Felbridge
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 St John the Divine parish church |
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| Felbridge shown within Surrey | |
| Area | 8.49 km2 (3.28 sq mi) |
| Population | 2,096 (Civil Parish 2011) |
| • Density | 247/km2 (640/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TQ 369263 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | EAST GRINSTEAD |
| Postcode district | RH19 |
| Dialling code | 01342 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Felbridge is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey with a playing field and Felbridge Nurseries within its focal area, narrowly in West Sussex. Felbridge village forms a settlement with East Grinstead and had 829 homes and households at the time of the 2011 Census. Domewood is part of Felbridge civil parish, which was created in 1953.
Until shortly after 1911, the area was part of the parish of Horne. No reference appears to a separate settlement being here in the Domesday Book of 1086.
James son of Edward Evelyn succeeded to the manors of Hedgecourt (and smaller carucate of Covelingeley) in the parish of Horne and the estate of Felbridge in 1751. Julia Evelyn Medley, his granddaughter by his first wife, who had married Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool held this estate, after James's Evelyn wife's death, as late as 1841. By 1911, whereabouts it lost much of its land, amid the economic change and social reforms of the age it became the property of the Sayer family. The last resident "lord of the manor" was Charles Henry Gatty FRSE FLS who died in 1903.
Felbridge is centred 7.7 miles (12.4 km) south of Oxted, 25 miles (40 km) south of London and 24.7 miles (39.8 km) ESE of Surrey's county town, Guildford. It occupies less than one eighth of its district in the extreme mid-south. The east of the village is often referred to as Felcourt.
Hedgecourt lake is immediately northwest of the village centre in the heart of the civil parish, approximately 44 acres (18 ha) in size.
Elevations range between 115m AOB towards the south of the eastern boundary, fields adjoining Chartham Wood and similarly 102m AOB along West Park Road by the Effingham Park Hotel in the southwest, to 53m AOB along Felbridge Water between Felcourt and Newchapel, in the northeast of the parish, a tributary of the River Eden.
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