GODLEY HUNDRED 



CHERTSEY 



public path leading down the north side of the hill it is 

 obvious. The name, moreover, of the hill was Elde- 

 bury Hill. Under this name a chapel of St. Anne 

 was built upon it (vide infra), 



The house St. Anne's Hill, whether built on the 

 site of the chapel or not (vide infra), is famous as the 

 home of Charles James Fox. It was copyhold of the 

 manor of Chertsey Beomond. Almners Barns south 

 of the hill and Monk's Grove east of it were both 

 possessions of the abbey, the former the endowment of 

 the Almoner. It is now the residence of Major-General 

 Berkeley. St. Anne's is now the residence of the 

 Hon. Stephen Powys, Monk's Grove of Mr. J. St. Foyne 

 Fair. William Eldridge was a local bell-founder, and 

 a house a few yards to the north of the church on the 

 opposite side of the street is stated to have moulds in 

 the cellars which he used for his foundry, and his 

 family also lived there. Docket Point was the 

 seat of the late Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, 

 bart., M.P. 



In 1800 an Act was passed for inclosing land in 

 the manors of Walton-on-Thames and Walton Leigh, 

 which included 565 acres of waste in the parish of 

 Chertsey. Of this 60 acres were left for the use of 

 the commoners. The award is dated 1 8 December 

 1804." In 1808 another Act was passed for the 

 inclosure of waste and common fields in the manor of 

 Chertsey Beomond.* By statute 14. George III, 

 cap. 114, there was an inclosure of common fields in 

 the manor of Laleham lying in Chertsey in Surrey, 

 but the meadow called Laleham Borough was not 

 inclosed, and was specially excepted in the Act of 

 1808. 



A church-room was built in 1897 as a memorial 

 of the Diamond Jubilee. St. Anne's Mission Hall 

 was presented by Mr. Tulk in 1890. 



The cemetery is in Eastworth Road, with a mortuary 

 chapel of St. Stephen, consecrated in 1851. 



There is reason to believe that a Nonconformist 

 congregation of Chertsey represents a Presbyterian con- 

 gregation licensed under the Indulgence of 1672." 

 A chapel was built near the back of the Swan Inn in 

 1725, which was enlarged in 1823. A new chapel 

 was built in 1876, and the body is now Congrega- 

 tional, not Presbyterian." The Wesleyan chapel was 

 built in 1863, and renovated in 1897. There are 

 also Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels. 



The School of Handicrafts in Eastworth Road was 

 built by Mr. T. Hawksley, M.D., in 1885, and en- 

 dowed by him also at a total cost of 25,000 for the 

 elementary and industrial training of boys. There are 

 about 100 boys there. 



Sir William Perkins by deed in 1725 founded a 

 school for the education and clothing of twenty-five 

 poor boys and twenty-five poor girls. The value of 

 the property left having largely increased, a scheme 

 was approved in Chancery in 1819 for rebuilding the 

 school and making it available for the education in all 

 of 2 50 boys and 150 girls, thirty-five of the former and 

 thirty of the latter being clothed. Thorpe, Egham, 

 and Staines children could be admitted by the trustees 

 if Chertsey children were not excluded. An infants' 

 school was built in 1845 and conveyed to the Perkins 

 Trustees in 1890. The whole schools were rebuilt in 

 1889-92. They are Church of England schools, 



and by the scheme of 1819 the head master was if 

 possible to be a clerk in holy orders. 



Longcross is a hamlet of Chertsey, 3$ miles west 

 of the town. It was made an ecclesiastical district in 

 1847. The school (Church) was founded in 1847 

 and enlarged in 1852. The Rev. W. Tringham, 

 vicar, resides at Longcross and is the chief land- 

 owner. 



Botleys and Lyne, a hamlet of Chertsey, is 2 miles 

 south by west. The school was built in 1895. 

 Botleys Park, the residence of Mr. Henry Gosling, 

 Almners Barns, now called Almners, mentioned above, 

 Foxhills, the seat of Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, and 

 Fan Court, the seat of Sir Edward D. Stern, are in 

 this district. 



Ottershaw and Brox is an ecclesiastical district ; 

 the schools (Church) were built in 1870. 



There are in the district three homes of the 

 Ministering Children's League, for the rescue of 

 destitute children, established by the Countess of 

 Meath in 1888, 1890, and 1895 respectively. There 

 is another home for children established in 1884 by 

 Mrs. Goldingham of Anningsley Park, in memory of 

 her husband. 



Messrs. Fletcher have extensive nursery grounds here. 



Ottershaw Park is the seat of Mr. Lawrence James 

 Baker, J.P. ; the present house was built by 

 Sir Thomas Sewell, Master of the Rolls. Anningsley 

 Park is the seat of Mrs. Goldingham. It formerly 

 belonged to Mr. Thomas Day, the once well-known 

 author ofSandford and Merton. Ottermead is a seat 

 of the Earl of Meath ; and Queenwood is the seat of 

 Mr. R. H. Otter, J.P. 



Addlestone, properly Atlesdon or Atlesford, is an 

 ecclesiastical district which may be considered to have 

 outstripped the original centre of the parish, Chertsey, 

 in importance. This ward contains the largest number 

 of people of the three wards into which the Chertsey 

 Urban District is divided, and the number of new 

 houses shows the growing character of the neighbour- 

 hood. 



Ongar Hill is the seat of Mr. Henry Cobbett. It 

 once belonged to Admiral Sir Hyde Parker the elder, 

 who died in 1782. Sayes Court was an old house, 

 the property of a family named Moore from the 

 1 7th to the end of the i8th century. It became in 

 1823 the property of Sir Charles Wetherell, Recorder 

 of Bristol, who rebuilt it apparently, or altered it 

 very much. 



Another ecclesiastical district of Addlestone, called 

 Woodham, was formed in 1902 on the boundaries of 

 Chertsey and Horsell. A Baptist chapel was built 

 in 1872, and a Wesleyan chapel in 1898. At 

 Woburn Park is the Roman Catholic College of 

 St. George, directed by Josephite Fathers, for the 

 education of the upper and middle classes. There 

 is a chapel, and a farm is attached to the college. 

 It was removed from Croydon to Woburn Park in 

 1884. 



The workhouse of the Chertsey Union is in Addle- 

 stone, and was built in 1 836-8. The chapel was added 

 in 1868. The Village Hall was built in 1887 by 

 the Addlestone Village Hall Company. The Princess 

 Mary Village Homes at Addlestone were established 

 by the exertions of the late Duchess of Teck (Princess 



19 Blue Bk. Incl. Aviardt. 

 90 Tithe Commutation Returni at 

 Board of Agric. 



V.C.H. Surr. ii, 40. 

 w It wa endowed by Mr. William 

 White with land at Byfleet in 175 2, and 



405 



by Mr. Thomas Willatts with 850 in 

 1837. 



