parish in the first division of the
hundred of GODLEY, county of SURREY, 4 miles
(E. S. E.) from Bagshot, containing 1719 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Surrey,
and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at
£10. 2. 1., and in the patronage of Samuel Thornton,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. There
is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Bagslhot
heath forms a large portion of this parish, but little
more than a third of it is in cultivation, the soil being
for the most part sandy, with beds of gravel underneath.
At Ghobham park are the remains of a large mansion,
in which Archbishop Heath died. There is a school for
about one hundred and fifty children, supported by
subscription.