THE HUNDRED OF WOTTON 



ABINGER 

 CAPEL 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



DORKING 

 OCKLEY 



WOTTON ' 



Wotton Hundred 8 (Odeton, xi cent. ; Wodetone, until xvi cent.) was found 

 by the Domesday Commissioners to include Dorking, Sutton in Shiere, part of 

 Compton in Sussex, Burgham, Wyke, Worplesdon, Betchworth, Milton, 

 Anstie Farm, Abinger, and Paddington. Of these, Sutton in Shiere was shortly 



afterwards attached by the Bishop of Bayeux 

 to his manor of Bramley in Blackheath 

 Hundred, 8 while Compton, as the county 

 borders became more settled, was presum- 

 ably included in Sussex with the other lands 

 of Roger de Montgomery, who held it at 

 the time of the Survey. It has been sug- 

 gested that Burgham, Wyke, and Wor- 

 plesdon owed their inclusion in Wotton 

 Hundred 4 to a clerical error, and it was 

 possibly due to the same cause that Ockley 

 at the time of the Survey was placed in 

 Woking. It seems probable that ' Beche- 

 worth ' refers to East Betchworth, now in 

 Reigate Hundred : Milton and Anstie 

 Farm are both in Dorking parish. 



The sheriffs courts were held in 

 Dorking, whence the usual later name. The hundred does not appear 

 to have been alienated from the Crown until it was granted by James I 

 to Sir Edward Zouche, 1620, at the same time and in the same manner 

 as the hundreds of Blackheath and Woking (see under Blackheath Hundred),, 

 and likewise descended to Earl Onslow. 



1 Population Returns, 1831, ii, 636. 



1 The hundred appears as Dorking Hundred in Norden's Map of Surrey (1610), given in y.C.H. Surr. i > 

 while the name Wotton is alternative to Blackheath, by a mere error of Norden's. 

 1 y.C.H. Surr. i, 305*. 4 Ibid. 3 1 3*. 



INDEX MAP 

 TO THE 



HUNDRED 



or 



WOTTON 



128 



