TANDRIDGE, a parish in the first division of the
hundred of TANDRIDGE, county of SURREY, 1 mile
(E. by S.) from Godstone, containing 421 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Surrey, and diocese of Winchester, endowed with £ 600
royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of Sir W. Clayton, Bart. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter. A National school, established here
for the children of Tandridge, Godstone, and Oxted, is
partly supported by a small bequest of David Maynard,
in 1709. A priory of Augustine canons, in honour of St.
James, to which Odo de Dammartin was a great benefactor,
was founded in the time of Richard I., and at
the dissolution had possessions valued at £86. 7. 6.
per annum.