A HISTORY OF SURREY 



WANBOROUGH 



Weneberge (xi cent.) ; Waneberg (xii-xiii cent.) ; 

 Wamberge (xiii cent.); Wanbergh (xiv cent.) ; Wan- 

 borowe (xvii cent.). 



Wanborough is a small parish, 4 miles west of 

 Guildford, containing 1,823 acres an( ^ measuring about 

 3 miles from east to west and one from north to 

 south. It is bounded on the north by Ash and 

 Worplesdon, on the east by Compton, on the south 

 by Compton and Puttenham, on the south-west and 

 west by Scale. It throws out a tongue, however, 

 between Compton and Puttenham which just touches 

 Godalming. The South Eastern Railway, Redhill and 

 Reading line, runs through it, with a station opened in 

 1 849. It is traversed by the high road from Guildford 

 to Farnham along the Hog's Back, the via regia of early 

 deeds and Hundred Rolls. The greater part of the 

 parish is on the chalk of the Hog's Back, but it reaches 

 the sand south of the ridge, where Puttenham 

 Heath is partly in Wanborough, and a further distance 

 north on to the London Clay. The small hamlet of 

 Wanborough lies on the north side of the Hog's Back. 

 It is an exception to the almost universal rule of the 

 church and village lying south of the chalk hills with 

 a parish reaching over the chalk or on to it north- 

 wards. The village and church are to the north, as 

 is most of the parish. It is doubtful whether it is an 

 ancient parish. It was perhaps a chapelry of Putten- 

 ham, though in a different hundred (but for this 

 compare Ash and Frimley). 



Neolithic flint implements were found in 1870 

 near the church, and others at various times and 

 places. A palaeolithic ovate implement is in the 

 Charterhouse Museum and a small bronze palstave in 

 the Archaeological Society's Museum, Guildford. 



WANBOROUGH was in the early 

 M4NOR stages of its history held as two manors 



by two brothers, 

 Swegen and Leofwine, possibly 

 Harold's brothers ; after the 

 Conquest, however, these two 

 manors were united in the pos- 

 session of Geoffrey de Mande- 

 ville. 1 Probably the overlord- 

 ship of the manor remained 

 with the Mandevilles, and 

 passed with the earldom of 

 Essex from their family to the 

 de Bohuns,* for Humphrey, 

 Earl of Hereford and Essex, 

 held four knights' fees in 



Wanborough, Clapham, and Carshalton in 1372, 

 and the connexion still existed under Henry IV. 5 

 Geoffrey son of Eustace, Count of Boulogne, married 



BOHUN. Axure a bind 

 argint between eotitet and 

 lix lioneeh or. 



a daughter of Geoffrey de Mandeville. He received 

 with her the Mandeville land at Carshalton,* and his 

 grandson Faramus of Boulogne * appears as sub-tenant 

 of the Mandeville land at Wanborough also, for in or 

 about 1 1 30, just after the foundation of Waverley 

 Abbey, he sold it, with the permission of his over- 

 lord, to the abbey, for the sum of one hundred marks.' 

 This sale was some years later ratified by Pope Eugenius 

 III. 7 In 1279 the abbey's possessions in Wanborough 

 were increased by the gift of a capital messuage with 

 appurtenances from William de Abbecroft. 8 



In 1 346 the Abbot of Waverley claimed to have 

 view of frankpledge in his manor of Wanborough by 

 right of immemorial custom without charter ; and 

 this claim obtained recognition from the king's 

 treasurer and chamberlain.' 



At the dispersion of the abbey lands in 1536, the 

 major portion of them, including Wanborongh Manor, 

 was assigned to Sir William Fitz William, afterwards 

 Earl of Southampton. 10 At his death in 1542 the 

 manor passed to his half-brother, Sir Anthony 

 Browne," in whose family it remained for some sixty 

 years. His grandson, the second Viscount Montagu, 

 demised the manor to a certain Richard Amye " for 

 a term of twenty-one years from Michaelmas 1603 ; 

 but before the expiration of the lease the ownership 

 of the manor had been transferred to John Murray, 

 keeper of the privy purse to King James I," who 

 created him Earl of Annandale. In 162; he mort- 

 gaged the manor to Thomas Bennett for the sum of 

 4,200," and after his death his son James sold it to 

 his cousin James Maxwell, 15 who a few years later 

 became Earl of Dirletoun." His widow Elizabeth 

 survived him for some years, keeping the manor in 

 her possession." At her death it passed under the 

 terms of her husband's will to their daughter Eliza- 

 beth, wife of the second Duke of Hamilton." The 

 Duchess took as her second husband Thomas Dal- 

 mahoy," to whom she bequeathed Wanborough in 

 trust to sell." He conveyed it to Mrs. Elizabeth Col- 

 wall,' 1 from whom it passed in due course to her grand- 

 son Daniel Colwall." Daniel in his will devised it 

 to his half-brothers, Arthur and Richard Onslow, 

 sons of Foot Onslow." The manor was shortly after- 

 wards sold to Thomas Onslow," ancestor of the 

 present Earl of Onslow, who is lord of the manor. 



Shortly before the Dissolution the monks of 

 Waverley obtained the privilege of holding an 

 annual fair with court of pie powder on the feast of 

 St. Bartholomew, in whose honour the church is 

 dedicated." The manor house, a fine old gabled 

 house near the church, is now the seat of Sir Algernon 

 West, G.C.B. 



1 V.C.H. Surr. i, 324*. 

 | " G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



8 Ech. Inq. p.m. file 146 (51), m. 20. 

 ' Note alo Chan. Inq. p.m. 46 Edw. Ill 

 (ist m is.), no. 10. 



*r.C.H.Surr. i, 314. 



6 See Genealogist (New Ser.), xii, 145- 

 51, article by Mr. J. H. Round. 



6 Dugdale, Monastieon, v, 342. 



"Lansd. Chart. 27. 



8 Annalei Man. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 392. 



'Cat. of Pat. 1345-6, p. 220. 



10 L. and P. Hen. yill, xi, 88. 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), but, 29. 



M Chan. Proc.Jas. I, m. xxii, 24. Richard 

 Amye was a parishioner in 1600. A 

 daughter of a Henry Amye was buried at 

 Wanborough in 1630, and a John Amye in 

 1634. 



"Ibid. ; see also Add. MSS. 6167. 



Com. Pleas Recov. R. Hil. 22 Ja. I 

 m. ii. 



15 Close, 1 8 Chas. I, pt. xviii, no. 20. 



16 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 

 "Add. MS. 6167. 

 "Ibid. 



374 



19 Ibid.; see also G.E.C. Complete Peerage 



"Add. MS. 6167. 



"Ibid. M Ibid. "Ibid. 



*"Ibid. This part of the history of 

 Wanborough was added to Symmes's 

 Collections (Add. MSS. 6167) after his 

 death, but since the MS. was in the 

 possession of the Onslow family until 

 the beginning of the igth century, it 

 eems reasonable to suppose that had 

 these facts been incorrect the Onslows 

 would have taken steps to rectify them. 



"Chart. R. 207, m. 8, no. 16. 



