GODALMING, a town of England, in the county of Surrey, on the river Wey, 35 miles from London. It is a corporation; by whose charter their chief magistrate is a warden chosen yearly, who has 8 brethren his assistants. The parish is divided into 9 tithings. Its river abounds with good fish; and drives a grist-mill, two paper-mills, and three corn-mills; over which river a new bridge was begun July 22d 1783. Here is a manufactory of mixed and blue kerseys, also a manufactory of stockings; and the place is also famous for liquorice, and store of peat that burns better than pit-coal: but a woman of this town (Mary Tofts) in 1726 endeavoured to render it infamous, by a pretend-
ed delivery of rabbits; by which, however, she for some time puzzled some noted physicians, anatomists, &c. In 1739, the small-pox carried off above 500 persons here in 3 months, which was more than a third of the inhabitants.