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been rebuilt in a substantial but unpicturesque man- 

 ner. The rectory is on the site of an old house sur- 

 rounded by a moat now drained. Winterfold, on the 

 hills, is the modern residence of Lord Alverstone, Lord 

 Chief Justice, Nanhurst of Lady Carbutt, Barrihurst 

 of Colonel W. A. Browne. Wyphurst is an old farm 

 converted into a large modern house, the seat of 

 Mr. Chadwyck Healey, C.B., K.C. It has been en- 

 larged from designs by R. Blomfield, R.A., F.R.I.B.A. 

 The other large houses of the parish are on the site 

 of old manor-houses, and fall under the manorial 

 description. 



Part of the Roman road, which runs through the 

 parish, and which probably went from near Shoreham 

 to Staines, can be traced in Cranleigh parish. 6 



The Peek Institute was founded by the late Sir 

 H. W. Peek, in memory of Lady Peek. It includes 

 a club, with reading and billiard rooms, and a library. 



Cranleigh School was opened 12 October 1865, 

 and largely added to in 1 869, when the chapel was 

 built by the late Sir H. W. Peek at a cost of 6,500. 

 Further additions have been made subsequently. The 

 style is Early English, in brick, with stone wings. 

 The school was originally called the Surrey County 

 School, and special advantages were offered to Surrey 

 boys. It is now equally open to boys from any place. 

 The object of the school is to afford a public-school 

 education on moderate terms, and the religious teach- 

 ing is distinctively Church of England. 7 The whole 

 of the original cost was borne by subscribers, and 

 Sir H. W. Peek, Lord Ashcombe, Sir Walter Farquhar, 

 Mr. Douglas D. Heath, and Archdeacon Sapte, rector 

 of Cranleigh, were among the most prominent of the 

 early supporters and governors of the school. The Rev. 

 J. Merriman, D.D., St. John's College, Cambridge, was 

 the first head master. The late head master was the 

 Rev. G. C. Allen, M.A., St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge. 8 Mr. C. H. Tyler, M. A., was appointed 1 909. 



A reputed native of Cranleigh was Thomas de 

 Cranleigh, Fellow of Merton, 1366, first Warden of 

 Winchester, 1382, Warden of New College, 1389, 

 Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 1390, 

 Archbishop of Dublin, 1397, Chancellor of Ireland 

 1397 to 1400 ; he died in 1417, aged about eighty. 



Cranleigh seems at the time of the Domesday 

 Survey to have formed part of the vills of Shiere, 

 Gomshall, and Bramley. The parish of Cranleigh 

 contains Vachery, part of Pollingfold, Holdhurst, 

 Knowle, Utworth, and Redinghurst, the first three 

 of which were members of Shiere or Gomshall, and 

 the last two of Bramley. 9 



VACHERY in Cranleigh parish was 



MANORS a member of the manor of Shiere 



Vachery. The lords of Shiere kept it in 



CRANLEIGH 



their own hands. The name itself (vaccaria, or dairy) 

 gives sufficient reason for this. Henry III granted 

 bucks to John son of Geoffrey to stock his park of 

 Vachery. 10 His son John obtained a grant of a weekly 

 market and an annual fair at Cranleigh, on the eve, 

 feast, and morrow of Lammas Day," and appropriated 

 to himself free warren there," There was a manor- 

 house in Vachery in 1 296 ; ls at present there is a farm- 

 house and the remains of a moat. The Earls of 

 Ormond resided either at Shiere or Vachery." The 

 farm-house was sold by Earl Onslow in 1783." 

 Nanhurst Farm cum Treewell, part of Vachery, was 

 sold by Lord Onslow in 1815." 



In 1820 Vachery was the property of Thomas 

 Lowndes. 17 



HOLDHURST Manor (Holehurst, xiv cent.) wai 

 an outlying portion of the manor of Shiere, which was 

 called ' Sutton or Holhurst at Downe.' The lands 

 belonging to it in Shiere and Abinger are no doubt 

 the lands which it appears from Domesday were seized 

 by the Bishop of Bayeux, and added to his manor of 

 Bramley. 18 These are treated under Shiere. Later, 

 Holdhurst in Cranleigh and Holdhurst in Shiere 

 became separate estates. 



