KINGSTON HUNDRED 



KINGSTON- 

 UPON-THAMES 



was built in 1856."" The Presbyterian Church of 

 England chapel, built in Grove Crescent Road in 

 1883, has no connexion with this original Noncon- 

 formist body. Another early body of Nonconformists 

 in Kingston was that of the Quakers. George Fox 

 often preached here, the meetings being held in the 

 house known as King John's Dairy. In 1769 they 

 had a burial-place in Eden Street 1M and there they 

 still have a meeting-house. The Wesleyans also have 

 one chapel in Eden Street, another being at Kingston 

 Hill. There are also four Baptist chapels : in Union 

 Street, Queen Elizabeth Road, Cowleaze, and London 

 Road. The first represents a secession from the Indepen- 

 dents in the latter part of the 1 8th century. The Primi- 

 tive Methodists have chapels in Victoria and Richmond 

 Roads, while the Brethren meet in the Apple-market. 



Heathen, now Eden Street, is said to have taken 

 its name from being the Jews' quarter, and was so 

 called when the earliest extant rentals were made. 

 This and London Street are full of quaint houses, 

 some timbered, some built of wood. 



Next to the Grammar School chapel in the 

 London Road are almshouses of red brick, six on 

 either side of a projecting middle bay with a gabled 

 head. The houses are of two stories with modern 

 door and window frames and tiled roofs. In the 

 middle bay a square-headed doorway with cemented 

 rustic quoins opens into a small common room. On 

 the first floor are three oval windows, and in the 

 middle a tablet inscribed ' CHARITATI SACRUM Anno 

 Salutis 1668 being the Gift of WILLIAM CLEAVE Alder- 

 man of London for Six Poor Men and Six Poor 

 Women of this Town for whose Maintenance for 

 Ever He hath given A Competent Revenue and also 

 Caused these Buildings to be Erected at his own 

 Expense for the Habitation and Convenience of the 

 said People.' On a cartouche over are his arms : 

 Argent on a fesse between three wolves' heads razed 

 sable three molets or ; and crest, an eagle with a ser- 

 pent in its beak. Above this is a sundial with the 

 initials and date W C 1668. 



The Technical Institute in Kingston Hill Road and 

 the Polytechnic in Fife Road provide education in 

 technical subjects, and secondary education is cared for 

 by the Grammar and the Tiffin foundation schools, and 

 there are several elementary schools. 



Norbiton (Norbinton, xiii cent. ; Norbeton, xiv 

 cent.), which lies towards the north end of London 

 Street, is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but 

 occurs early in the I3th century when William de 

 Wicumb and Sailda his wife quitclaimed 6 acres of 

 land there to Hamon son of Ralf and William son of 

 Siward. 104 The hamlet was part of the manor of 

 Kingston, and the common which lay to the north 

 was under the control of the bailiffs and freemen, 10 ' 

 who used the timber there for ' the mending, repair- 

 ing and entreteyning of the wayes ' as being appur- 

 tenant 'to the King's Royalty, the grant whereof 

 they have in their fee farm.' "" The right of felling 

 the timber was upheld by an order in Council in 

 1 543," though violently opposed by the inhabitants 



of Norbiton, and was of some value, for the Court of 

 Assembly ordered, in 1680, 'that a book should be 

 bought to enter ye accounts of ye wardens of Norbi- 

 ton Common in, and that the same be left with the 

 Town clerk to enter as other accounts.'"" 



