GODLEY HUNDRED 



CHOBHAM 



son was sold in 1819 to the Haberdashers' Company, 

 as trustees to hold advowsons under the will of Lady 

 Weld. 114 The presentation is now in the hands of the 

 Company, but the Governors of Christ's Hospital 

 nominate alternately with them. 



THE HABERDASHERS. 

 Barry wavy argent and 

 azure a bend gules and 

 thereon a leopard of 

 England. 



CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. 

 Argent a erost gules 

 with St. Paufs sword 

 gules in the quarter and 

 a chief azure with a 

 Tudor rose between two 

 flturs de Us or therein. 



Longcross was made an ecclesiastical district in 1 847. 

 The living is in the gift of the present vicar, the Rev. 

 William Tringham. 



The ecclesiastical district of Botleys and Lyne was 

 formed in 1 849. The Bishop of Winchester is patron. 



Ottershaw and Brox was formed into an ecclesiastical 

 district in 1865. The representatives of the late 

 Rev. B. Hichens are patrons. 



Addlestone was formed into an ecclesiastical dis- 

 trict in 1838. The living is in the gift of the Bishop 

 of Winchester. 



Woodham was made into a separate ecclesiastical 

 district in 1902. 



A chapel on St. Anne's Hill, dedicated to St. Anne, 

 existed in the 1 4th century. The augmentation of 

 the vicarage of Chertsey, made in 1402, granted the 

 vicar all oblations in Chertsey, with the excep- 

 tion of those coming from the chapel of St. Anne." 4 

 Licence to perform service in the newly-erected 

 chapel had been granted in 1334."' There is an 



artificially lined well and a little stonework on the hill, 

 perhaps the remains of the chapel. But Antony Wood 

 says that the Chertsey tradition of his day was to the 

 effect that Laurence Tomson, the Biblical scholar, who 

 died in 1 608 and is buried at Chertsey, built the house 

 on St. Anne's Hill on the ' very place where that 

 chapel stood.' '" It is not known when the chapel 

 perished. It does not appear among the suppressions 

 of Edward VI of free chapels and chantries, neither 

 does it appear among the possessions of Chertsey when 

 surrendered. 



Sir John Denham, in his poem on Coopers Hill, 

 published in 1643, refers to 



' . . . a neighbouring hill whose top of late 

 A chapel crowned, till in the common fate 

 Th' adjoyning abbey fell.' 



Smith's Charity is distributed in 

 CHARITIES Chertsey. 



In 1721 Henry Sherwood left land 

 for the clothing of three poor men and three poor 

 women, but all trace of it has been long lost. 



Miss Mary Giles, who died in 1841, gave in her 

 lifetime 800, the interest to be devoted to bread for 

 the poor on St. Thomas's Day, and 2 to the vicar 

 and churchwardens for superintending it, and l 

 towards keeping up the family monument. By will 

 she left 2,700, clear of all duties, for the poor. 

 From this two almshouses for widows were built and 

 endowed. 1 " 



Mr. Edward Chapman, a draper of Chertsey, built 

 two almshouses in 1668 for poor widows, in Windsor 

 Street. In 1815 they were removed to Gogmore Lane. 



Mrs. Mary Hammond, widow, of the Abbey House, 

 founded almshouses for four widows in 1645 ; Thomas 

 Cowley for two widows in 1671. Richard Clark 

 built new houses in place of these two in 1782, and 

 Mr. Hammond's almshouses were rebuilt by the 

 parish, all in Guildford Street. 



In 1837 Mr. Thomas Willatts built two aims- 

 houses in Chapel Lane. 



CHOBHAM 



Cebeham (xi cent.) ; Chabbeham (in Chertsey 

 Charter), and Chabham (xiii cent.). 



Chobham is a village 3^ miles north-west of 

 Woking Junction, 6 miles south-west of Chertsey. 

 The parish is bounded on the north-east by Egham 

 and Chertsey, on the south by Horsell, Bisley, and 

 Pirbright, on the west by Ash, on the north-west by 

 Windlesham. It measures about 6 miles from north- 

 east to south-west, 4 miles from north-west to south- 

 east at the north-eastern part, but 2 miles only 

 further west. It contains 9,057 acres of land and 

 22 of water. It is traversed by the Bourne Brook and 

 its tributaries which flow from the Chobham Ridges 

 to the Thames near Weybridge, and the village and 

 hamlets are chiefly on the gravel and alluvium of the 

 stream beds, but the rest of the parish is on the 

 Bagshot Sands, with extensive peat beds. There are 

 very extensive open heaths with clumps of conifers. 



Ironstone abounds, and there are several strong 

 chalybeate springs. The Wokingham and Reading 

 branch of the London and South Western Railway 

 runs through the northern side of the parish, and 

 Sunningdale Station is just beyond the border. 



Neolithic flints are said to have been found, and 

 there are several round barrows on the heaths ; three 

 stand close together near Street's Heath, and the 

 Herestraet or Via Mi/itaris of the Chertsey Charters 

 ran through Chobham parish. In 1772 silver coins 

 of Gratian and Valentinian (? the first), and copper 

 coins of Theodosius, Honorius, and Valentinian, a 

 spear-head and a gold ring, were found near Chob- 

 ham Park. 1 



Near Sunningdale Station is a very large inclosure 

 of earthen banks on the heath. The old ordnance 

 map marked it as 'old entrenchment,' but the later 

 maps ignore it. It is artificial, and not round 



n< Deed enrolled in Chancery 19 June 

 1819. 

 5 Exch. K..R. Miic. Bki.vol. 25, fol. 39. 



'"' Winton Epij. Reg. Orleton, i, fol. Jo. 

 M Athtnac Oxonienset (ed. of 1721), i, 

 4. 



413 



318 Monument to Milt Mary Gile* in 

 church. 



1 Manning and Bray,//;V. ofSurr. 111,195. 



