06/10/2026
We recently launched a substantial history (166 pages) of Limpsfield Church, authored by historian, Dr Nicholas Dixon. If you wish to have a copy, please let us know at [email protected] (£10 suggested donation plus P&P).
Dr Dixon casts new light on the history of both church and village from the medieval period, through the dramatic Reformation and Cromwellian periods up to the present, including surprising discoveries...
The first rector was also Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and another a Canon of Rouen in France. One Rector was annoyed by a villager who called himself ‘Elias the Prophet’. A medieval King sent a gift of venison to the Rector. And he reveals the
Limpsfield tradition of hanging a loaf in your house on Good Friday for good health. There’s much, much else besides….