SPELTHORNE HUNDRED 



i 5/. a year, granted in 1774, is duly applied by 

 the vicar. 



In 1804 almshouses for poor and aged inhabi- 

 tants were erected on a piece of land formerly part 

 of Feltham Common, in pursuance of a resolution 

 of the vestry, and endowed with 202 os. 6J. 

 consols. They are further maintained out of the 

 income of the Poor's Land. See below. 



In 1 844 Mrs. Mary Anne Paine (as recorded 

 on a tablet in the church) gave 100 consols 

 to be laid out by the vicar and churchwardens 

 in bread to be distributed among twenty aged 

 poor persons during January, February, and 

 March. 



In 1852 William Paine by a codicil to his will 

 bequeathed 179 121. zd. consols, one moiety of 

 the dividends to be annually applied for benefit of a 

 clothing club, the other moiety annually in January 

 in purchase of clothes to be distributed amongst 

 ten aged poor persons regularly attending services 

 of the Church of England at the discretion of the 

 vicar and churchwardens. The dividends, amount- 

 ing to 4 gs. 8</., are duly applied. 



In 1867 John Ashford, by will, proved at Lon- 

 don 10 April in that year, bequeathed a legacy, 

 represented by 6 1 8 f)t. \d. consols, the dividends 

 to be applied at Christmas time in the purchase 

 of fuel, clothes, meat, or bread for distribution 

 among old men and women. The dividends, 

 amounting to 15 gs., are distributed in meat and 

 clothing under the title of the Ashford and Moore 

 Charity. 



In 1826 Thomas John Burgoyne by deed dated 

 9 December (enrolled) assigned to trustees a piece 

 of ground in St. Pancras, with a messuage thereon 

 for the residue of a term of twenty-one years, and 

 subject as therein mentioned to accumulate the 



HAMPTON 



rents to form a hind, the income thereof to be 

 applied towards the salary of the organist, repair of 

 organ, and for the encouragement of psalmody, or 

 of the church music. The trust fund consists of 

 a sum of 404 os. zJ. consols. The sum of stock 

 has by an order of the Charity Commissioners 

 been apportioned equally between this parish and 

 the parish of Potton, Bedfordshire. 



The several sums of stock are held by the official 

 trustees. 



The Poor's Land or Fuel Allotment, acqu red 

 by an award made under the Inclosure Act, 40 

 Geo. Ill, consists of 30 a. 3 r., known as the 

 ' Gibbet Ground,' awarded to the lord of the 

 manor of Colkennington alias Kempton, and the 

 vicar, churchwardens, and overseers of Feltham for 

 providing fuel for the poor. In 1890 2 acres 

 were purchased for 324, and in 1902 land with 

 greenhouse and buildings erected thereon and five 

 greenhouses at Bedfont were purchased for 425, 

 provided by sale of stock, with the official trustees, 

 leaving in their name a sum of 478 iSj. $d. 

 consols. 



In 1905-6 the gross rental of the real estate 

 amounted to ,217, and the dividends to 

 11 19;. 4^. 



The charity is administered under the provisions 

 of a scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 

 1 8 July 1890, whereby the net income is applic- 

 able primarily in defraying the cost of supplying 

 with coal deserving and necessitous poor resi- 

 dents in the parish, one-twelfth of the residue 

 in defraying the expenses incidental to letting of 

 lands in allotments, and one-twelfth of such re- 

 sidue in maintenance and repair of the almshouses 

 above referred to, and for the benefit of the in- 

 mates. 



HAMPTON 



Hamptone (xi cent.) ; Hamtonet (xiii cent.). 



Hampton is a large parish on the banks of the 

 Thames, which forms its southern and western 

 boundaries and divides it from the neighbouring 

 county of Surrey. It is a low-lying district, no- 

 where rising over 50 ft. above the Ordnance datum, 

 and was formerly open country, part of which now 

 remains as Hounslow Heath. The soil is light 

 and gravelly, and there is little indigenous timber." 

 There is still some pasture land, but most of it has 

 been built over, except in the royal demesne of 

 Hampton Court, which forms a considerable 

 proportion of the parish.' The area, including 

 the ecclesiastical district of Hampton Hill, is 

 about 7,036 acres of land and 62 acres of water. 

 The district called Hampton Wick * on the east, 

 which was made a civil parish in 1831, contains 



1,235 acres of land and 69 acres of water. An 

 ancient British canoe made of the trunk of a tree 

 was found in the Thames opposite the palace, and 

 is now in the British Museum. A row of oak piles 

 also found in the river has been considered Roman, 

 but is probably the remains of an old weir of later 

 date. 



The main road to Kingston-on-Thames is a 

 branch from the Portsmouth Road, which it leaves 

 at Esher, passes through East Molesey, crosses the 

 river at Hampton Court by an iron bridge erected 

 in 1865,' and proceeds outside the wall of 

 the ' Tilt Yard,' and between the Home Park and 

 Bushey Park to Kingston, whence it continues to 

 Richmond and London. Another road branches 

 from the Kingston road opposite the ' Lion Gates,' 

 to the north of the palace, and goes through the 



1 A few old oaks, now much decayed, 

 in the Home Park, and some of the 

 famous ' thorns ' in Bushey Park are said 

 to be indigenous. 



a See pp. 386 et seq. for acreage of 



parks, &c. The manor and parish 

 were originally coterminous. 



8 Hampton Wick includes the Home 

 Park, part of the palace gardens and 

 the eastern portion of Bushey Park. It it 



3'9 



spoken of as ' The Wick ' from an early 

 period. See p. JZ5. 



4 See further account of ferry and 

 bridge, p. 332. 



