WOODMANSTERNE, a parish in the first division
of the hundred of WALLINGTON, county of SURREY,
4 miles (S.'EbyE.) from Ewell, containing 171 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Surtey, and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's
books at £11. 7. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown.
The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a small neat
edifice. In the grounds of The Oaks, formerly an inn,
but converted into a hunting seat by the late General
Burgoyne, and now the property of the Earl of Derby,
is an old beech tree, remarkable for its boughs having
grown fast to one another. Shortes House, in this
parish, is a very ancient building with curiously carved
wainscoting.