GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



seated the ancient town of Guildford, its picturesque 

 High Street running straight up from the river to a 

 higher point upon the chalk on the way to London 

 and Epsom. 



In far-away days it is probable that the whole of 

 the valley, on whose southern edge Great Tangley 

 stands, was filled with marsh and forest ; much of it, 

 perhaps, impassable. But the house and its moated 

 enclosure were seated on dry ground at the foot of 

 the sand-hills, and were sufficiently watered by its 

 own stream, which supplied the dwelling and filled 

 the moat, a necessary defence at the time of its 

 building. The fish-pond above supplied some of its 



Howard. Later it was sold to John Caryl, who, in 

 the reign of Queen Elizabeth, built the handsome 

 timbered front. 



The connection of Tangley with the Howards 

 (Dukes of Norfolk) was of special interest ; for the 

 romantic figure of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey- 

 accomplished gentleman, brave soldier and one of 

 the first poets of his age ; a man who added to his 

 grace of Royal descent the finest qualities and most 

 worthily-prized acquirements of the time in which he 

 lived would have inherited the place, had he not 

 been beheaded in his father's lifetime. Descendants 

 of the Caryls held Great Tangley till the first half of 



THE SHE OF THE AKC1ENT DRAWBRIDGE. 



needs, and it must always have had good access to 

 Guildford and to the neighbouring villages to the 

 south and south-west. 



The place is described in an old chronicle as 

 having been "a homestead in Saxon times." In later 

 days, William the Conqueror gave the manor to Odo, 

 Bishop of Bayeux. Then it was Crown property till 

 the time of Henry I., when it was granted to a 

 private person. It seems to have returned to the 

 Crown more than once, till in 1173 King John 

 granted it to John de Kay, whose family held it 

 till i ^72, when, for lack of male heirs, it passed 

 successively to the families of Braose, Mowbray and 



the last century, when it was sold to Kletcher Norton, 

 Speaker of the House of Commons. After the death 

 of his descendant, Lord Grantley, all the Grantley 

 property in the neighbourhood was dispersed, 

 and Great Tangley Manor was bought, in 1884, 

 by Mr. Wickham Klower. During Lord Grantley's 

 time the place was used as a farmhouse ; the moat 

 was choked with earth and rubbish, and overgrown 

 with brambles and wild brushwood. At one point it 

 had been filled up with a solid causeway, where 

 waggons could pass to the building. Orchard and 

 cabbage patch came right up to the house, and the 

 rough roadway was pitted with fowls' dusting-holes 



