STOKE-NEXT-GUILDFORD, a parish in Guildford district, Surrey; on the river Wey, adjacent on when to Guildford town and r. station, and partly within Guildford borough. Acres, 2,314. Real property, £14,347; of which £570 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 2,507; in 1861, 3,797, -of whom 286 were in Guildford workhouse. Houses, 709. The erection of numerous houses was the reason of the increase of pop.; and the erection of many more was in progress at the taking of the census. The manor belonged to the Crown from the time of the Confessor till that of John; was then given to the see of London; reverted to the Crown in the first year of Elizabeth; passed afterwards to various persons; and belongs now to the Onslows.
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