EFFINGHAM, a parish in the hundred of EFFINGHAM,
county of SURREY, 3 miles (S. W. by W.) from
Leatherhead, containing 499 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Surrey,
and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at
£7. 18. 9., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown.
The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, contains several
old stalls and monuments. There are evident proofs of
the village having been formerly much larger than it is
at present; cavities similar to cellars have been frequently
discovered in the adjacent fields and woods.