OAKWOOD, a chapelry in the parish of WOTTON,
and first division of the hundred of WOTTON,
county of SURREY,
9 miles (S. S. W.) from Dorking. The population is
returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese of
Winchester, endowed with £400 private benefaction
and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir
J. Evelyn, Bart. The chapel is dedicated to St. John
the Baptist.