A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Camps ' on Walton Heath, but it is not obvious that 

 they were camps. Fortified inclosures against ban- 

 ditti or wild beasts, or both, might be nearer the 

 truth. They are worth comparison with the inclo- 

 sures round Ashtead Church and near Pachevesham, 

 Letherhead. Within the boundary of Walton parish 

 there is a well, now dry and mostly filled up, with no 

 modern house near it, which may belong to the same 

 period of settlement. 



No Inclosure Act or Award seems to be known, 

 but undoubtedly some inclosure of common fields and 

 waste has taken place. The names in the register 

 and churchwardens' accounts seem to point to holdings 

 of shots in common fields in the I7th and i8th cen- 

 turies, and the tithe map of 1839 shows common 

 fields, called North and West Common Fields, with 

 small holdings in them. The road to the common 

 fields was mended by the parish in 1835. 



Frith Farm, a 17th-century house with a park, is 

 the seat of Mr. W. Stebbing. Street Farm is another 

 I yth-century house. Of other large properties may 

 be mentioned Walton Lodge (Mr. H. J. Broadbent), 

 Hurst (Mr. H. C. Lyall), Feeble Combe (Mr. E. J. 

 Coles), and Lovelands (Hon. H. S. Littleton). 



There was a village shepherd still in 1792.* 



There is a Congregational mission room in the 

 village. 



The schools (National) were built in 1878, and 

 enlarged in 1898. 



The manor of W4LTON-ON-THE- 

 MANOR HILL (Waleton, Wauton, xi-xvi cent.) 

 was held in 1086 by Richard de Ton- 

 bridge,* and descended from him to the Earls of 

 Gloucester and Hertford. At the death of the last 

 Gilbert de Clare, his estates were divided among his 

 sisters and co-heiresses. Walton-on-the-Hill passed to 

 Hugh le Despenser, who had married Eleanor the 



CLARE. Or thru 

 cheveront gules. 



DF SPENSER. Quar- 

 terly argent and gules t 

 the gules fretty or t tuith 

 a bend table over all. 



earl's sister. Hugh, their son, died seised of Walton in 

 1 349.' His descendant, Thomas le Despenser, created 

 Earl of Gloucester by Richard II, was murdered and 

 attainted in 1400, when, his land being confis- 

 cated to the Crown, this manor seems to have passed 

 to the Earls of Stafford, the descendants of Margaret, 



sister of Gilbert de Clare, 8 who were still the overlords 

 in 1403.' By 1437, however, the manor was said to 

 be held of the Crown. 



The manor was held under Richard in 1086 by a 

 certain John, 10 who seems to have been the ancestor 

 or predecessor of the Dammartin family. (See Buck- 

 land in Reigate Hundred.) 11 John de Walton, who 

 married Alice daughter of Odo de Dammartin," 

 is said to have founded the church of Walton, 11 and in 

 1268 free warren in Betchworth, Buckland, and 

 Walton was granted to John de Walton, probably 

 his son, and his heirs. 1 ' Ten years later he was called 

 upon to show by what right he claimed this privi- 

 lege. 14 In 1293-4 John de Walton senior conveyed 

 the manor to John de Lovetot senior, who died 

 seised of it shortly after, and was succeeded by his 

 son and heir, also John." 



The next tenant under the De Clares was John 

 Drokensford, Bishop of Bath and Wells. He had a 

 grant of free warren here in 1 307." He was tenant 

 of the Gilbert de Clare who fell at Bannockburn in 

 1314," and the inquisition taken on his lands shows 

 him dying in possession in I33O. 19 



What next occurred in the descent is extremely 

 difficult to trace. John de Braose, a minor, and the 

 ward of John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey," was heir 

 to the manor of Walton at the death of the latter in 

 1 347." This John was half-witted," and after the 

 Earl's death Mary, Countess Marshal, the widow of 

 John's great-grandfather Sir William de Braose, who 

 had since married Thomas of Brotherton, Duke of 

 Norfolk, 13 occupied the manor for four years, and later 

 it was held by Sir Thomas de Braose, apparently, how- 

 ever, as guardian, and only for the life of his witless 

 cousin John. 14 After this the Braoses disappear, and 

 the next lord of the manor was Richard, Earl of 

 Arundel, nephew and heir to John de Warenne, Earl 

 of Surrey, whose only sister Alice married Edmund, 

 Earl of Arundel." Richard's son John succeeded him, 

 and settled one-third of the manors of Buckland, West 

 Betchworth, and Walton, upon his wife Eleanor. She 

 married, secondly, Sir Reginald Cobham, who died in 

 1403 seised of these estates in his wife's right. Eleanor 

 survived him two years. 1 * Her second son William 

 appears to have had the remaining two-thirds of 

 Walton Manor, with the reversion of his mother's 

 dower ; for in 1401, he having lately died, all his 

 share in Walton was granted to his next brother 

 Richard and his wife Alice for life, which grant was 

 confirmed and renewed at several subsequent dates." 

 Alice outlived her husband over twelve years, and 

 held the manor until her death in 1437, when it 

 reverted to the king. 18 



In the spring of that year Walton was granted in 

 lease by Henry VI to Ralph Rocheford to hold for 

 seven years, but in the following November the grant 

 was changed to one for life, with remainder, on the 



5 Overseers* Accts. 

 V.CJi. Surr. i, 316. 



I Vide Chipstead. Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 21 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 58 ; 13 

 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 169. 



8 Vide Chipstead. 



9 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 34. 

 1 V.C.H.Surr. i, 316. 



II He held also Woldingham in Tand- 

 r!dge Hundred. 



" See Buckland. 



18 Inscription in Walton Church. 



" Col. of Chart. R. 1157-1300, p. 88. 



Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 737, 



747- 



16 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 22 Edw. 1 5 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. I, no. 33. 



V Chart. R. 35 Edw. I, no. 66. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68. 



Ibid. 3 Edw. Ill, no. 41. 



*> Chan. Inq. p.m. zi Edw. HI (ist 

 nos.), no. 58 ; 23 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), 

 no. 169. 



n Ibid. 21 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 

 58. 



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



316 



77 ; Index Winton Epis. Reg. Egerton 

 MS. 2031-4, iii, foL 37. 



G.E.C. Peerage, Norfolk ; Manning 

 and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 77. 



w Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 49. 



u Ibid. 21 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 58 5 

 Berry, Gen. Peerage, 88. 



86 Nichols, To fog. etGen, ii, 318 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 34. 



*> Berry, Gen. Peerage, 88 ; Cat. Pat. 

 1399-1401, p. 347 ; 1422-9, p. 205. 



B Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Hen. VI, no. 27. 



