EFFINGHAM HUNDRED 



GREAT BOOKHAM 



The road (called Paternoster Lane in Mickleham) 

 which passes Bagden Farm * and leads to a ford in the 

 Mole in Sir Trevor Lawrence's grounds, is the probable 

 line of the great west and east road along the Downs, 

 sometimes now called the Pilgrims' Way. 



Bookham Grove, south-west of the church, is the 

 seat of Mr. Sydney C. Bristowe ; Old Dene of Mr. 

 C. E. Cuthell ; Millfield House of Mrs. Hansard ; 

 Merrycourt of Sir Stephen Mackenzie, M.D. Sole 

 Farm, on the west side of the village street, is a pic- 

 turesque old-fashioned gabled house. Miss Fanny 

 Burney, after her marriage with M. D'Arblay, lived 

 for a short time in a cottage at Bookham. 



The kennels of the Surrey Union Foxhounds, of 

 which Mr. F. G. Colman is master, are in Great 

 Bookham. 



Extensive open fields existed, and were inclosed by 

 an Act of 1 8 z i . The award is dated 1 9 March 1822.' 



An infants' school was built in 1830, and was 

 enlarged in 1882. A National school with residence 

 for the master was built in 1856 by Viscountess 

 Downe, the Hon. Lydia Dawnay, and the Hon. P. 

 Dawnay, in memory of William Henry, Viscount 

 Downe. 



Ranmore is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1 860 

 from the parishes of Great and Little Bookham, 

 EfEngham, Dorking, and Mickleham. It lies upon 

 the high ground of the chalk range, but extends into 

 the lower ground towards Dorking and Mickleham. 

 The church, St. Barnabas, is in Great Bookham. 



Near the church is a village dispensary and training 

 school for domestic servants. Ranmore Common is 

 a large open space on the brow of the hill. 



The schools (National) are private property of the 

 owner of Denbies and were built in 1858, an infants' 

 department being added in 1 874. 



The earliest alleged mention of 

 MANORS GRE4T BOOKH4M is in a charter 

 dated 675, by which Frithwald, Sub- 

 regulus of Surrey, and Bishop Erkenwald granted to 

 Chertsey Abbey twenty dwellings at ' Bocham cum 

 Effingham.' 4 The grant was confirmed by Offa in 

 787, by Athelstan in 933,* by Edgar in 967, and 

 by Edward the Confessor in 1062,' and in the 

 Domesday Survey the manor of ' Bocheham ' is in- 

 cluded in the possessions of the monastery. 9 In 1537 

 it was surrendered to the Crown by John, Abbot of 

 Chertsey,' with the rest of the monastic lands, and in 

 1550 was regrantedto Lord William Howard, 10 son of 

 the Duke of Norfolk, who settled it on his second son, 

 Sir William Howard," in whose line it remained until 

 1 80 1, when it was sold by Richard Howard, last 

 Earl of Effingham, to James Laurell." In 1811-12 

 James Laurell and his wife jointly conveyed the 

 manor to John Harrison Loveridge, 1 * probably in 

 trust for Holme Sumner, who in the Court Rolls 

 appears as lord of the manor until 1828. Within the 

 next year it was acquired by Louis Bazalgette, who 

 died in 1830. It was evidently bought from his 

 executors " by David Barclay, who was lord of the 



GREAT BOOKHAM CHURCH PROM THE SOUTH-WEST 



* Terrier of Bookham Glebe, 1638 in 

 registers. 



* Sir John Brunner'i Rel n 1903. 



4 Kemble, Cod, Difl. dccccclxxzviii ; 

 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 64,349. But thil 

 charter it doubtful. See in Chertsey. 



* Kemble, Cud. Difl. ccclxiii. 

 ' Ibid, dxxxii. 7 Ibid, dccciii. 



8 f.C.H. Surr. i, 3090. 

 ' Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. 

 VIII. 



> Pat. 4 Edw. VI, pt. i*. 



327 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclni, 

 no. 1 54 ; G.E.C. Comflete Pierage, iii, 

 3260. 



12 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 41 Geo. III. 



13 Ibid. Hil. 52 Geo. III. 

 S Eastwick. 



