EFFINGHAM HUNDRED EFFINGHAM 



common fines. At which said Court at Michaelmas all Constables and 

 Tithingmen for ye yeare past are discharged and others sworn for ye perform- 

 ance of their severall offices for ye ensuing year.' At the said Michaelmas 

 Court the constables or tithingmen were to deliver to the lord all dues from 

 their townships or tithings. The jurors further declared that they could not 

 find that there was ever held any three weeks' court for these hundreds, though 

 they believed that the lord might hold one if he pleased ' 



EFFINGHAM 



Fingcham, Epingeham (zi cent.). 



Effingham is 3$ miles south-south-west from Lether- 

 head, 8 miles north-east from Guildford, upon the road 

 between the two places, the village being fairly compactly 

 placed about the road and a cross road which runs from 

 over the downs northward. The parish is bounded on 

 the north by East Horsley and Cobham, on the east by 

 Little Bookham, on the south by Wotton and Abinger, 

 on the west by East Horsley. It measures quite 

 4 miles from north to south and one from east to west. 

 It contains 3,183 acres. 



The southern limit of the parish is on the summit of 

 the chalk range, which is here extensively covered with 

 beds of clay and gravel. It reaches over the northern 

 face of the chalk down, across the Thanet and Wool- 

 wich Beds, down on to the London Clay. The church 

 and village were on the beds between the chalk and 

 the clay, but the houses have spread upwards on to 

 the former. The Guildford and Epsom road, and 

 the Guildford and Letherhead Railway traverse the 

 parish. 



Neolithic implements have been found. On the 

 chalk were several dene holes, and a round barrow is 

 recorded near the road from Guildford, 1 but these seem 

 to have disappeared except for depressions which may 

 mark filled-in dene holes. Manning and Bray record 

 the discovery of a small camp on the downs near Mare 

 House, to the left of the road from Guildford to 

 Dorking, that is on White Downs. The ground has 

 since been cultivated. Lord William Howard, who 

 had property here from the spoils of Chertsey Abbey, 

 resided near at hand in Bookham, and was created 

 Lord Howard of Effingham. The most interesting 

 side of the place, however, historically, is in connexion 

 with the social history of England. Little more than 

 one hundred years ago Effingham was still an open 

 parish almost entirely, such as used to be called 

 ' champion.' Its geographical position is fairly typical 

 of the whole group along the northern side of the 

 chalk range : an elongated parish, with its open fields 

 and waste on the chalk, its settlement, church, and closes 

 on the comparatively dry soil just below the chalk, its 

 waste again on the clay beyond. 



There was an Inclosure Act in 1800,* and another 

 in 1802,* inclosing the wastes and common fields of 

 Byfleet Manor in Effingham parish, and wastes of 



Aug. Off. ParL Surv. SUIT. (2). 



1 Manning and Bray, Hist, and Anti/f, 

 tfSurr. ii, 708. 



1 39-40 Geo. Ill, cap. 87. 



42 Geo. Ill, cap. 76. 



* Tithe Commutation Ret. (Bd. of Agric.). 



* Sir John Brunner'i Return, 1903. 



Effingham East Court respectively. There was a further 

 inclosure in 1814,' and another in 1815.* 



In Lee Wood, towards the northern end of the 

 parish, on the clay, are the remains of a wet moat, in- 

 closing a square of 60 or 70 yds. 



Effingham Hill, built by General de Lancey on the 

 estate of Tib Farm, is the residence of Mr. Caesar 

 Czarnikow. It took the place of the manor-house of 

 Effingham East Court. Effingham Lodge is the resi- 

 dence of Mr. G. Pauling ; Dunley Hill of Mr. C. J. 

 Allen. Opposite the Plough Inn is an old house called 

 Widdington ; it has a large projecting brick porch of 

 about 1600 to 1620. The pilasters of brick on each 

 side of the doorway resemble those on Slyfield House. 



There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1854. A 

 national school was built in 1857. 



The manor of EFFINGHAM EAST 

 MANORS COURT was held at the time of the 

 Domesday Survey, of Richard de Ton- 

 bridge, Lord of Clare, 6 by Oswold, who also held the 

 manor of La Leigh,' but it appears to have been 

 acquired very shortly after by the Dammartin family. 

 In 1166 William de Dammartin was holding n-J 

 knights' fees in Surrey of the honour of Clare, 8 and in 

 12301 the manor of Effingham was confirmed to 

 Margery widow of Odo de Dammartin, the founder 

 and benefactor of Sandridge Priory and son of William 

 de Dammartin/ as dower, by Alice her daughter and 

 Roger de Clare husband of Alice. 10 In 1231 Margery 

 was summoned to answer a charge of waste and 

 alienation in this estate, preferred by Alice and Roger, 

 when Margery declared that the heronry had been 

 destroyed by her first husband Odo, and that the 

 alienation had been made by her second husband 

 Geoffrey de Say, from whom she was divorced, but 

 that no proof w is forthcoming that waste had been 

 made by her during her widowhood, and consequently 

 no case could be proved against her." Alice appears 

 to have been holding this manor for a knight's fee 

 shortly after, and in 1248 conveyed it to Thomas de 

 Warblington. 11 Shortly afterwards Richard de Clare, 

 the overlord, took the manor into his own hands," 

 and between 1250 and 1260 regranted it to Sir 

 Nicholas de Leukenore," keeper of the wardrobe to 

 Henry III, 15 to hold with the manor of Chipstead by 

 the service of two knights' fees. In 1279 William 



i. Sur-r. i, 320*. 



1 Ibid. 



8 Kid Bk. o/Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 405. 



' Dugdale, Man. vi, 604, 



10 Feet of F. Div. Co. 15 & 16 Hen. 

 Ill, no. 30. Alice was formerly married 

 to John de Wauton. 



321 



11 Maitland, Sracnn't Note St. 574. 

 u Feet of F. Surr. 32 Hen. Ill, no. 

 50. 



"Plae. dt Quo W*rr. (Rec. Com.), 



743- 



" Add. Chart 20039. 



15 Cal. Clou, 1272-9, p. 90. 



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