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Titsey is a rural village and a civil parish on the North Downs almost wholly within the M25 London Orbital Motorway in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England.
In local government it forms the south-western part of the ward Tatsfield and Titsey and in national statistics approximates to output area E00157289. It has no railway stations however one is centred south-west, Oxted which also has the administrative centre of the district. Approximately half of it land is owned by a charity running the Titsey Place estate, with the remainder being a mixture of common land and privately owned woodland and smallholdings.
The eastern parish boundary follows the London to Lewes Way Roman road which descends the escarpment of the North Downs here, crossing two important ancient east–west routes, the North Downs ridgeway and the Pilgrims Way on the lower slopes.Margary (1948: 130)
Titsey appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as a village: Ticesei held by Haimo the Sheriff (of Kent) when its assets were: 2 hides; 1 church, 9 , pasture worth every seventh hog of the . It rendered £11 per year to its feudal system overlords. Surrey Domesday Book
The parish church of St James the Greater dates from 1861 and is on the site of an earlier church built in 1776. That in turn replaced a much older church, dating from the 14th century. Some of the memorials to the John Gresham family date from the 16th and 17th centuries. There is a 19th century side chapel with memorials to the Leveson-Gower family.
Until the early 20th century, the local economy was entirely agricultural.
In 1929, the BBC established its radio signals receiving station in the parish of Titsey, though the facility was named after the nearby village of Tatsfield. The station's masts and shortwave aerials were a prominent local landmark. "The BBC Engineering Measurement and Receiving Station at Tatsfield" Recollections of BBC engineering from 1922 to 1997 "The BBC Engineering Measurement and Receiving Station at Tatsfield" BBC Engineering Information Department pamphlet, 1961 The station closed in 1974 when its work was merged with that of BBC Monitoring receiving station at Crowsley Park in South Oxfordshire. Information relating to the Tatsfield Monitoring Station BBC response to Freedom of Information request, January 2010 Some derelict remains of the BBC station can still be seen. Derelict Places Tatsfield Monitoring Station
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The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.
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In 2011 the ward of the United Kingdom, Tatsfield and Titsey, almost twice its size, had 1,816 inhabitants
It is a dispersed settlement bordering Farleigh to the north and the London Borough of Bromley to the north-east. Biggin Hill is to the north-east, across the village centre of Tatsfield. The boundary with Kent is centred east. Titsey has two depending on exact location.
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