A HISTORY OF SURREY 



settlement lay near the borders of the anciently inhabited district, and 

 which stretched indefinitely perhaps into the forest, were divided as popu- 

 lation grew and new villages came into existence. A similar process was 

 going on in Sussex, and the deUmitation of parishes must have been 

 accompanied by the fixing of the county boundaries in the previously 

 uninhabited forest. The old parishes hereabouts had been large. Farn- 

 ham included the whole Hundred. Abinger, Dorking,' Blechingley, God- 

 stone and Tandridge, reaching from the Chalk to the parallel line which 

 the Sussex boundary makes with it, were or are from nine to ten miles long. 

 From the taxation of Pope Nicholas," in 1 291, it appears that the 

 majority of the old Surrey parishes had come into existence by that time. 

 Some of these more ancient and extensive parishes were still undivided 

 however, especially in the Weald and in the north-west of the county. 

 Thorpe did not in 1291 appear as a parish, and was probably part of 

 Chertsey. Egham and Chobham and Chertsey were separate vicarages, 

 but were taxed together. Kew, Sheen and Petersham were parts of 

 Kingston. Putney and Mortlake were parts of Wimbledon. Horsell, 

 Pirbright and Pirford were parts of Woking, but there were chapels 

 of Horsell and Pirford, and of Pirbright. Bisley was probably part 

 of Byfleet. Wisley did not appear as a parish, though there was a 

 church there mentioned in Domesday. Probably it was taxed with 

 Ockham, as in lay subsidies of the fourteenth century ; the Domesday 

 church may have gone to ruin, or the Pirford chapel, not named in 

 Domesday but partly Norman, may possibly be meant by the Domesday 

 church at Wisley.^ Chessington was not separated from Maiden, nor 

 Little Bookham from Great Bookham. Warlingham cum Capella meant 

 Warlingham and Chelsham. Farnham cum Capella meant Farnham and 

 Frensham. Seale and Elsted were parts of Farnham.* Witley cum 

 Capella meant Witley and Thursley. Chiddingfold cum Capella meant 

 Chiddingfold and Haslemere. Bramley was part of Shalford. Hascombe 

 was perhaps part of Shalford or Godalming. In 1305 Henry Husee 

 died seized of the manor and of the advowson of the church of Has- 

 combe, so that it must have become a parish very soon after 1291. 

 Dorking cum Capella meant Dorking and Capel. Home was part of 

 Blechingley. To Coulsdon was attached the chapel of Whattingdon, 

 which has not developed into a separate parish church, but was long 

 since destroyed. St. Mary's was the parish church of Guildford, Holy 

 Trinity not appearing. Wanborough was not a parish, though it appears 

 as taxed among the temporalities of Waverley Abbey." 



' Dorking included Capel down to the fourteenth century at any rate. 



" Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), zo6, etc. 



^ Possibly, not probably, for the ownership was different. 



♦ The earliest record I find of more than one chapel attached to Farnham is a licence for a lease 

 of the tithes of Farnham 'et capellarum annexarum ' in 1347 (Winton Epis. Reg., Edyngdon 13?) 



» A Taxatio EccksiasHca is copied into the end ofWykeham's Register ( 1 367-1404) which tl 

 editor of the Register for the Hampshire Record Society supposes to be an earlier fourteenth centi 

 copy of Pope Nicholas' Taxation. It includes Wanborough, Hascombe, Bisley, Wisley, Okewood (ch: 

 try), WolJingham and ' Merewe,' as not taxed. The last is the Merrow land of the Priory 

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