In the East Field of Norbiton in the reign of 

 Edward III lay Walepot, Adewellerthe, Kyondes- 

 croft, Crokkeres Forlang, and Wateryngcroft, 1 " and 

 the common of Norbiton is mentioned as the northern 

 boundary of a road which had ' le Holefur ' on the 

 south." 1 The common lands were inclosed under an 

 Act of Parliament obtained in 1808,"' and from that 

 date the population grew so rapidly that the new 

 ecclesiastical district of St. Peter was formed in 1842, 

 the parish of St. John the Baptist, Kingston Vale, 

 in 1847, the consolidated chapelry of St. John the 

 Evangelist in 1873, the parish of St. Paul, King- 

 ston Hill, in 1 88 1, and the parish of St. Luke, 

 Gibbon Road, in 1 890."* The population numbered 

 9,063 in 1 90 1. 1 " From the Kingston Road, King- 

 ston Hill, and Park Road, innumerable streets have 

 radiated, and nearly the whole space here between 

 the Hogsmill river and Richmond Park is now 

 occupied or about to be developed. Manor Gate Road 

 takes its name from the ' Manyngate ' mentioned with 

 Tarendeslane in the reign of Richard III. 114 A road 

 from Latchmere towards Manningate is mentioned in 

 1605,"" Hog Lane Gate in 1683."' 



Among the larger houses in Norbiton are Kenry 

 House (Earl of Dunraven), Coombe Hurst (Mr. 

 R. C. Vyner), Warren House (Gen. Sir A. H. F. 

 Paget), Coombe End (Mr. B. Weguelan), Coombe 

 Wood Farm (Lord Archibald Campbell), Coombe 

 Warren (Mr. L. Currie), Coombe Court (Earl de 

 Grey), and Latchmere House (Mr. P. Jackson). 



The Elementary Schools are St. Peter's, Cambridge 

 Road, 1852 ; St. Paul's School, 1871 ; and St. John 

 the Evangelist's School, 1873 ; the Bonner Hill Road 

 School was built in 1906, and schools in connexion 

 with the churches of St. John the Evangelist, St. 

 Luke, and the Roman Catholic Church of St. Agatha. 

 In Church Road the Guild House School is for 

 physically defective children. 



Surbiton (Subertone, xiii cent. ; Subeton, xiv cent.) 

 is not mentioned in Domesday Book, but was a 

 hamlet in 1179 when the men of Surbiton, repre- 

 sented by John Hog and about twenty others, granted 

 to the Prior and convent of Merton land in Grapel- 

 ingham for twenty-one years, with a preference, 

 under which a fresh lease was made in I2O3. 118 The 

 grange of Edith de la Stronde is mentioned in 

 I229, 119 and in 1296 Isabella widow of William le 

 Haselye granted her curtilage to John le Poter with 

 the hedge and ditch towards the field and with the 

 wall towards the highway. 1 " In 1417-18 seven- 

 teen tenements here paid i lit. n\J. quit-rent to 

 the bailiffs and freemen of Kingston, the rate here as 

 elsewhere being zd. per acre. 1 " Until the inclosure 

 award made for Kingston in 1838 under authority 

 of an Act of Parliament of 1 808 '" about 1 90 acres 

 remained commonable in Surbiton, and extended 



us Waddington, Surr. Congregational 

 Hiit. 233 (from the Church Bk.). 



104 Doc. of Corp. Quit Rent Bk. 1769. 



1M Feet of F. Surr. 3 Hen. Ill, no. 17. 



Doc. of Corp. Ct. Bk. 



W Aca of P.C. (new er.), 1541-7, 

 pp. 154-5. 



" L. and P. Htn. fill, xviii (l), 893. 



109 Doc. of Corp. Ct. of Assembly Bk. 

 7 July 1680. 



110 RentaU and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 629. 



111 Ct. Bks. 



11 Local Act, 48 Geo. Ill, cap. 134. 

 lu Limi. Gax. 6 May 1873, p. 2249 ; 

 10 Jan. 1881, p. no. 

 '" Pop. Rtt. 1901. 



493 



' Rental, and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 629. 

 "Add. R. 26599. 



W Corp. Ct. of Alterably Bk. 20 May 

 1683. lu Surr. Arch. Coll. viii, 14. 



119 Feet of F. Surr. 13 Hen. HI, no. 22. 

 Add Chart. 17273. 

 '" Land. MS. 226, fol. 64. 

 '-' Local Act, 48 Geo. Ill, cap. 134. 



