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Alfold, Aldfold, or Awfold, a parish in the counties of Surrey and Sussex, on the Wey and Arundel Canal, 4 miles from Baynards station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 8 SSE of Godalming. It has a post and money order office under Horsham; telegraph office, Baynards railway station. Acreage, 3001; population, 558. Several French refugees from the massacre on St Bartholomew's Day settled here, and erected a glass manufactory. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; value, £243. The church is Norman. There is a Baptist chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5

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