A HISTORY OF SURREY 



In the chancel is a brass inscription to Sir Edward 

 Zouch who died in 1634 ; it has a long eulogistic 

 epitaph in Latin ; also a mural monument to Sir John 

 Lloyd, bart., who died in 1663. There are several later 

 monuments. 



There are six bells : the treble, second, third and 

 fifth were cast by William Eldridge 1684, the fourth 

 is dated 1766 and has the initials i F cut in ; this is 

 said to have been cast near the church ; the tenor was 

 by Eldridge 1684, but was recast by Warren in 1887. 



The church possesses no old plate, the set in use 

 comprising two silver cups and a standing paten of 1 8 3 7, 

 a plate of 1805, and a plated flagon. 



The first book of the registers contains baptisms, 

 marriages, and burials from 1653 to 1672 ; the second 

 has baptisms from 1673 to 1770, marriages 1673 to 

 1754, and burials 1673 to 1786 ; the third has mar- 

 riages 175410 1 763; fifth, marriages 176310 I787;sixth, 

 the same to 1812 ; seventh, baptisms from 1770 and 

 burials from 1 787, both to 1 808 ; eighth, baptisms 1 809 

 to 1812 ; and ninth, burials for the sane period. 



ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST'S CHURCH, of stone 

 in 13th-century style, was built by Sir Gilbert, then 

 Mr., Scott, in 1842 at Goldsworth, and enlarged in 

 1879 and 1883. 



The present church of CHRIST CHURCH parish 

 was built in red brick in 1889. 



ST. PAUL'S, MAYBURT HILL, built of red 

 brick with Bath stone windows and quoins, was 



erected in 1895 as a chapel of ease to Christ 

 Church. 



An iron church, Holy Trinity, was built at Knapp 

 Hill in 1855. 



The church of Woking from early 

 4DVOWSONS times seems to have had the Prior 

 and convent of Newark in Send as 

 its patrons." After the dissolution of that monastery 

 in the l6th century, it generally followed the history 

 of the manor. A few exceptions must, however, be 

 noted. Thus it was granted by Philip and Mary to 

 John White, Bishop of Winchester. 100 Elizabeth 

 seems to have resumed the patronage, and towards the 

 end of her reign granted it to Francis Aungier, 101 after- 

 wards Baron Longford. Under James I two persons, 

 named respectively Francis Maurice and Francis 

 Phelips, 10 ' received it from the Crown, but this grant 

 was possibly in trust for the lord of the manor, for 

 James Zouch presented in l637, 103 and from that date 

 it has been united with the manor. 



The parish of St. John the Baptist was formed from 

 the old parish in 1884. The living is in the gift of 

 the vicar of Woking. 



Christ Church parish was formed out of the same dis- 

 trict in 1893. In 1877 it was served by a temporary 

 church. The living is in the gift of trustees. 



Of old charities only Smith's, distri- 

 CHARITY buted as in other Surrey parishes, 

 appears to exist. 



WORPLESDON 



Werpesdune (xi cent.) ; Wcrplesdone and Wer- 

 plesden (xii cent.). 



Worplesdon is a parish lying 3 miles north-west 

 from Guildford. It contains 5,253 acres, and is about 

 5 miles east to west, and 3 miles north to south in 

 extreme measurement. The village and church stand 

 upon an abrupt hill of Bagshot sand (the Bracklesham 

 Beds), but round it the soil is lower Bagshot sand. 

 To the south the parish is on the London Clay, and 

 to the east there is alluvium of the Wey valley. The 

 river runs through the parish for a short distance, and 

 is joined by a brook, sometimes called Worplesdon 

 Brook. There are brick and tile works, and 

 cement works in the parish, and nursery gardens. 

 It is otherwise agricultural, and a great part of 

 it is waste land. Whitmoor and Broad Street 

 Commons are extensive wastes. The Guildford 

 and Aldershot road passes through it, and the main 

 London and South-Western Railway line from Lon- 

 don to Portsmouth. There is a Worplesdon station, 

 which lies however, in Woking parish. 



The parish was divided into four tithings : Perry 

 Hill, about the hill on which the church stands ; 

 Burpham, on the east side ; West End ; and Wyke. 

 The last, which was separated from the rest of the 

 parish, was added to Ash (q.v.) in 1890. 



The heaths are rich in archaeological remains. 

 Aubrey ' mentions a trench and bank, the bank on 

 the west side running through this parish from south- 

 east to north-west. It is still visible on Whitmoor 

 Common, though it is now curtailed at both ends by 



extended cultivation, and at the south end has been 

 apparently incorporated into the bank of a lane. It 

 is roughly parallel to the railway line, on the west 

 side of it, some 400 yds, from it. The existing 

 portion is about 600 yds. long, too long for one side of 

 an inclosure, more probably a boundary ditch. There 

 are also Bronze Age tumuli which have been opened, 

 and pottery found there is now in the Pitt-Rivers 

 collection, Oxford. Arrow-heads and implements, 

 including a perforated stone hammer head, are in the 

 Archaeological Society's Museum at Guildford, and 

 in the Charterhouse Museum. On Broad Street 

 Common a Roman villa was excavated in 1829. A 

 piece of pavement of some interest was removed to 

 Clandon Park by the Earl of Onslow, lord of the manor. 

 Tiles and pottery, and some doubtful pieces of metal, 

 but no decipherable coins were found.' Romano- 

 British interments, with pottery, have been found at 

 Burpham. Some of the pottery is in the Archaeo- 

 logical Society's Museum at Guildford ; but it is 

 chiefly kept in private hands. 



Close by Worplesdon Church, on the top of the 

 hill, a tower used to stand with a semaphore, forming 

 part of the communications between Portsmouth and 

 London. 



Two rather notable names occur among the rectors : 

 Thomas Comber, 1615-42, Master of Trinity Col- 

 ledge, Cambridge, and John Burton, 1766-71. The 

 latter was author of a curious work, lier Surriense et 

 Sussexiense, published 1752, which contains two 

 different accounts in Latin and Greek of a journey 



99 Br acton's Note Bk. 769 ; also Wykc- 

 ham't Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 61, 156, 

 &c. 



100 Pat. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv. 



101 Ibid. 33 Eliz. pt. . 

 104 Ibid. 7 Jas. I, pt. xxii. 



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103 Winton Epis. Reg. Curie, fol. 420. 



1 Hiit. ofSurr. iii, 326. 



" Braj'ley, Hilt. ofSurr. ii, 44. 



