NEWDIGATE, a village and a parish in Dorking district, Surrey. The village stands near a head-stream of the river Mole, 2½ miles N of the boundary with Sussex, and 5¾ S S E of Dorking r. station; and has a post-office under Dorking. The parish contains also the hamlet of Park-gate. Acres, 4, 458. Real property, £2, 612. Pop., 608. Houses, 106. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged to the Albinis; and passed, through the Fitz-alans and others, to the Newdegates. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £353.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is chiefly early English, in good condition; and has a tower and spire. There are an endowed school with £54 a year, and a national school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))