WEYBRIDGE, a parish in the first division of the
htrndred of ELMBRIDGE, county of SURREY, 20 miles
(S. W. by W.) from London, containing 897 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Surrey, and diocese of Winchester, rated in the Icing's
books at £7. 0. 5., and in the patronage of the Crown.
The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a small neat
edifice, and contains several ancient and modern monuments:
Her Royal Highness the late Duchess of York
was interred here. There is a place of worship for
Baptists. The parish is bounded on the north by the
Thames, where it receives the river Wey, which was formerly
crossed by a bridge, and thus gave name to the
place. The Wey and Arun canal commences a little
to the westward of the village, and the neighbourhood
is adorned with many elegant seats; the principal of
these is Oatlands, which was the country residence of
His Royal Highness the late Duke of York, occupying
the brow of an eminence, near a fine sweep of th'e
Thames. Charles'Hopton, in 1739, bequeathed £100
for the erection of a school, which is endowed with
about £5 per annum, the produce of sundry bequests,
for teaching twelve children. Among the various relics
of antiquity found here, several curious "wedges, or celts,
were discovered, in 1725, at Oatlands, about twenty
feet below the surface of the earth j which circumstance
seems to sanction the opinion that Julius Caesar attacked
the Britons at the place now called Coway Stakes, a
short distance from his camp at Walton.