WOKING HUNDRED 



WORPLESDON 



from Oxford through Henley, Windsor, Kingston, 

 Epsom, Dorking, Horsham, Lewes, Brighton, Shore- 

 ham, Chichester. He also wrote a defence of the 

 study of Greek. His Greek journey is peculiarly 

 interesting from its notices of the country. He is 

 said to have made at his own expense the causeway 

 on which the road to Guildford runs, near Wood- 

 bridge, in order that he might ride to Guildford in 

 flood time. 



The Inclosure Act for Worplesdon dealt mainly 

 with the Wyke portion in 1803.'* 



Burying Place Farm has its name from a Friends' 

 burial-ground, presented by Stephen Smith of Wor- 

 plesdon, one of the early Friends, a friend of Fox, who 

 died in 1678. The meeting was amalgamated with 

 that of Guildford in 1739. The burying-ground was 

 sold in 1852.* There was a General Baptist Meeting 



date, and on the west side of the green a red brick 

 house of the same period with slight ornament in the 

 form of brick labels to the windows. At the south- 

 west is a pretty group of half-timbered cottages with 

 brick filling and projecting bays with rounded pedi- 

 ments in brick over the lower windows. East of the 

 green the ground rises to its highest point, on which 

 the church is built. Though surrounded by trees a 

 very fine and typical view of the county, particularly 

 to the eastward, is obtained from the tower. William 

 Cole the antiquary, who visited the parish in 1774, 

 has left a description from which it appears that he 

 had to drive up the hill to the church, although it is 

 difficult to see by what route he approached. 



Worplesdon Place is the residence of Sir J. L. Walker, 

 C.I.E. ; Rickford, of Lt.-Col. Montgomery ; Rydes Hill, 

 of Mr. F. Williams ; Stoke Hill, of Mrs. Paynter. 



HALF-TIMBER COTTAGES AT WORPLESDON 



at Worplesdon, removed to Meadrow, Godalming, 

 after 1805.* 



There is a Congregational chapel built in i8zz, 

 and a Congregational mission hall at Rydeshill. There 

 is also a Primitive Methodist chapel at Burpham. On 

 Whitmoor Common is a Joint Isolation Hospital, 

 built in 1 899 under the control of a Joint Guildford, 

 Godalming, and Woking Hospital Board. 



Schools (provided) were built at Perry Hill in 

 1 86 1, and at Wood Street. 



The village stands on high wooded ground, and is 

 partly grouped round an oblong green and partly 

 along the main road which runs north and south, 

 with descents at both extremities of the village. 

 There are several half-timber houses of 17th-century 



The present rectory lies at the foot of a steep 

 grassy slope south-west of the churchyard, with which 

 it is connected by a footpath. 



WORPLESDON (Werpesdene, xiii and 

 M4NOR xiv cents. ; Worpisdene, xv cent.) was 

 held by Earl Roger in chief at the time of 

 Domesday. Turald held it of him, 6 and like the rest of 

 the land of Earl Roger in Surrey it became part of the 

 honour of Gloucester.' In the I3th century Gilbert 

 de Basseville held a knight's fee in Worplesdon of the 

 honour of Gloucester, and Gilbert de Holeye held a 

 third part of a fee of the same. 7 The manor of 

 Gilbert de Basseville in Worplesdon appears early in 

 the 1 3th century in two moieties. In 1314 Roland 

 de Wykford held half a knight's fee of the Earl of 



* Private Act, 43 Geo. Ill, cap. I zo. 

 W. March, Early Friends, 52, and 

 local information. 



4 Ch. Bks. Meadrow Chapel. 



y.C.H. Surr. i, 313. 



Tata dt Nevill (Rec. Com.), zio ; 



Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, 68, m. 

 63. 



' Tata de Nevit! (Rec. Com.), zzo. 



