COBHAM, a parish in the second division of the hundred of ELMBRIDGE, county of SURREY, 10 miles (N. E.) from Guildford, and 20 (S. W.) from London, containing 1340 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £9. 17- H.» endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of H. P. Weston, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is partly in the early, coc 485 COC and partly in the decorated, style of English architecture, and has lately received an addition of two hundred and ten sittings, of which one hundred and ten are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £ 100 towards defraying the expense. In pursuance of the will of Henry Smith, a charity school was founded in 1642, with an endowment in land, which was augmented, in 1680, by a bequest from Henry Smith, together producing £15 per annum, for teaching and apprenticing children; in 1722) two trifling donations were left to this charity, by Gainsford Thomas and Mary Hope, increasing the annual income to £17- 5. The river Mole flows through this parish: it abounds with pike, trout, perch, &c., and its banks are adorned with many elegant villas. Fairs for horses and sheep are held on March 17th and December llth. In the vicinity are some copper and iron works. A little westward is a barrow, near which a considerable number of Roman coins of the Lower Empire was ploughed up, in 1772.