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| | The Parish of St Andrew and St Mark, Surbiton |
 | | Surbiton two hundred years ago was a rural area of farms and farmhouses, some brick kilns, a few very large houses, the Waggon and Horses pub, the Plough Inn, three turnpikes, and very little else except bare common dotted with furze bushes. |
 | | The chapel of ease for Lower Surbiton was a small iron church built at the corner of North Road, opposite the church schools, which held its first service on Advent Sunday 1860. |
 | | After three years in Surbiton he was given the living of Cowley, in Oxford, where he gave up his dream of missionary work in India, and instead ministered to another growing suburb. |
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