Woodmansterne

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.3241
longitude= -0.1758
official_name= Woodmansterne
map_type= Surrey
population = 3,279 [ [http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sccwspublications.nsf/591f7dda55aad72a80256c670041a50d/1c602ea59c869c9180256e600054b26c/$FILE/Town%20populations.pdf Surrey Council census data] ]
shire_district= Reigate and Banstead
shire_county = Surrey
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Reigate
post_town= Banstead
postcode_district = SM7
postcode_area= SM
dial_code=
os_grid_reference= TQ272599 Woodmansterne is a village in Reigate and Banstead borough of the county of Surrey, England. Woodmansterne village is located on the on the B278, which starts at Morden and winds through Carshalton past Oaks Park and into the village. The road continues down to Chipstead Bottom. The railway station on the London to Tattenham Corner Line called "Woodmansterne" is actually located on Chipstead Valley Road Coulsdon just inside the border of the London Borough of Croydon.

The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Wallington hundred.

Woodmansterne appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as "Odemerestor". It was held by Richard de Tonebrige. Its domesday assets were: 15 hides; 1 church, 1 mill worth 20s, 5 ploughs, convert|4|acre|m2 of meadow, wood worth 10 hogs. It rendered £8. [ [http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm Surrey Domesday Book] ]

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