REIGATE HUNDRED 



CHARLWOOD 



estate of Mr. Young at Stanhill, which the finders 

 regarded as an ancient font, but which was perhaps a 

 stone mortar. 



Manning and Bray * mention the tradition that the 

 Timberham Bridge was formerly known as Killman- 

 bridge because of a slaughter of the Danes there. It 

 does not appear, however, that there is any docu- 

 mentary evidence for the improbable name ' Killman- 

 bridge,' and it is unlikely that Charlwood was inhabited 

 at the time of Danish invasions. It is not mentioned 

 in Domesday, and was probably a forest district of the 

 manor of Merstham, which to the present day reaches 

 into the parish. 



The Sanders or Sander family of Charlwood were, 

 if not Catholic recusants themselves, 

 closely allied by marriage and sympa- 

 thies with recusants. Nicholas Sander 

 the famous controversialist was of a 

 younger branch of the family, and his 

 sister, who married John Pitts of Ox- 

 fordshire, was mother of John Pitsaeus, 

 Dean of Liverdun in Lorraine and 

 Bishop of Verdun. The squire's family 

 evidently preserved the pre-Reformation 

 inscription on the church (see church). 



Another curious trace of ancient man- 

 ners is that Charlwood, with lands in 

 Leigh and Newdigate, was conveyed in 

 the first year of Edward VI ' with the 

 bondsmen and their families.' * 



Charlwood Place, formerly the seat of 

 the Sanders family, is a moated house. 

 At Charlwood House there was appa- 

 rently a moat, part of which only remains. 



In the outlying part of Charlwood 

 between Leigh and Horley parishes, east 

 of Barnland Farm and west of the Mole, 

 between the Mole and the Brighton 

 road, there are the remains of a moated 

 inclosure. 



Charlwood was in the Wealden iron 

 district, though none of the principal 

 forges and furnaces named seem to be 

 in it.* But it was one of the iron- 

 working parishes exempted from the Act 

 of I Elizabeth against cutting timber of 

 a certain size. 



Of late years a completely new fea- 

 ture has been brought into the parish 

 by the making of the Gatwick Race 

 Course, which was opened in 1891, 

 after the closing of the old Croydon 

 Race Course at Woodside. 



Some common land was inclosed, according to 

 Brayley, 7 in I 844, but the chief inclosure award was 

 dated 5 February 1846, under the General Inclosure 

 Act of 1 843." Other waste was inclosed 12 January 

 1 854,' when Shellwood Manor in Leigh was inclosed, 

 Including waste in Betchworth, Charlwood, Horley, 

 Leigh, and Newdigate. There was a common mea- 

 dow, but common arable fields are not mentioned. 



There are both Baptist and Congregational chapels 

 at Charlwood. 



Farmfield is a Home for female inebriates acquired 

 by the London County Council. 



The Cottage Hospital opened in 1873 is at present 

 closed. 



Charlwood Boys' School was built in 1840. 

 Charlwood Girls' and Infants' School was built in 

 1852 and enlarged in 1893. 



Lowfield Heath School was built in 1868. 



Charlwood House is the seat of Mt. G. H. 

 Beckhuson ; Russ Hill of Mr. H. N. Corsellis, part of 

 whose house is of the middle of the I yth century ; 

 Stanhill Court belongs to Mr. A. F. Hepburn ; 

 Gatwick Manor House is the seat of Mr. E. G. 

 MacAndrew ; Norwood Hill House of Major Mac- 

 Micking ; Ricketswood of Sir A. M. Rendel, K.C.I.E.; 

 Norwood Hill of Mr. C. F. Wakefield ; Charlwood 



CHARLWOOD CHURCH FROM THE NORTH-EAST 



Park of Mr. Herbert Musker. The Misses Sanders 

 of Hookwood House belong to the old Sanders family 

 of Charlwood. Charlwood Place itself is now a farm- 

 house. 



Lowfield Heath was a large common about 

 2 miles south-east of Charlwood village, on the 

 Sussex border, inclosed in 1846. As several houses 

 lay about it at some distance from the church 

 a chapel of ease, St. Michael and All Angels, was 

 built in 1868. It is of brick with stone dressings, 

 a tower and spire, in the French 1 3th-century 

 style. 



4 Hiit. ofSurr. ii, 187. 



' Deed formerly in possession of Duke 



of Norfolk, copied by the Rev. T. 

 O'Fflahertie of Capel. 



V.C.H. Surr. ii, 219, etc. 



' Hiit. of Surr. iv, 267. 



Blue Bk. Inel. Awardi. 



Ibid. 



