Abinger, a village and a parish in Surrey. The village is 2 1/4 miles SE of Gomshall and Sheire station on the S.E.R., and 4 1/2 SW of Dorking, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Holmbury St Mary. Acreage, 7577; population of the civil parish, 1394 ; of the ecclesiastical, 555. It was for many years the residence of Hoole, the translator of Ariosto; and it gives the title of Baron to the family of Scarlett. The parish is overhung on the SE by Leith hill, and drained westward by a tributary of the Wey. Abinger Hall is in the neighbourhood, and was long the residence of the Countess of Donegal, Swift's " Glory of the Granard race." The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £406. The church is an ancient edifice, partly in the earliest Norman, partly in Early English; was restored in 1880, and contains some beautiful stained glass windows and a good organ. In 1877 the remains of a Roman villa were discovered close to Abinger Hall, and some coins of Constantine and a quantity of broken tiles were found.