WOKING HUNDRED SEND WITH RIPLEY 



The first book of registers contains mixed entries 

 1574 to 1600, the second is a transcribed copy of 

 this book, but contains baptisms to 1655, burials to 

 1642, and marriages to 1641. There are also further 

 burial entries 1650 to 1664 ; the third book contains 

 mixed entries 1653 to 1733, the fourth baptisms and 

 burials 1733 to 1812, the fifth marriages 1733 to 

 1754, and the sixth marriages 1754 to 1812. 



The chapel of Pirbright was in 

 ADyOWSON early times attached to the church of 

 Woking, and was granted by Peter of 

 Pirbright to the Prior of Newark in 1240." It was 

 still part of the priory possessions in 1535, and was 

 then worth 6 8/. 4^." It was served separately 

 from Woking, and after the Dissolution was in all 

 respects a parish served by a perpetual curate. 



In 1 640 the family of Stoughton were holding the 



advowson ; " in 1 694 they released it to George 

 Martin," in whose descendants it remained till 1779, 

 when George Tate, second husband of the widow of 

 Martin's grandson, presented. It was probably bought 

 by the Halseys with the manor, they being now patrons. 

 In Pirbright were two plots of land called Torch 

 Plot and Lamp Plot, let at I id. and 8</. a year re- 

 spectively for lights in the church. They do not 

 appear among lands devoted to such uses in Surrey in 

 the certificates of Edward VI. They were granted 

 by Elizabeth to John Dudley and John Ascough, 

 17 May 1575. 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 



CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. There is a 



charity of about 6, left by Mr. 



George Poulton of Pirbright, which is distributed in 



clothing to old persons. 



SEND WITH RIPLEY 



Sande (xi cent.) ; Sandes and Saundes (xiii cent.) ; 

 Sende (xiv cent.). 



Send is a parish with two villages, Send lying 

 about 3 miles and Ripley about 5 miles north-east 

 of Guildford. It is bounded by Woking on the 

 north-west, Pyrford to the north, Ockham to the 

 north-east, West Horsley on the east, the two Clandons 

 and Merrow on the south, and Worplesdon on the 

 south-west. It measures 3$ miles from east to west, 

 and about 4 miles north to south in the widest part. 

 It contains 5,139 acres. Ripley and the north of the 

 parish are on the sand and gravel of the Wey Valley, 

 Send on a patch of Bagshot Sand ; the southern part of 

 the parish is on the London Clay. The River Wey 

 skirts the western side of the parish, and in part 

 bounds it. The road from London to Guildford runs 

 through it, and the London and South-Western 

 Railway line by Cobham to Guildford cuts the ex- 

 treme south of the parish. There are brickfields on the 

 London Clay. Ripley Green is a well-known open 

 space in the parish. 



The neighbourhood of Send has yielded several 

 neolithic flints, some of which are in the Archaeological 

 Society's Museum at Guildford. Salmon says that 

 Roman coins were found there.' The site of Newark 

 Priory is just within the border of the parish. It had 

 evidently occupied another site, also possibly in the 

 parish, but was rebuilt on a new site and called De 

 Novo Loco, Newark, Newstead, or New Place. The 

 foundation was anterior to the benefaction by Ruald 

 de Calva and his wife Beatrice de Sandes, under 

 Richard I, and the Winchester Registers ' say that it 

 was founded by a Bishop of Winchester. Bishop 

 Godfrey de Lucy, who died in 1204, gave a grant of 

 land to the house under the name of Aldbury. 

 Andrew Bukerel, son of Andrew, citizen of London, 

 mayor 1231-7, or the son of the mayor, gave a grant 

 to the house De Novo Loco. 1 The site and remains 

 of the Priory buildings have lately been placed under 

 the protection of the Ancient Monuments Acts. 



The parish was the scene of a nearly forgotten 

 skirmish. On 14 June 1497 the Cornish rebels 



marching upon Kent from the west had reached 

 Guildford, and had a skirmish with the outposts of 

 the royal troops on the road from Guildford to 

 London. The latter evidently fell back, for they had 

 lost touch of the rebels on the 1 6th and were looking 

 for them on the Guildford road again near Kingston 

 when they were actually on the border of Kent. 4 

 Old maps mark the place where the road crosses the 

 stream which joins the Wey near Send as St. Thomas's 

 Waterings, a name which occurs in the London 

 suburbs. It is now not used, but its occurrence here 

 shows that it had no connexion with pilgrimages to 

 St. Thomas's shrine. 



By the Inclosure Act for Send and Ripley, passed 

 in 1803, 600 acres of common and common fields 

 were inclosed. 5 



There is a Congregational chapel at Cartbridge, 

 built in 1875. 



Send Grove is the property of and occupied by the 

 Misses Onslow. General Evelyn, a son of Sir John 

 Evelyn of Wotton, resided at this house, and he laid 

 out the grounds. On his death, in 1783, it was 

 bought by Admiral Sir Francis Drake, second in 

 command to Rodney in his victory of 1782 over De 

 Grasse. Woodhill is the seat of the Dowager Countess 

 of Wharncliffe. 



Ripley was formerly a chapelry of Send. There 

 are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels there. Earl 

 Ligonier, the famous Huguenot refugee and military 

 commander, was Baron Ripley. 



Dunsborough House is the seat of Mr. G. H. 

 Maitland-King ; Ripley Court of Mr. R. M. Pease ; 

 Ripley House of Captain Herbert D. Terry, Inspector 

 of Constabulary for England and Wales. 



Ripley (National) School was built in 1847 and 

 enlarged in 1898. Send (National) School was built 

 in 1834 and enlarged in 1892. 



The early history of SEND begins 



MANORS with the loth century, when Athelstan 



sold lands which he held at Send to the 



Archbishop of Canterbury. 6 But at the time of 



Domesday the tenant in chief was Alured de Merle- 



Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 24 Hen. III. 

 Valar Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 33. 

 Feet of F. Surr. Mich, i 5 Chas. I. 

 Ibid. Mich. 6 Will, and Mary. 



"Salmon, Antiq.ofSurr. 142. 

 s Winton Epi. Reg. Woodlock, fol. 



141.'-, 1720. 



8 Jnspeximus of 14 Edw. II, Chart. 26. 



365 



*r.C.H.Surr. i, 366. 



In the Com. Ret. (Bd. of Agric.). 



' Birch, Cart. Sax. 1063. 



