GODALMING HUNDRED 



PEPER HAROW 



The registers date from 1572. 



The church plate includes a cup and paten cover of 

 1669, a credence paten of 1672, a paten of 1718, a 

 cup of 1730, and a flagon of 1793 all of silver. 



The place where the present church stands upon 

 the side of the town opposite to 'Old Haslemere' 

 (vide supra) was called Piperham, and the church here 

 is the ' capella de Piperham ' which with Chiddingfold 

 is mentioned in 1 1 80 and 1185 in the Salisbury 

 Registers. 56 A deed of 1486 in the possession 

 of Mr. J. W. Penfold shows that the road from 

 the upper end of Haslemere Street leading to the 

 present church then led to Piperham Church. A 

 fragment of a Court Roll at Loseley of 6 & 7 James I 

 mentions the road as out of order leading from ' Pep- 

 perham's church in Haslemere by Pilemarsh.' Pile- 

 marsh is between the present church and Haslemere 

 Station. There probably was another church, now 

 gone, on East Hill, whence the tradition of seven 

 churches. Also in 1458 John Piperham leased to 

 John Boxfold of Haslemere his tenement called Piper- 

 hammes next the church in Haslemere on the under- 

 standing that Boxfold should perform all services due 

 to the king, the lord of the fee, and to the church.* 7 

 There was also a tenement called Howndleswater, 

 rtherwise Peperham in Haslemere, of which John 

 Bridger was possessed when he died in February 

 1 5 80- 1. 58 



The parish was a chapelry in the parish of Chid- 

 dingfold, but in 1363 Bishop Edyngton of Winchester 

 granted licence for the consecration of a long-existing 



chapel and burial-ground at Haslemere in place of 

 the old churchyard near the old church. 69 The dis- 

 trict possessed parish officers and registers of its own, 

 and though a rector was usually, till recently, instituted 

 to the rectory of Chiddingfold with Haslemere, a 

 separate curate was often in residence. It has been 

 in all respects a separate parish since 1869. 



The history of the advowson is 

 ADVOWSON coincident with that of the mother- 

 church of Chiddingfold till 1868. 

 In that year a rector was instituted to the churches of 

 Chiddingfold and Haslemere on the understanding that 

 he should resign the latter when called upon to do so. 

 This he did in 1869, when Haslemere became a 

 separate rectory. 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. 



James Bicknell by will 27 Novem- 

 ber 1633 ' ft tne produce of certain land, of about 

 1 3*. \d. a year, to the churchwardens for the poor. 

 James Gresham, lessee of the tolls of the market, left 

 the tolls and an almshouse in 1676. The almshouse 

 exists, but is now unendowed. In 1816 Mr. Shudd, 

 a solicitor of the town, left 350 to the poor. 



There is a cottage hospital founded by John Pen- 

 fold, opened in 1898, in commemoration of the 

 Diamond Jubilee of the late Queen Victoria ; a 

 convalescent home, founded and maintained by Jona- 

 than Hutchinson; and a holiday home at East Hill, 

 established by Mrs. Stewart Hodgson in 1884, for 

 the reception of poor girls from London. 



PEPER HAROW 



Pipereherge (xi cent.) ; Piperinges (xiii cent.) ; 

 Pyperhaghe (xiv cent.). 



Peper Harow is a small parish lying west of 

 Godalming town. It measures about 4 miles from 

 north to south, about 2 miles in breadth in the 

 northern and under a mile in the southern part. 

 The soil is exclusively the Lower Green Sand, except 

 for alluvium in the valley of the Wey, which runs 

 in a winding course across the parish from west to 

 east. The southern part of the parish includes 

 Ockley Common and Pudmoor, extensive heathlands 

 connected with Thursley Common and Elstead Heath. 

 In the northern part of it is Peper Harow Park, the 

 seat of Viscount Midleton, extending to both sides 

 of the Wey, and reaching on the southern bank into 

 Witley parish. The area is 1,301 acres of land and 

 19 of water. The road from Farnham to Godal- 

 ming crosses the parish from west to east. The 

 population is under 200. 



The charter of Edward of Wessex to the church 

 of Winchester, c. 909,' gives the boundary of Elstead 

 and of Peper Harow as it now exists in part : 

 ' Aerest act vii dican to Ottanforda, swa to Sumaeres 

 forda, (now Somerset Bridge), Souan to Ocanlea 

 (Ockley Common).' 



The park and grounds at Peper Harow contain 



some fine timber, notably some cedars of Lebanon, 

 which were put in as seedlings from pots in 1735.* 



In the park are the remains of Oxenford Grange, 

 a grange of Waverley Abbey. The fifth Viscount 

 Midleton employed Mr. Pugin to build an imitation 

 13th-century farm here, and a gatehouse to the park 

 in the same style in 1844, and in 1843 Mr. Pugin 

 built an arch of similar design over the Bonfield 

 Spring in the neighbourhood a medicinal spring 

 of local repute, said by Aubrey to be good for all 

 eyesores and ulcers. This land of Oxenford is 

 now counted in Witley parish.* 



A conveyance to Sir Walter Covert in 1605 

 speaks of the land in the ' Parish and Field ' of 

 Peper Harow. But the end of ' the Field ' is not 

 known. There was no Inclosure Act. 



PEPER HAROW was held by Alward 

 MANOR under Edward the Confessor, and after the 

 Conquest carne into the possession of 

 Walter, Governor of Windsor Castle, son of Other, 

 ancestor of the Windsors, 4 to whose honour of Windsor 

 the overlordship of the manor belonged. 6 The actual 

 tenant of Peper Harow in 1086 was a certain Girard,* 

 one of whose successors, Osbert of Peper Harow, sold 

 Peper Harow to Ralph de Broc. His son-in-law 

 Stephen de Turnham received a confirmation of the 



M Rtg. of St. Osmund (Rolls Ser.), i, 268, 460. Thit would be the present, i.e. 

 301, 303. ' Add. Chart. 27757. Piperham, church. 



1 Kemble, Codex Difl. 1093, v > '7^- 



1 MS. at Peper Harow. 



8 For a further account of it ee under 



88 Exch. Mint. Accti. 34-5 Hen. VIII, 

 Div. Co. R. 64, m. 19 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 (Ser. 2), cxcvii, 64. 



" Winton Epit. Reg. Edyngton, ii, 



Witley. 



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. Surr. i, 323.1. 

 * Tata di Nit/ill (Rec. Com.), 220 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 27 Edw. Ill (lit no*.}, 

 no. 61 ; ibid. I Ric. Ill, 23 ; ibid. (Ser. 

 2), x, 97. 



. Surr. i, 313*. 



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