NEWDIGATE, a parish comprising the hamlet
of Newdigate, in the first division of the hundred of
REIGATE, but chiefly in the second division of the hundred
of COPTHORNE, county of SURREY, 5 miles (S.S.E.)
from Dorking, containing 579 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese
of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £8. 18. 4.,
and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated
to St. Peter, is principally in the early style of
English architecture. George Steer, in 1661, gave a
school-house, and endowed it with a rent-charge of
£6.13. 4. a year, to which George Booth, in 1681, added
£100; the present annual income amounts to upwards
of £20, and is applied to the education of about
eighteen poor children.