The history of the property, before its division, 

 seems to be as follows : 



In 1297 Walter of Holdhurst conveyed land in 

 Bramley and Shiere to his son John. 19 There was a 

 Walter of Holdhurst living at Cranleigh in the early 

 years of the reign of Edward III. 10 In May 1368-9 

 Thomas of Holdhurst and his wife, Alice, were in 

 possession of the manor ; " possibly incorrectly so- 

 called, for the Court Rolls of Gomshall Towerhill of 

 1 3 67 say that Thomas Holdhurst held a yard-land 

 in Cranleigh. It continued in his family till the 

 reign of Henry VIII, when, on the death of Thomas 

 of Holdhurst, John Wood and Arnold Champion 

 succeeded in 1532." Arnold Champion died seised 

 of a moiety of the manor in 1546." According 

 to Manning and Bray it was afterwards the property 

 of Richard Wood (possibly son of the above John) 

 and of John his son. His sister and heir, Agnes wife 

 of Richard Welles, conveyed it to Richard Onslow of 

 Knowle, 31 December 1568"; and in 1584 James 

 Hobson and his wife Anne conveyed a moiety of the 

 manor to Richard Browne and Edward Onslow. 15 



Meanwhile Sutton in Shere was now separated from 

 Holdhurst in Cranleigh and the connexion forgotten. 

 Edmund Hill was in possession of the whole of ' Sud- 

 ton aRas Holhurst aftas Halhurst at Downe,' meaning 

 Sutton in Shere, in 1554;" but this had no connexion 

 with the land in Cranleigh. 87 Sir Edward Onslow, 

 son of Thomas, was in possession at his death in 

 1615 ^ of the Cranleigh land. 



* Surr, Arch, Coll. vi, I, and private 

 information to the writer from the late 

 Mr. James Park Harrison, who traced 

 the road. 



1 See also V.C.H. Surr. ii, 221. 



8 Mr. Allen was instituted to the living 

 of Send, Oct. 1908. 



9 Vachery was a member of Shiere 

 Manor (Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, 50 ; 

 Fine R. 27 Edw. I, m. i). Pollingfold 

 and Holdhurst were held of Gomshall 

 Towerhill ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), 

 ccxlvii, 72 ; Ct. R. quoted by Manning 

 and Bray, op. cit. i, 539. Utworth was a 

 member of Bramley, and Redinghurst 

 broke off from Utworth ; Feet of F. Surr. 



19 Hen. Ill, 16; Add. Chart. (B.M.), 

 17606. 



10 Close, 29 Hen. III. m. 15. 



" Chart. R. 56 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 



11 Plac. Ji Quo Warr, (Rec. Com.), 742* 



13 Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, no. 50. 



14 See Mins. Accts. bdle. 1250, no. 4, 

 where under the heading Shere and 

 Vachery the accountant states that there 

 was no return from the 'said house' since 

 it was assigned as the lord's ' hospicium.' 



15 Egerton MS. 2651, fol. 213. 



14 Deeds penes Messrs. Whateley & Bar- 

 low, Godalming. 



W Egerton MS. 2651, fol. 215. 

 y.C.H. Surr. i, 305*. 



87 



" Feet, of F. Surr. 26 Edw. I, 85. 



*>Add. Chart. (B.M.), 7610, 5940, 

 7628 ; and Ct. R. of Gomshall Tower- 

 hill. 



"i Anct. D. (P.R.O.), B. 3942. 



M Ct. R. quoted by Manning and Bray, 

 op. cit. i, 539. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Irxrv, 71. 



94 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, $39. 

 Cf. Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1 1 Eliz. 



Ibid. Mich. 26 & 27 Eliz. 



96 Misc. Bks. Exch. L.T.R. clxix, 211 ; 

 clxviii, 69. 



*7 See below, Shere, for Sutton descent. 



19 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccli, 105 

 Cf. Feet of F. Surr. East 4 Ja, I. 



