ELMBRIDGE HUNDRED 



COBHAM 



responsible for the wooden bridge, contributing 400 

 to the first expense. There was a wooden bridge, 

 subject to the same restrictions in use, on the road to 

 Ockham and East Horsley, which was replaced by 

 a brick bridge about the same date. 



A fishery at Cobham Bridge was granted by 

 Charles II to Thomas Wyndham, whose wife Eliza- 

 beth had assisted the king's escape after the battle of 

 Worcester. 4 Down Mill is in the southern part of 

 the parish, in Downeside (see below) ; Cobham 

 Mill is close to Church Cobham. Both are on the 

 Mole. 



There was a fair on St. Andrew's Day, the patron 

 saint of the church, changed to 1 1 December since 

 new style came in, and another on I May. The 

 Inclosure Act was among the first in the county ; 

 the common fields were inclosed by an Act * procured 

 by Mr. Thomas Page of Poynters in Cobham, who 

 had just bought the manor. Again in 1793 the 

 waste was inclosed, with the exception of 300 acres 

 left for pasturage and turf-cutting, mostly about 

 Fairmile. 



On the high ground of Cobham Common was one 

 of the semaphores in the line from London to Ports- 

 mouth. 



St. John's Mission Church was built in 1899 by 

 Miss Carrick Moore of Brook Farm, in memory of 

 her father Mr. John Carrick Moore. 



St. Matthew's, Hatchford, consisting of a chancel 

 and nave in 14th-century style, was built in 1858. 



There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Baptist 

 chapels in the parish. 



The cemetery at Cobham Tilt was opened in 1883. 



The Public Hall was built in 1887. 



The Old Church Style House was formerly used as a 

 home of rest for ladies of slender means, and later as 

 a home of rest for poor women of all classes. It is 

 an old house, restored, by the churchyard gate. A 

 modern inscription in the house says that it was built 

 in 1432 and restored in 1635. 



Cobham Park is the seat of Mr. Charles Combe, 

 D.L., J.P. Close to it are the paddocks and stabling 

 of the Cobham Stud Company. Cobham Park was 

 formerly known as Downe Place, and that part of the 

 parish was called Downeside, from a family of that 

 name who are recorded in the Visitation of 1623. 

 John Downe died in 1656 (see Charities). A Mr. John 

 Bridges built a new house here, and sold it to the 

 eminent soldier Sir John Ligonier in 1750.* Sir 

 John was created, in 1757, Viscount Ligonier in the 

 peerage of Ireland, in 1763 Baron Ligonier of Ripley 

 in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and in 1 766 

 Earl Ligonier. His property extended into Ripley. 

 He died in 1770, aged 91, having served in the army 

 since the reign of William III. His nephew and heir to 

 his Irish peerage died in 1782, and Downe Place was 

 then sold to the Earl of Carhampton, who in 1 807 sold 

 it to Mr. Harvey Christian Combe. 7 * The estate 

 has since remained in his family. The present owner, 

 Mr. Charles Combe, D.L., J.P., was born in 1836, 

 and served in the 3rd Bombay Cavalry in Russia 



and in the Mutiny. The house was rebuilt by him 

 in 1874. 



Cobham Court is on the site of the original manor- 

 house. It was reserved out of the sale of the manor in 

 1708, and is now the seat of Mr. Philip Warren. 

 Brook Farm was built on the land of a farm belonging 

 to Mr. Porter by Colonel Edward Leatherland in 

 1800. In 1807 it was bought by Captain (after- 

 wards Admiral Sir Graham) Moore, R.N., brother to 

 Sir John Moore of Corunna, and son to Dr. Moore 

 'of Zelucco.' It was bought with the prize-money 

 of the Spanish treasure ships, the capture of which by 

 Captain Moore gave an excuse for war in 1 804. It 

 descended to his nephew Mr. John Moore, and is now 

 the seat of that gentleman's daughter Miss Carrick 

 Moore. 



Hatchford, the property of Mrs. C. Stone, is 

 on the site of an older house built by Mr. Lewis 

 Smith in the 1 8th century. Miss Isabella Saltonstall, 

 who endowed the living, died there in 1829. Lord 

 Francis Egerton built a new house about 1 842, which 

 is now occupied by Sir Henry Samuelson, bait. 



Fox Warren is the seat of Mrs. Buxton ; Sandroyd 

 House, Fairmile, of Mr. C. P. Wilson ; Knowle Hill 

 of Mr. John Early Cook ; Poynters of Mrs. Mount ; 

 Brackenhurst was the seat of Mr. Edward Harbord 

 Lushington, J.P. 



Fairmile, which with Ockshot is becoming a 

 residential neighbourhood reaching into Cobham, 

 Esher, and Stoke D'Abernon parishes, appears from 

 Bowen's map to have been originally the name of 

 a straight stretch of the Portsmouth road north-east 

 of Street Cobham. 



The manor of COBHAM for many 

 MANORS centuries formed part of the possessions 

 of the Abbot and convent of Chertsey. 

 Frithwald, subregulus of Sur- 

 rey, and Bishop Erkenwald 

 are said to have granted to 

 Chertsey Abbey in 675 'ten 

 manias at Coveham,' 8 and this 

 grant was confirmed and aug- 

 mented by Edward the Con- 

 fessor in 1062. At the time 

 of the Domesday Survey the 

 abbey held Cobham, including 

 three mills. 10 Henry I gave 

 the abbot a grant of free 

 warren in the manor, with 

 leave to keep dogs, and to in- 

 close Cobham Park at his 

 pleasure for hunting purposes." 

 not however allowed him by 



CHERTSEY ABBEY. 



Party or and argent St. 

 Paul' i sword, its hilt or, 

 trotted with St. Pttcr't 

 keyt gulei and axure. 



This privilege was 

 the Quo Warranto 



Commissioners," but in 1285 the king granted a new 

 charter of free warren." The monks from time to 

 time obtained additions to their estate in the shape 

 of small parcels of land acquired by gift or exchange. 14 

 In 1537 they handed over the manor to the king in 

 return for $,ooo. u It continued to belong to the 

 Crown till 1553, when Queen Mary granted the 

 reversion of the manor, then in the hands of lessees, 



4 Cal. S.P. Dam. 1668-9, p. 323. 



1 19 Geo. Ill, cap. 15. 



* 33 Geo. III. cap. 69. 



" Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 73 5. 



7 "The Earl of Carhampton wa not 

 admitted to the copyhold of the manor, 

 held by the second Lord Ligonier's daugh- 

 ters, or their assigns, till 1802. But Bray 



was steward of the manor in 1782, and 

 is therefore probably right in the date 

 which he gives for the sale of Downe 

 Place i Cobham Ct. R. 



8 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, no. 39. 



Kemble, Cod. Difl. iv, no. Siz. 



10 f.C.H. Surr. i, 307*. 



11 Cart. Antiq. OO., 4. 



443 



11 Plae. de Quo ffarr. (Rec. Com.), 744. 



18 Chart. R. 13 Edw. I, pt. ii, no. 

 58. 



Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 19 Hen. Ill, 

 no. 12 ; Mich. 5 Edw. I, no. 34 ; Pit. 

 12 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 18. 



u Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. 

 VIII. 



