WOKING HUNDRED 



STOKE JUXTA 

 GUILDFORD 



STOKE JUXTA GUILDFORD 



Stochae (xi cent.) ; Stok (xiii cent.). 



Stoke is a parish lying across the River Wey just 

 below Guildford. It is bounded on the west and 

 north by Worplesdon, on the east by Merrow, on 

 the south by St. Martha's, Shalford, and the Guild- 

 ford parishes. It measures 3 miles from north-west 

 to south-east, and i miles from south-west to north- 

 east. The total area of the whole parish is 2,301 

 acres. It extends from the ridge of the chalk down 

 east of Guildford across the Thanet and Woolwich 

 beds, the London Clay, and the sand and alluvium of 

 the Wey Valley. It is intersected by the river, and 

 by the railways and roads which enter Guildford 

 from the north and east. The Cobham and Guild- 

 ford line, with a station in the London Road, Guild- 

 ford, in Stoke parish, was opened in 1885. Stoke is 

 now largely a town or suburban parish, or parishes, for 

 by the Local Government Act of 1 894 it was divided 

 into two parishes. Stoke Within is part of the 

 borough of Guildford, and contains 252 acres. It 

 comprises the southern part of the old parish. Stoke 

 next Guildford is the more outlying suburban and 

 country part of the parishes, and contains 2,049 

 acres. No Inclosure Act is known, but Stoke Fields, 

 now built over, suggest common fields by their name. 



Neolithic implements have been found in the 

 parish. 



Wood Bridge is a brick bridge on an old line of 

 road where a bridge has long existed. It was re- 

 paired by the neighbourhood and not by the lord of 

 the manor." It is now a county bridge and was rebuilt 

 in brick in 1847-8.' When the property of Stoke 

 Park and Stoke Mills was purchased by Mr. Aldersey in 

 1780 the road ran between his house and the east 

 end of Stoke Church, and passed the river by a ford 

 with a long narrow wooden bridge by the side of it 

 for use in flood time. He diverted the road to the 

 west end of the church, where it now is, and built 

 Stoke Bridge of brick. 



On the site of Stoughton Manor House are the 

 remains of the old moat. Stoke Park is now the seat 

 of Mrs. Budgett. It is not the site of the old manor- 

 house ; this was at Warren Farm on the chalk down 

 cast of Guildford, where the courts used to be held. 

 The name Stoke Park was not used in 1762,* when 

 the place was called the Paddocks. Mr. Dyson, the 

 owner, laid out the park about that time. Stoke Hill 

 was the seat of the late Rev. F. Paynter ; Woodbridge 

 Park is the seat of Mrs. Blount. Mrs. Charlotte 

 Smith, who died at Elstead in 1806, and was well 

 known formerly as a poetess and writer, was a native 

 of Stoke, and has a monument in the church. 



Stoke Church Institute in the Foxenden Road was 

 opened in 1895. There is a Roman Catholic chapel 

 (St. Joseph's) in Chertsey Street, where also is a 



Primitive Methodist chapel. There is a Baptist chapel 

 in Martyr Road, and one in Commercial Road. 



Stoughton is an ecclesiastical parish formed from 

 Stoke in 1 89 3. There is a Wesleyan chapel founded 

 in 1895. The cemetery in Stoughton was purchased 

 and laid out in 1880-2. It comprises 8 acres. 



Stoughton Barracks are the de'pbt of Regimental 

 District No. 2, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions of 

 the Royal West Surrey. Guildford Union Work- 

 house is in Stoke Within. 



Stoke (Church) School was built in 1856 and en- 

 larged in 1895. Sandfield School (Provided) was 

 opened in 1901. Stoke Hill School (Church) was built 

 in 1870, Stoughton School (Provided) in 1885, and 

 St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic) in 1885. 



At the time of Domesday STOKE 

 MANORS formed part of the royal demesne.' It 

 continued to be a Crown possession until 

 the time of King John, who 

 granted it to the Bishop of 

 London and his church of St. 

 Paul. 5 By 1222, however, 

 the rights of St. Paul's in Stoke 

 had apparently ceased to exist, 

 since there is no mention of 

 the manor in the Domesday of 

 St. Paul's drawn up about that 

 date. 6 The Bishops of Lon- 

 don continued to be the lords 

 of the manor of Stoke ' until 

 the 1 6th century, when Bishop 

 John Aylmer released it to 

 Queen Elizabeth. 8 It seems 

 to have been granted shortly afterwards to Thomas 

 Vyncent of Stoke D'Abernon, who in 1587 conveyed 

 it to Laurence Stoughton,' lord of the manor ol 

 Stoughton in Stoke, q.v. 



The manor of STOUGHTON in Stoke seems to 

 have originated in land called ' Stocton" which was 

 part of the manor of Stoke, and was afforested under 

 Richard I." King John granted it with Stoke to the 

 Bishop of London," and it was continuously held as 

 of that manor." 



The first record of immediate lords occurs in 

 1 345, when Henry de Stoughton settled the manor on 

 himself and his wife Joan and their heirs. 13 In 1415 

 Walter Stoughton, probably son of Henry, died 

 seised of the manor, leaving a son Thomas, then 

 twenty years of age, to succeed him. 14 



The manor apparently passed through Gilbert son 

 of Thomas 15 to Laurence Stoughton, 18 who held it 

 in the 1 6th century. 17 He died in 1571, leaving a 

 son Thomas, 18 who survived him only five years. 19 

 The manor had in 1575 been settled in tail male on 

 Laurence son of Thomas on his marriage with Rose 



Six or LONDON. 

 Gules Pwo s'wordl of St. 

 Paul crossed having hilts 

 and fomeli or. 



1 Pleat of the Manor, East. 5 Ric. II, 

 R. 14. 



Diary of Mr. J. More-Molyneux, J.P. 



Rocque's Map. * y.C.H.Surr. i, 296.1. 

 6 Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), 147 ; 



Cart. Antiq. MM, 18} A, II ; A, 6 ; 

 AA,47;SS, 13. 



W. H. Halt, Dora, of St. Paul, i et scq. 



1 Cal.Cloie, 1232, p. 40 ; 1348, p. 353 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 32 Edw. I, no. 90. 



8 Feet of F. Div. Co. Eat. 33 Eliz. 



9 Ibid. SUIT. Trin. 29 Eliz. 



10 Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.) ii, 56. 

 U Ibid. 



la Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no. 1 1 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), civ, 49. 



371 



u Feet of F. Surr. 19 Edw. Ill, no. 20. 

 14 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no. n. 

 " Publ. Harl. Soc. xliii, 85. 

 11 Ibid. ; ton of Gilbert. 

 l ~ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxxvii, 

 84. 



" Harl. Soc. Pull, xliii, 86. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxix, 81. 



