A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Fulham, Canon of Windsor, who died 1 694, aged 90, 

 and was buried at Compton. 



Of the bells, the treble is by Brian Eldridge, 1634, 

 and the second by the same founder, 1660. The 

 tenor is by Mears, 1845. 



The church was mentioned in 

 ADVQWSOX the Domesday Survey of Compton. 1 " 

 The advowson seems to have been in 

 dispute early in the 1 4th century between the lords 

 of Foisted and Compton Westbury, for, though 

 Hugh of Foisted granted the advowson with Foisted 

 to Simon Passelew, 1 " Henry of Guildford, lord of 

 Westbury, died seised of it ; his successor, John the 

 Marshal, disputed the presentation, and finally John 

 of Brideford presented a rector." 6 Thenceforward the 

 history of the advowson was coincident with that of 

 Compton Westbury, saving that during the I Jth and 

 1 8th centuries the Mores and their descendants sold 

 the right of presentation for several turns to members 



of the Fulham family. 187 It is now in the hands of 

 the owner of Loseley and Westbury. 



The charities are Smith's Charity, 

 CHARITIES on the usual terms for the relief of 

 deserving poor, charged on the War- 

 bleton estate, Sussex ; a bequest by Richard Wyatt, in 

 his will, 20 March 1618, for the maintenance of one 

 poor man, with is. gd. a week and clothes once a 

 year, in the almshouses at Godalming trustees, the 

 Carpenters' Company ; 50.1., charged on land in 

 Compton, in bread and money to the poor and 

 clothes to two aged persons, by John Thompsall, first 

 distributed in 1674, in the hands of the church- 

 wardens and overseers ; a gown yearly to one poor 

 woman, and the overplus bread, by Mrs. Jane 

 Aburne, by will 19 May 1708. 



A convalescent home for four inmates was founded 

 in 1884 by Miss Hagart, and is supported by Mrs. 

 Ellice of Eastbury. 



GODALMING 



Godelminge (xi cent.) ; Godhalminges and Godeli- 

 ming (xiii cent.) ; Godlyman (xvii cent.). 1 



The town of Godalming is 32 miles from London, 

 and 4 from Guildford. The parish is of an extremely 

 irregular shape, the extreme measurements being 6 

 miles north and south, 4 miles east and west. The 

 area is 6,980 acres of land, and 59 of water. 



The parish is entirely upon the Lower Green Sand, 

 with the exception of alluvium in the valley of the 

 Wey. The town lies in the valley, but its outskirts 

 extend on to the hill to the south, called Holloway 

 Hill, and to the north near Hurtmore, where the 

 Charterhouse School stands. The most extensive 

 open ground is Highden Heath to the south, near 

 Hambledon. High Down is a corruption ; it was 

 Hyddenesheth in 1453,' and Hyde Stile is near it. 

 Hyden Ball rises to 592 ft. above the sea. Chauncey 

 Hare Townshend, a poet of some celebrity, born at 

 Busbridge in Godalming, 1798, celebrated the view 

 from it. Burghgate, or Burgate Farm, where a road 

 comes up the declivity of the sand from the Weald, 

 perhaps gives its name to Bargate stone, a well-known 

 building stone. But Topley * says that though the 

 stone occurs freely in the parish, it does not occur here. 

 Manning and Bray suggest that this was the en- 

 trance to Godalming Common Park, which stretched 

 over the waste land hence to the common fields on 

 Holloway Hill and near Busbridge, south of the 

 town. The tenants by copy of court roll had to 

 repair the park palings. 4 The park is marked with 

 no inclosure in Rocque's map ; but, from absence of 

 any early reference to it, the probability is that 

 ' park,' in the sense of ' a pound,' is here intended. 

 The meadows to the west, up the Wey, are called 

 Salgasson. In the 1 4th century this was spelt 

 Chelnersgarston. The meadows by the river, north 



of the town, were lammas lands, common pasture 

 for the parish; under regulations as to the number 

 of beasts allowed to townsmen. Westmede was 

 old common pasture closed from Lady Day to 

 St. Peter ad Vincula.* The common fields had been 

 partly alienated to private use in Elizabeth's time. 

 In Court Rolls of 23 September 1591 it appears 

 that Arnold Champion had alienated to John West- 

 broke 6 acres by estimation, lately parcels of the field 

 called ' Godalmyng field,' and four closes of 1 6 acres 

 lately parcel of the field called ' Ashtedfielde ' in Godal- 

 ming. The fields in Shackleford were called Estfield, 

 Southfield, and Buryland. 



Shackleford inclosure had begun earlier. On 5 Oc- 

 tober 1503 Robert Bedon had inclosed 'land called 

 Andyelle,' ' Rydys and Wodecrofte, that was never 

 before inclosed.' The final Inclosure Act for Godal- 

 ming and Catteshull was passed in l8o3, 6 and Pease- 

 marsh, partly in Godalming, Compton, and Arlington, 

 was inclosed by an Act of the same year. 7 



The three ancient mills of the Domesday Survey 

 were at Catteshull (mentioned 22 September 1453), 

 Westbrook (mentioned 21 September 1441), and 

 Eashing ; and there was a mill called Southmill at 

 Lalleborne 8 (Laborne). 



The road from Guildford to Portsmouth passes 

 through the parish, and also the South Western Rail- 

 way (Portsmouth line), opened through in 1859. ^ n 

 1 849 however, the line had been taken from Guildford 

 to Godalming old station, now used for goods only 

 as a siding. Farncombe station was opened when 

 old Godalming station was disused in 1898. The 

 Wey Navigation was extended from Guildford to 

 Godalming in 1 760, with four locks. 



The old bridge of Godalming was owned by the 

 lords of the manor and hundred. It was only open 



1M V.C.H. Surr. i, 322*. 



Feet of F. Surr. 45 Hen. Ill, 30. 

 It is alo mentioned in the conveyance of 

 Foisted by John de Middleton. 



la6 Egerton MSS. 2031, 2034. 



W Imt. Bks. P.R.O. 



1 In 1647 it was spelt God Almaignt. 

 The pronunciation of that time is illus- 



trated by the following 17th-century 

 proverb : 



He that shall say well, do well, and 



think well in mind, 

 Shall as soon come to heaven, as they 



that dwell at Godalming.' 



(Add. MS. (B.M.), 6167, fol. 167). 

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" Ct. R. Geol. of the Weald, 123. 

 < Ct. R. 2 Chas. I, Monday after St. 

 Matt. 5 Ct. R. Aug. 2, 1453. 



6 43 Geo. Ill, cap. 99. The award wa 

 dated 1811. 



7 43 Geo. Ill, cap. 94. 



8 Thursday after Michaelmas I 108 ; 

 Ct. R. 



