Lingfield, Surrey
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 Grade I listed Church of Saints Peter and Paul |
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 Example of Tudor period architecture in Lingfield |
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| Lingfield shown within Surrey | |
| Area | 8.76 km2 (3.38 sq mi) |
| Population | 4,467 (Civil Parish 2011) |
| • Density | 510/km2 (1,300/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TQ395385 |
| • London | 23.4 miles (37.7 km) |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LINGFIELD |
| Postcode district | RH7 |
| Dialling code | 01342 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Lingfield is a village, civil parish and post town in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England. Lingfield Park is home to horse racing across a large catchment from Folkestone to Epsom. Lingfield is centred 23.4 miles (37.7 km) south of London and lies to the east of the A22 where it runs between Godstone and East Grinstead. The village has a medieval church that is Grade I listed, timber-frame architecture from the Tudor period and century before and a punishment cage, last used in 1882 to hold a poacher, made in 1773.
The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Tandridge hundred.
Lingfield was not listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, but is shown on the map as Leangafeld, its spelling in 871AD.
The southern part of the parish is in the old iron district. A forge and a furnace 'about Copthorne and Lingfield' were owned by Lady Gage in 1574, and Clarke's pond and Cook's pond may have been heads for water power to work hammers. Henry Malden wrote in 1911 that Lingfield is mostly:
...agricultural, but since the opening of the railway station on the ...line from Croydon to East Grinstead in 1884, the laying out of the Dormansland estate with the opening of a station there, and the making of the Lingfield Park racecourse, where another railway station has been opened, the village has become a small town and building has been carried out at Plaistow Street and elsewhere.
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