A HISTORY OF SURREY 



now insignificant. At the change of style it was 

 brought on to 2 October. Within the memory of 

 the last generation universal selling of beer by the in- 

 habitants continued, and the fair was of real com- 

 mercial importance. Turner drew the chapel in Liber 

 Studiorum. The old Portsmouth road went over the 

 hill, near the chapel, and a cross-way led to the ferry, 

 which is probably on the site of the ford for the 

 Pilgrims' way. The fair was at the crossways. 



Caleb Lovejoy in 1 677 left property 



CHARITIES in Sonthwark for the teaching and 



apprenticing of boys in the parish, the 



preaching of a sermon, and the providing of a dinner, 

 on the anniversary of his death. The surplus was to 

 go to the foundation of almshouses for poor women. 

 In fact the property was insufficient, and the alms- 

 houses were not built till 1841. They hold four 

 women. They are nearly on the site of the house of 

 Caleb Lovejoy's father, which can be fixed from an 

 agreement recorded in the Parish Register. 



George Ben brick in 1682 gave sums charged on 

 land at Alton and at Shalford for poor freemen (of 

 the borough) or their widows residing in St. 

 Nicholas. 



CHIDDINGFOLD 



Chedelingefelt (xii cent.) ; Chidingefalde(xiiicent.) ; 

 Chudyngfold (xiv cent.). Twenty-eight different 

 spellings are found. 



The parish of Chiddingfold lies between Haslemere 

 and Witley on the west, Godalming and Hambledon 

 on the north, Dunsfold on the east, and Sussex on 

 the south. Part of the parish was transferred to 

 the ecclesiastical parish of Grayswood in 1 900. The 

 village is 7 miles south of Godalming. The area is 

 7,036 acres of land, and 7 of water. The soil is the 

 Wealden Clay, very deep and tenacious in wet weather, 

 but not unfertile. The parish is well wooded. The 

 oak flourishes as usual upon this soil, and the ash is 

 grown commercially for the making of walking-sticks 

 and umbrellas. There are tile and brick works. 



Formerly glass-making was largely carried on. The 

 industry was curiously persistent, though not probably 

 continuous, in the neighbourhood. Much Roman 

 glass, some of it now in the museum of the Surrey 

 Archaeological Society at Guildford, has been found 

 in Chiddingfold. Remains of a Roman villa exist, 

 but the glass is more abundant than would necessarily 

 be the case were it merely the rubbish from one house, 

 and probably glass was made here. In the 1 3 th century 

 (c. 1225-30) Simon de Stokas granted land in 

 Chiddingfold, at Dyer's Cross, to Laurence the Glass- 

 maker. 1 The history of the industry in the I4th 

 century, and under Elizabeth, is dealt with in an 

 earlier volume of this history.' On Thursday after 

 Michaelmas, 1440, John Courtemulle of Chidding- 

 fold was presented and fined for leather-dressing outside 

 a market town. These country industries are con- 

 tinually noted, the same people being fined again 

 and again. 



The Godalming Hundred Rolls show that the 

 parish was divided into two tithings of Chiddingfold 

 Magna and Chiddingfold Parva in 1538. Earlier 

 there had been three, Chiddingfold Magna to the 

 west, Pokeford or Chiddingfold Parva to the east, 

 Sittinghurst in the middle, afterwards merged in 

 Chiddingfold Parva. The rolls show * that there were 

 at least eight bridges, Southbrugge or Stonebridge, 

 Middilbrugge, Pokeford Bridge, Bothedenesbrigge, 

 Hazelbridge, Godleybridge, Jayesbridge, and Dene- 

 brugge, reparable by the Villa de Chudyngfold, and 

 complaints were constant of the bad state of repair 

 or the flooding of the via regia, the road, no doubt, 

 which runs from Godalming through Hambledon and 

 Chiddingfold into Sussex, which was reparable by certain 



1 D. in Surr. Arch. Society's Museum. ' ; 



tenants in Chiddingfold, and easily became impassable 

 on the heavy clay. It was continually submersa, or 

 profunda, or noxia. There are traces of another 

 old road in the parish, running north-eastward 

 towards Dunsfold. The common over which this 

 road goes is always High Street Common on old 

 maps and deeds. Rye Street is parallel to it on the 

 north. There were two mills at Sittinghurst and le 

 Estmull. But the most remarkable presentment to be 

 made at a Hundred Court is that on 29 September 

 1483, when Richard Skynner of Chiddingfold 'non 

 venit admissam in festialibus diebus sed vivit suspiciose'; 

 was a Lollard, in short. The lord of the hundred 

 was a bishop, we may remember. 



There are no references to common fields in the 

 rolls in Chiddingfold, though they are frequent in 

 Godalming proper. There seem never to have been 

 common fields in the Weald, which was scarcely in- 

 habited, or thinly inhabited only, in 1086 and before 

 then. Nevertheless the common lands of the manor 

 of Godalming within Chiddingfold were inclosed 

 under an award dated 1811, now in the custody of 

 the clerk of the peace. 



There is a Congregational chapel, built in 1871, 

 and a small Particular Baptist chapel at Ramsnest 

 Common. 



Schools were built at private expense in 1868, and 

 in 1872 at Anstead Brook. 



Chiddingfold and its neighbourhood abound in 

 ancient farm-houses and cottages, prominent among 

 which may be mentioned Lythe Hill Farm, with half- 

 timber work of two periods, 

 the richer and later being a 

 gabled wing with square and 

 circle patterns in the timber 

 framing, probably c. 1580; 

 but the main body of the 

 house is at least half a century 

 earlier. The wing is panelled, 

 and has a good mantelpiece of 

 c. 1700. It was owned by 

 the Quenell, Quenel, or Quy- 

 neld family, to which, as the 

 name is uncommon, the Quy- 

 nolds who held land at Ware, 

 Hertfordshire, in the I4th 

 century, may have belonged. 



QUINILL of Chidding- 

 fold. Azure a cross ar- 

 gent between tvn rases or 

 in the chief and tvnf curs- 

 de-lit argent in the foot. 



They were in Chiddingfold in the I4th and 

 centuries. Peter Quenell, of Lythe Hill, died in 1559, 



'Hund. Ct. 27 Apr. 1357, inter alia. 



, Surr. ii, 195. 

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