A HISTORY OF SURREY 



solicitor to the Treasury 1756-65, M.P. for Hasle- 

 mere 1754-67. He was a distinguished lawyer, 

 antiquary, and collector. He died at Busbridge in 

 1770. Chauncey Hare Townshend the poet was 

 born here in 1798, when his father owned the pro- 

 perty, which he bought in 1796. It now belongs to 

 Mr. P. Graham. The house was pulled down in 

 1 906, and a new one is being erected on a new site. 



The hamlet of Shackleford contains some old cot- 

 tages and farm buildings and many new houses in very 

 beautiful scenery. Hall Place, the house of Richard 

 Wyatt, who built the Mead Row Almshouses, was 

 pulled down. The offices were made an inn, called 

 Cyder House. The inn was acquired by Mr. William 

 Edgar Home, who turned it into a modern mansion. 

 The panelling.and overmantel of the dining-room came 

 from the Cock Tavern in Fleet Street, London, whilst 

 the gallery railings in the hall came from the old 

 Banqueting Hall at Whitehall. 



Neolithic implements found upon Charterhouse 

 Hill and the school cricket ground are now in the 

 school museum. 



King Edward's school is in the Laborne tithing of 

 Godalming parish, close to Witley Station. It is a 

 school for destitute boys who have never been con- 

 victed of crime, who are trained for the Army, Navy, 

 or industrial life, and is under the control of the 

 Governors of Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospital. The 



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SHACKLEFORD : OLD CIDER PRESS HOUSE AT 

 HALL PLACE 



corresponding girls' school is in Southwark. This 

 building was erected in 1867, and enlarged in 1882 

 and 1887, and will hold 240 boys. It is in the 

 Italian Renaissance style in brick. There is a chapel 

 for the joint use of this school and the Convalescent 

 Home for women and children in Witley. 



The Technical Institute and School of Science and 

 Art in Bridge Road was built in 1896 in the Renais- 

 sance style from designs by Mr. S. Welman. 



A cemetery was opened in 1857. The present 

 cemetery was opened in 1899. It serves both the 

 civil parishes, the town and Godalming Rural, and is 

 under joint management. 



A Roman Catholic chapel used to exist, but had no 

 resident priest. The new Roman Catholic Church of 

 St. Edmund King and Martyr is in Croft Road. It 



was consecrated in 1906. It consists of a plain nave 

 and chancel divided by a pointed arch. It is of local 

 stone with a tiled roof. On the north is a low tower. 

 The Unitarian chapel in Mead Row was built 

 before 1 809, when worship is first recorded there in 

 the church books, in accordance with a resolution 

 passed as far back as 1788, for a Baptist congregation 

 which had met at Worplesdon, and which admitted 

 another body of Unitarian Baptists who met at 

 Crownpits, Godalming, in 1814. In 1818 the 

 Baptist qualification was dropped, and the meeting 

 became Unitarian as the older members died. 



A Congregational chapel was opened in 1730 in 

 Hart Lane. The building has been replaced since. 

 Under Charles II the population of Godalming had 

 been very largely nonconformist ; 700 or 800 people 

 met in a conventicle every Sunday, and 400 or 500 

 monthly in a Quaker's house, out of a population of 

 under 3,ooo. 19 In 1725 there was no meeting house, 

 but ' several kinds of Protestant Dissenters of no great 

 consideration as to numbers or quality.' * The con- 

 gregation may be considered however the lineal repre- 

 sentative of the conventicle of the reign of Charles II, 

 organized in 1730. There is now a Wesleyan chapel, 

 a Friends' meeting house, and a small Baptist chapel, 

 opened in 1903. 



The parish is divided into two civil parishes, 

 Godalming Urban and Godalming Rural." The 

 former includes the borough of 897 acres. 



There were anciently nine tithings, for which tith- 

 ingmen were chosen : Godalming Enton (the town), 

 Binscombe, Catteshull, Bashing, Farncombe, Hurtmore, 

 Laborne, Shackleford, Tuesley. Tithingmen also 

 attended the Godalming Hundred Court from Shackle- 

 ford, Arlington and Littleton (in St. Nicholas Guild- 

 ford), Compton, Peper Harow, Chiddingfold Magna, 

 Chiddingfold Parva, and Haslemere. But the names 

 of the tithings vary from time to time, nor are they 

 all constantly represented in the extant rolls. High 

 Tithing, from which tithingmen also came, is the 

 same as Upper Bashing, answering nearly to Bus- 

 bridge. To the Godalming Enton Court Vann, 

 Haslemere, Chiddingfold, Shackleford, Bashing, and 

 Godalming constantly sent tithingmen. All these were 

 originally in the manor and were perhaps in the parish. 

 There were parish churches at Compton, Chidding- 

 fold, and Haslemere, and churches at Tuesley, Hurt- 

 more, Catteshull, Arlington (St. Catherine) ; there 

 are modern churches at Farncombe, Shackleford, and 

 Busbridge." 



In Domesday in the manor held by Ranulf Flam- 

 bard, which was afterwards known as the Reclory 

 Manor, ihere are twelve cotarii mentioned. In the 

 king's manor of Godalming there were no cotarii, 

 but in Tuesley, held by Flambard, were six cotarii. 

 Tuesley was afterwards included in the Rectory 

 Manor. In the rolls preserved at Loseley there 

 are fourteen, and in the survey of I Edward VI, 

 eighteen cotholders, on the king's manor. They 

 are described as libere tenentes a or ' free ten- 

 ants,' but their services seem to have been similar 

 to the ordinary villein services in kind, though 

 different in particulars. They all paid small money 

 renls. They goi in the lord's hay ;" and did suit at 

 the courts." They paid heriots on succession, and 



19 V.C.H. Surr. ii, 39, 40. 



K Bishop Willis' Visitation, 1724-5. 



56 & 57 Viet. cap. 73. 



See below. 

 Miru. Accts. 

 Hen. VIII, no. n. 



Mic. Co. 33, 34 



" Ct. R. 24 Aug. 3 1 Edw HI. 



* Ct. R. 23 Aug. 31 Hen. VI, Ac. 



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