THE HUNDRED OF REIGATE 



BETCHWORTH 

 BUCKLAND 

 BURSTOW 

 CHARLWOOD 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



CHIPSTEAD 

 GATTON 

 HORLEY 

 LEIGH 



MERSTHAM 



NUTFIELD 



REIGATE 1 



This hundred was known as the hundred of Cherchefelle at the time of 

 the Domesday Survey and afterwards. The name Reigate occurs in 1199.* 

 In 1086 Buckland, Chipstead, Gatton, Merstham, Nutfield, and. Reigate 

 (Cherchefelle) were placed in this hundred, which also included Orde, which 

 has been identified with the parish of Worth in Sussex; 8 possibly, however, 

 it represents North and South Worth in 

 Merstham (see under that parish). Charl- 

 wood was probably included in Merstham, 

 of which manor it was a member (see 

 account of Charlwood). The chief manor 

 in Leigh (q.v.) appears, shortly after the 

 Survey, as a member of Ewell, and was 

 probably so regarded in 1086 also. Bur- 

 stow and Horley (q.v.) were in Wimble- 

 don and Banstead. Part of Betchworth 

 appears in Wotton Hundred,* but was in- 

 cluded in Reigate Hundred before 1279.' 



The hundred seems to have always 

 been a royal one.* A grant of the office 

 of bailiff of this hundred with that of 

 Tandridge was made in 1485 to Thomas 

 Body. 7 To a lay subsidy levied in 1546 

 the hundreds of Tandridge and Reigate 

 contributed together 420 los. 8</., of 

 which 2 35 5 s - 8</. was raised in Reigate Hundred. 8 A lease of the farm 

 of the two hundreds for twenty-one years was made in 1617 to Thomas 

 Hunt. 9 A Parliamentary Survey 10 made in 1651 shows that the certainty 

 money due from both hundreds annually amounted to 4 i^s. 6d., whilst 

 profits of court, amercements, and other perquisites were valued annually 

 at 8 13^. Afd. The courts leet for both hundreds were kept at Under- 



1 The parish of Newdigate, which is partly in this hundred, is treated under Copthorne Hundred, 



INDEX MAP 



TO THE 

 HUNDRED 



OF 

 REIGATE 



/. Surr. i, 297, note 4. 

 4 Assize R. 877, m. 56. 



7 Mat. for Hist, of Hen. WI (Rolls Ser.), i, 256. 

 ' Pat. I 5 Jas. I, pt. xxxi, no. 44. 



1 Ibid, i, 3160. 4 Ibid, i, 3210. 



Ibid. 878, m. 34. 



' Lay Subsidies, Surr. bdle. 185, no. zzo. 

 w Parl. Surv. Surr. no. 3. 



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