LINGFIELD, a parish in the first division of the
hundred of TANDRIDGE, county of SURREY, 6 miles
(S.S.E.) from Godstone, containing 1684 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Surrey, and diocese of Winchester, endowed with
£1000 parliamentary grant. Robert Ladbrooke, Esq.
was patron in 1819. The church is dedicated to St.
Peter and St. Paul. Here is a place of worship for
Baptists. A small sum is paid by the parish annually
for the instruction of children. A collegiate church was
founded here by Reginald, Lord Cobham, in the reign
of Henry VI., and dedicated to St. Peter; at the dissolution
the revenue was valued at £79. 15. 10.