A HISTORY OF SURREY 



No Inclosure Act is known, but a great deal of open 

 heath and down has been inclosed. 



From 1850 to 1890 the common rights of most 

 of the tenants of Banstead Manor in Leigh and 

 Horley, called IValda, i.e. the Weald, in the Survey 

 of 1325, were bought out by private arrangement. 



There are a considerable number of gentlemen's 

 houses. Court House is the residence of Mr. B. 

 A. Goad ; Banstead Hall of Mr. D. V. James ; The 

 Larches of Mr. H. Lambert, C.B. ; Tadworth Court 

 of Mr. C. D. Morton ; Banstead Place of Mr. 

 Justice Neville. 



There were two private schools in 17*5 in 

 which reading and writing were taught. In 1837 

 Lady Arden of Nork endowed a Church school at 

 Burgh Heath with 205 ; it was rebuilt in 1885, 

 and enlarged in 1901. In 1857 a school, now 

 County Council, was built in the village, and enlarged 

 in 1906. In 1874 a School Board was formed for 

 Banstead, Tadworth, and Kingswood, and in 1875 

 Tadworth and Kingswood School was opened by the 

 Board. A Wesleyan school was built at Burgh Heath 

 in 1880. The Kensington and Chelsea Pauper 

 Children's School, built in 1880, is in Banstead. It 

 is in a fine position, arranged in 23 separate Homes, 

 with chapel, swimming bath, workshop, laundry, 

 gymnasium, &c. The Boys' Surgical Home was 

 opened in 1895. There is a Church Institute, which 

 was opened in 1906. 



A great feature of Banstead is the London County 

 Lunatic Asylum on Banstead Downs, originally 

 opened in 1877. It now consists of nineteen blocks 

 of buildings, with a chapel, and houses for the 

 attendants, and will hold 2,240 patients. It is built 

 of white brick. 



There is a Baptist mission room in the village, 

 and a Baptist chapel at Tadworth. 



The earliest records of B4NSTE4D 

 MANORS refer to gifts of land there, the first 

 being a grant, in 680, from Caedwalla, 

 King of Wessex, to Bishop Wilfrid ; " the second, a 

 grant made by Frithwald, subregulus of Surrey, and 

 Bishop Erkenwald to Chertsey Monastery, in augmen- 

 tation of the lands given at the foundation of the abbey, 

 the lands mentioned in this second gift being 'xx 

 mansas apud Benesteda cum Suthmaresfelda,' ** of 

 which confirmation was afterwards made by King 

 Edgar." It does not appear, however, that the 

 monastery held land at Banstead in later times. 



Banstead Manor was held, prior to the Conquest, 

 by Alnod, very possibly indentical with 'Alnod Cild,' 

 who was one of the largest landowners in Surrey in 

 the time of King Edward." In 1086 Banstead, in 

 Wallington Hundred, was held by Richard of Odo, 

 Bishop of Payeux. 20 Among the appurtenances of the 

 manor was a house in Southwark worth 40^." Alnod, 



when he had held the manor, had had a demesne house 

 in London, which Adam son of Hubert held of 

 Odo.' 8 In the time of Henry I Tirel del Maniers 

 gave the church to the monastery of St. Mary 

 Overy, 89 but there is no other proof that he was lord 

 of the manor. It was held in 1169-70 by Nigel de 

 Mowbray, whose wife Mabel had received it from 

 her father as her marriage portion.* She seems to 

 have been the daughter of Roger, Earl of Clare ; it 

 is therefore possible that the Richard of 1086 was 

 the great Richard of Tonbridge himself.* 01 



William de Mowbray son of Nigel was one of the 

 barons who opposed King John in 1215; he was 

 among the twenty-five who were appointed executors 

 of the great charter, and as such was excommunicated 

 by the pope. He was afterwards taken prisoner at 

 the battle of Lincoln, but, by promising to give 

 Banstead to Hubert de Burgh, lord chief justice, he 

 redeemed his other lands before the general restora- 

 tion later in the year." 



