BISLEY, a parish in the first division of the hundred
of GODLEY, county of SURREY, 4 miles (S. E.)
from Bagshot, containing 273 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese
of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £7. 16. 8.,
and in the patronage of the Rev. John King, the Rev.
Charles Simeon, and the Rev. — Ball. The church, part
of which is built with timber and brick plaistered over,
is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and is said to be
six centuries old: near it there is a chalybeate spring,
called St. John the Baptist's well.