LIMPSFIELD

'Limpsfield' is a village in the east of the county of Surrey, England near Oxted at the foot of the North Downs. It lies between the A25 to the south and the M25 motorway to the north, near the Clackett Lane service station. It is near three important national rights of way: Vanguard Way, Pilgrim's Way and Greensand Way.
The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Tandridge hundred.
Limpsfield appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Limenesfeld''. It was held by the Abbot of Battle Abbey, Sussex. Its domesday assets were: 1 church, 1 mill worth 2s, 19 ploughs, 1 fishery, 4 acres of meadow, woodland worth 150 hogs, 2 stone quarries, 3 nests of hawks. It rendered £24.^[2]
The parish church of St. Peter was constructed in the late 12th century. There are over twenty medieval buildings within the parish.
The village is served by Oxted railway station.
The composer Frederick Delius is buried in the churchyard of the Norman parish church of St. Peter's.
The ''Big Brother'' host, Davina McCall, spent most of her childhood in Limpsfield.

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1. Census data
2. Surrey Domesday Book

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★ Limpsfield history