A HISTORY OF SURREY 



The district of St. Mary, Holmwood, was taken 

 out of Dorking and Capel parishes and erected into a 

 separate parish in 1838. The living is in the gift of 

 the Bishop of Winchester. 



The parish of St. John, North Holmwood, was 

 formed in 1874 from the northern part of the parish 

 of St. Mary. The Bishop of Winchester is patron of 

 this living also. 



The parish of Holy Trinity, Westcote, was formed 

 with Milton, in 1852. The living is in the gift of 

 Mr. Robert Barclay of Bury Hill. 



Smith's charity exists, but unlike the 

 CHARITIES usual practice in the other Surrey 

 parishes is administered by the parish, 

 not by the trustees. The Rev. Samuel Cozens, 

 Presbyterian minister in Dorking 1656-9, who prob- 

 ably resigned before 1662, left land at Chislet in 

 Kent which was added to Smith's land. 



Cotmandene Almshouses for eighteen poor persons 

 were erected on land given to the vicar and church- 

 wardens by the Hon. Charles Howard of Deepdene 

 and Sir Adam Browne of Betchworth Castle in 1677, 

 and were endowed by Mrs. Susannah Smith. A decree 

 in Chancery established the legacy in 1718. Mr. 

 William Ansell left 200 consols in 1 830. Mr. Richard 

 Lowndes of Rose Hill left 320 consols in 1831. 



Messrs. Joseph and John Sanders gave 700 consols 

 in 1839 to the same object. 



In 1 706 Mr. William Hutton left 61, a year accru- 

 ing out of a copyhold in Brockham for bread to the 

 poor on Good Friday. 



In 1725 Mrs. Margaret Fenwick left by will 800 

 which was laid out in the purchase of a farm called 

 Fordland in Albury, for the apprenticing of poor 

 children, providing a marriage portion for maid-ser- 

 vants who had lived blamelessly in the same family for 

 seven years, and the residue to the poor in alms. 



Summers' Charity was founded in 1807 by Mr. 

 Thomas Summers, a hatter of Horsham, who used to 

 travel between Horsham and Dorking. He left 100 

 each to Horsham, Dorking, and Capel. The money 

 was laid out in buying 134 3 per cent, consols, and 

 the income is devoted to buying bread for the poor. 



An annuity of zot. for forty poor widows is charged 

 upon a piece of land called Poor Folks' Close in 

 Dorking, but the benefactor is unknown. 



Dorking Cottage Hospital, containing seventeen 

 beds and three cots for children, was built in 1871 on 

 land given at a nominal rent by Mrs. Hope of Deep- 

 dene. It is supported by voluntary contributions and 

 payment of patients. The Right Hon. G. Cubitt, M.P. 

 (Lord Ashcombe), gave 1,000 towards the building. 



OCKLEY 



Aclea (x cent.), Hoclei (xi cent.), Okeley (xiii 

 cent.), Occle, Ockel (xiv cent.), Okkeleghe, Hock- 

 legh (xv cent.), Okeleigh, Okeley (xii cent.), and 

 many other variations. 



Ockley is 7 miles south-west of Dorking. It has 

 been bounded since 1879, when the outlying portions 

 were consolidated with neighbouring parishes, by 

 Abinger and Wotton on the west, by Capel on the 

 north and east, and by the county of Sussex on the 

 south. In 1901 ' a further rectification of the 

 boundary with Wotton and Abinger was made. 

 The parish contains 2,992 acres, and measures about 

 4. miles from north-east to south-west, and about l^ 

 miles from west to east. Since the outlying portions 

 on Holmbury and Leith Hills have been separated the 

 parish is entirely on the Wealden Clay, but in the 

 northern part considerable beds of paludinae, forming 

 the conglomerate called Sussex marble, occur. 



The parish is agricultural, except for a little brick 

 and tile making. 



The Portsmouth line of the London, Brighton, 

 and South Coast Railway passes through its eastern 

 side. Ockley and Capel Station, in Ockley, was 

 opened in 1867. Through the whole length of the 

 parish the Roman road from London to Chichester, 

 called the Stone Street, runs. For a considerable 

 distance it is still used, but at both extremities of 

 the parish the modern roads turn off abruptly from 

 it, though the old line has been traced through the 

 fields and copses. Ockley Church, Ockley Court, the 

 remains of a fortified place to be noted presently, and 

 probably the original Ockley village, lay a little 



distance off the road to the east. Along the line of 

 what is called in the manorial rolls Stone Street 

 Causeway, and all round Ockley Green, a large 

 stretch of open common lying along the west side of 

 the road, cottages and houses sprang up. These are 

 now known as Ockley village, but were formerly 

 called Stone Street. 8 There is no doubt that near 

 here was fought the great battle in which Ethelwulf 

 and Ethelbald defeated the Danes, probably in 851. 

 It was at Aclea, among the Suthrige, according to the 

 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and the existence of the 

 road explains the movements of the armies. 8 The 

 discovery of human remains on Etherley Farm in 

 1882 may place the actual scene of conflict on the 

 dry hillside north-west of Ockley Green.* Ockley in 

 Surrey does not seem, however, to be the scene of the 

 Synod of the 8th century ; the circumstances of 

 which point to a place in the north of England. 



On the far side of the field north of Ockley 

 Church, among some trees, is an earthwork. It was 

 apparently a pear-shaped inclosure with the broader 

 end to the east. The length is nearly 300 ft. At 

 the eastern end is a broad mound with an extension 

 thrown back at a right angle to face north. Outside 

 this north-eastern angle is a ravelin or platform with 

 traces of a ditch round it. The southern side is 

 bounded by a stream in an artificially-straightened 

 ravine. The eastern front may have been covered 

 with an inundation. On the northern side only the 

 traces of a ditch remain, but in the angle where this 

 joins the stream, to the west, are traces of a small 

 mound. West of this angle again are traces of an 



1 By Local Govt. Bd. Order, no. 

 42600. 



a As e.g. in Burton, Iter Surrienst, 175 1, 

 Rocque's map, 1770, and the map in 

 Gibson's Camden, 1695. N.B. The 



modern spelling Stane Street is an affecta- 

 tion. The natives call it Staan Street, as 

 they call Dorking Barking, but the old 

 spelling is Stone, and the local family 

 name derived from it is Stonestreet. 



ISO 



r.C.H.Surr.\, 331,332. 



4 Ibid. The remains were in Wotton 

 parish, but Ockley is very much nearer to 

 the eitc than Wotton. 



