ELSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of FARNHAM,
county of SURREY, 4 miles (W.) from Godalming, containing
608 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese of Winchester,
endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £1400
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Robert
Colmer, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. James.
The navigable river Wey runs through the parish.