In 1226-7, after William's 

 death, Nigel de Mowbray his 

 son quitclaimed all right in 

 the manor to Hubert." The 

 master and brethren of the 

 Knights Templars were given 

 seisin of the manor in 1233, 

 to hold as security for the debts 

 which Hubert de Burgh owed 

 them. 33 He seems, however, 

 to have recovered the manor, 

 as he died at Banstead in 

 1243,*' and, after the death of his widow Margaret, 

 his son John de Burgh held the manor, 84 receiving a 

 grant of free warren there in 1 260." 



In 1272 John de Burgh alienated Banstead without 

 royal licence to William de Appeltrefeld," who was 

 ordered to hold until the king's return to England. 38 

 The next year John de Burgh granted the manor 

 to the king and his heirs, with the exception of 

 lands to the value of loos, given to Anselm de 

 Gyse.* 9 Pending the completion of the conveyances 

 Appeltrefeld was allowed to hold,* but John de 

 Burgh finally quitclaimed his right in 1274.*' Appel- 

 trefeld later surrendered all claim in it, for which 

 remission the king pardoned him 1,000 marks, in 

 which he was bound in the King's Jewry." The 

 king seems to have visited the manor soon after he 

 acquired it. In 1276 the reeve of Banstead rendered 

 account of his expenses there, which included 

 67*. II d. for repairs in the hall, kitchen, and other 

 rooms ' against the coming of the king ' ; money 

 spent on tiling and carpentering and on the carriage 

 of materials was also accounted for, and 3 3/. 4^. was 

 spent in making glass windows for the hall.'* The 

 manor-house was probably close to Banstead Church. 



DE BURGH. Cults 



seven lozenges vair. 



** Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 81. 



38 Ibid, i, 64. But see under Chertsey 

 for the doubtful character of the early 

 charter*. ** Ibid, iii, 469. 



25 y.C.H. Surr. i, 282, note I. 



46 Ibid. 3O2, note 9, and p. 287. 



W Ibid. 285-6. Ibid. 302*. 



29 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 

 582. Rolls in the Kings Court (Pipe R. 

 Soc.), ziv, 42. This roll is, in places, 

 very illegible, but in view of Manning's 

 deeds and those concerning Southmcrfeld 

 and the Prior of Southwark (see rectory), 

 there seems no doubt that the places 



referred to in the roll (. . . feld and . . . 

 stud) are Southmerfield and Banstead, 

 particularly as they are stated to have 

 belonged to Tirel del Maniers and after to 

 Nigel de Mowbray. 



80 Manning and Bray, ut supra ; Fife R. 

 1 6 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), xv, 164. 



" Cott. MS. Cleo. Cot iii, foL 302. 



81 Ibid. Matt. Paris, Chron. Maj. 

 iii, 22; Diet. Nat. Biog.; Cal. of Close, 

 1231-4, p. 1 66. It may be noted that 

 he did not derive his name from Burgh 

 in this parish, nor did Burgh derive its 

 name from him. 



254 



88 Feet of F. Surr. East. 1 1 Hen. III. 

 88 Close, 17 Hen. Ill, m. 13. 

 4 Matt. Paris, Hist. Angl. (Rolls Ser.), 

 ii, 477 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 



85 Chan. Inq. p.m. 44 Hen. Ill, no. 14. 



86 Cal. of Chart. 1257-1300, p. 27. 



8 ? Akkrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com), i, 20. 



88 Ibid. 21. 



88 Cal. of Pat. 1272-81, p. 41. 



40 Cal. of Close, 1272-9, p. 64. 



41 Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 2 Edw. I. 

 43 Cal. of Close, 1272-9, p. 170. 



48 Mins. Accts. (Gen. Ser.), bdle. 

 1010, no. 8. 



