MOULSEY (EAST), a parish in the first division of
the hundred of ELMBRIDGE, county of SURREY, 3 miles
(B.N.E.) from Walton upon Thames, containing 526
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese of Winchester,
and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of
King's College, Cambridge. The parish is bounded on
the north by the Thames, and on the west by the river
Mole. John Winkins, in 1779, founded a school, and
endowed it with £400, for teaching twelve poor children.
Here are three almshouses, the origin of which
is unknown.