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and his widow, who had remarried, died in 1662. 

 The property then passed through several hands ; 

 Viscount Shannon bought it in 1718, and during his 

 tenure the Rt. Hon. W. Pulteney (created Earl of 

 Bath in 1742) lived there. 14 Lord Shannon died 

 in 1 740. He married Grace Senhouse, and their 

 daughter Grace, Countess of Middlesex, died without 

 issue and left Ashley Park to her cousins Colonel John 

 Stephenson and his sisters in succession. The last 

 of these died in 1786, when the property went to 

 Sir Henry Fletcher, bart., another cousin. His son 

 Sir Henry Fletcher, bart., very considerably altered 

 the house. 



Walton Grove, standing in a small park, is the 

 seat of Mrs. Cababe ; Holly Lodge of Mrs. Dyer. 



At the northern end of the Manor Road is a red- 

 brick house with brick pilasters forming a Tuscan order 

 on two sides of the building. It is dated 1732. 



Hersham (Heverisham) is an ecclesiastical parish 

 formed in 1851 from the southern part of Walton-on 

 Thames. It is, roughly, the part of the original 

 parish south of the London and South Western Rail- 

 way line. A chapel of ease (Holy Trinity) was 

 built of yellow brick in Anglo-Norman style in 

 1839. The present church of St. Peter was built by 

 Mr. J. L. Pearson, R.A., in 1887. It is of brick and 

 stone in 1 3th-century style. It has a nave and aisles, of 

 five arcades, chancel, transepts, and a western tower 

 and spire. The site was given by Lieut.-Col. Terry of 

 Burvale. 



There is a Congregational church in the village 

 built in 1839, restored in 1858, and enlarged in 1889. 



An infant school was built when the first chapel of 

 ease was opened in 1839. The present school was 

 built in 1863 and enlarged in 1882. 



The parish hall of Hersham was built by a com- 

 pany in 1885 and enlarged in 1892. 



Pain's Hill is the residence of Mr. Alexander Cushney. 

 It was celebrated as one of the earliest examples of 

 natural landscape gardening on a large scale. It was 

 laid out by the Hon. Charles Hamilton, youngest son 

 of James sixth Earl of Abercorn, Receiver-General of 

 Minorca 174358. The extensive grounds extend 

 also into the parishes of Cobham and Wisley, and 

 owe much to their natural position on the slopes of 

 the high ground about St. George's Hill above the 

 Mole Valley. The present house was built by the 

 next owner Benjamin Bond Hopkins, who died in 

 1794. A later owner, 1804-21, was the Earl of 

 Carhampton, who as Colonel Luttrell had opposed 

 Wilkes in the Middlesex election. 



Burwood Park, the seat of the Misses Askew, was 

 rebuilt before 1809 by Sir John Frederick, bart., M.P. 

 for Surrey, who owned it from 1783 to 1825. It had 

 belonged to a family named Latton, the earliest of 

 whom to come into Surrey was John Latton, steward 

 -of the manor of Richmond, 1694. He for a time 

 held the manor of Esher and died 1727. His arms, 

 Party argent and sable a saltire erminees and ermine 

 counterchanged, used to be in a window taken from 

 the old house. Burwood House is the seat of Mary 

 Louisa Countess of Ellesmere ; Silvermere of Mr. 

 Archibald Seth-Smith ; Burvale of Mr. J. B. Heath ; 

 Burhill Park is now used as a golf club. 



WALTON ON 

 THAMES 



Oatlands Park is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 

 1869 out of the north-western part of Walton on 

 Thames. The church of St. Mary was built as a 

 chapel of ease in 1861. It is of stone in 13th-cen- 

 tury style, with a chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, 

 and bell-turret. There are fourteen memorial win- 

 dows, a marble pulpit, and a marble reredos set up as 

 a memorial to the Rev. G. B. Watson, vicar 1885-7. 



The Working Men's Club was built in 1884 on a 

 site presented by Mr. F. B. Money-Coutts, J.P., and 

 the parish room in 1887. 



The school was built in 1882. 



The old palace at Oatlands, acquired for the Crown 

 by Henry VIII, was in Weybridge parish, and with 

 the manor is described under Weybridge, but the 

 greater part of the land was in Walton. 



Henry Pelham Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln, 

 extended the park and laid out the grounds in 1 747 and 

 the following years, when Woburn Park, Weybridge, 

 Pain's Hill, and Oatlands were considered the finest 

 collection of experiments in a romantic style of land- 

 scape gardening in England. The Duke of York, son 

 of George III, resided here from 1791 to his death ' 

 in 1827, and he and his duchess were extremely 

 popular in the neighbourhood. She died here 

 6 August 1820 and is buried in Weybridge Church. 

 A monument by Chantrey was placed there to her, and 

 a column was erected to her memory on Weybridge 

 Green by the inhabitants in 1822. The park was 

 sold in lots for gentlemen's houses in the middle of 

 the i gth century, and now forms a residential neigh- 

 bourhood. The house is converted into the Oatlands 

 Park Hotel. Foxholes is the seat of Miss Martineau ; 

 Templemere of Lt. -General Sir Arthur Lyttelton- 

 Annesley. 



In the time of Edward the Confessor 

 MANORS Azor held WALTON Manor, with a 

 mill, meadow land, woods, &c. William 

 the Conqueror granted it to Edward of Salisbury, 

 ancestor of the Earls of Salisbury. It passed as part 

 of the dowry of his daughter Maud to Humphrey 

 de Bohun, nicknamed ' Humphrey with the beard.' 16 

 Humphrey son of Humphrey and Maud married 

 Margery eldest daughter of Miles Earl of Hereford. 

 His grandson Henry was created Earl of Hereford in 

 1199, and this manor remained 

 in the tenure of the Bohuns, 

 Earls of Hereford," until 1373, 

 when Humphrey de Bohun, 

 Earl of Hereford and Essex, 

 died seised of it, leaving two 

 daughters, Eleanor and Mary, 

 his co-heirs. 18 Eleanor married 

 Thomas of Woodstock, Duke 

 of Gloucester. Mary became 

 the wife of Henry of Boling- 

 broke, eldest son of John of 

 Gaunt, whoobtained themanor 

 of Walton as part of her dower, 

 and was created Duke of Here- 

 ford in 1397. Mary died in 1394. 18 After Richard II 

 was deposed Bolingbroke ascended the throne by 

 the title of Henry IV. The manor descended 

 to his grandson, Henry VI, who in 1422 as- 



BOHUN, Earl of Here- 

 ford. Azure a bend ar- 

 gent tefuieen nut cotisei 

 and six Ham or. 



15 Bp. Willis's Vlsi.. ..VZ4. III.no. 39 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. II Edw. Ill 18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 46 Edw. Ill (lit 



18 y.C.H. Surr. i, 3Z4*. (znd nos.), no. 50 ; 37 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), nos.), no. 10. 



!" See Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 54 Hen, no. 10. " Doyle, English Btranagt, ii, 166, 316. 



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