FARNHAM HUNDRED 



FARNHAM 



House and Park and Dippenhall. The district 

 church of Wrecclesham, the church of St. Peter, was 

 built in 1840, on the western side of the Farnham 

 road. The church is in thirteenth century style, 

 of sandstone with a chalk interior. It consists 

 of a chancel, nave, and north and south aisles, the 

 former separated from the nave by five, the latter 

 by four pointed arches. There are quatrefoil 

 clearstory windows and three lancets at the east 

 end. The bell-turret, over the north-west part 

 of the church, terminates in a short spire and con- 

 tains two bells. 



In 1862 the BOURNE was separated from 

 Wrecclesham and formed into an ecclesiastical 

 district with a church of its own, the church of St. 

 Thomas, on the left-hand side of the road from 

 Farnham to Frensham, on the northern edge of the 

 valleyof the Bourne.'" It is a plain stone building 

 of local sandstone with chalk interior arches and 

 facings. It consists of a chancel,'** nave, and 

 south aisle divided from the nave by five pointed 

 arches. There are three lancets at the east end 

 and a bell turret at the west end of the nave and 

 aisle. 



In 1871 the south-western part of Wrecclesham 

 and part of Frensham were made into the ecclesi- 

 astical district of ROWLEDGE, with a separate 

 church dedicated in honour of St. James, and 

 standing just over the Hampshire border. It is 

 built in thirteenth century style ; its turret has a 

 spire, but only one bell. 



The ancient tithing of RUNWICK, considered 

 since 1840 as part of the ecclesiastical district of 

 Wrecclesham, lies north-west of Wrecclesham and 

 west of Farnham. The Pilgrims' Way passes 

 through the southern part of the tithing and 

 through Willey Park estate. Willey House or 

 Willey Park and Willey Mill on the VJey are in 

 Runwick. 



Although DIPPENHALL seems locally to lie 

 in Runwick, and was included with Runwick in 

 Wrecclesham district in 1840, it was evidently 

 never part of the tithing, since in the thirteenth 

 century it appears as a distinct tithing of Farn- 

 ham, "s and in the fifteenth and sixteenth as a 

 tithing of Crondall.i*' 



There seems to be no early history of WILLET 

 PARK, but the name of Willey is as old as the early 

 thirteenth century. Rent from Willey Mill, prob- 

 ably one of the six mills of Domesday, appears as 

 a substantial item in the rent rolls of the bishop 

 from 1207 onwards."' In 1207-8 the bailiffs of 

 Farnham manor accounted for 10s. — ' de WiUelmo 

 de Wile pro fine terrae.' >*' 



In Norden's 'Description,' cited above, John 

 Brown, gent., was living at Willey. About the 

 middle of the nineteenth century WiUey Park was 

 held by Captain Ward, whose daughter Augusta 

 married Mr. G. F. Roumieu, J.P., coroner for 



West Surrey, the present owner. Mr. G. P. R. 

 James, the novelist, resided here for some time. 



The land comprised in the ancient tithing of 

 BADSHOT lies to the north-east of Farnham, 

 midway between Farnham and Aldershot. The 

 ecclesiastical parish of Hale formed in 1845 is 

 almost coterminous with the ancient tithing, and 

 the name of the tithing survives only in the dis- 

 trict known as Badshot Lea, which includes Bad- 

 shot Farm and Badshot House. In the south- 

 western part of Badshot Lea there are remains 

 of a moated enclosure, three sides of a square, 

 but all other traces of an interior house are gone. 

 The house, which stood in the moated enclosure, 

 was sold in 1713 by John Stevens to John Lam- 

 pard,***who in 1734 built Bagshot Place or Farm. 

 He bequeathed Bagshot House, pulled down about 

 1830, to Peckham Williams. The present Bagshot 

 House was built near the site."" 



The western part of the ancient tithing is the 

 modern district of HALE, including Upper Hale 

 and Weybourne. Hale evidently owes its impor- 

 tance and rapid growth to its nearness to Aider- 

 shot, since the locality has become a popular 

 place of residence for officers whose regiments are 

 stationed there. Hale Lodge is the residence of 

 Captain K. Verulam Bacon. Weybourne House, 

 which is north-east of Hale, is the residence of 

 Captain Leslie Sylvester, and Hale Place that of 

 Colonel FitzRoy, late R.H.A. 



St. John's Church, Hale, is on the western side 

 of the Aldershot road. It was built in 1 841, en- 

 larged in 1861. It is in Norman style, and built 

 of grey chalk and sandstone. It consists of a 

 chancel, nave, narrow south aisle, and a north aisle, 

 as broad as the nave, running up on the north side 

 of the chancel and opening into it by an arch. 

 On the opposite side of the chancel is a short south 

 transept. At the east end of the south aisle is a 

 round bell turret containing two bells. There are 

 four round arches on the south side and five on the 

 north of the nave in imitation of the Norman work 

 of the eleventh century. In the churchyard, at 

 the east end of the church. Bishop Sumner and 

 Mrs. Sumner are buried. 



The Chapel of Ease, of St. Mark, Upper Hale, 

 in the north of the parish, built in 1884, is of four- 

 teenth century design, with a turret and three bells. 



RUN FOLD (Runvale) tithing is east of Farnham 

 and south of Badshot Lea, on the road leading to 

 Guildford. Runfold House to the north and 

 Runfold Lodge to the south mark roughly the old 

 extent of the tithing, otherwise it has lost import- 

 ance and is represented only by a few small houses. 



It seems in all probability that Runfold was 

 never so important as most of the other tithings of 

 Farnham. Whereas in the subsidy rolls of the 

 fourteenth century the average amount contri- 

 buted by each tithing of Farnham was a little 



1*3 The church, built in 1862, was 

 reconsecrated after enlargement 21 De- 

 cember, 1869, by Samuel Wilberforce, 

 Bishop of Winchester. In 1881 it was 

 again enlarged. 



1** Added in 1860. 



"5 Assize R. No. 877, m. 53. 



"» Eccl. Com. Ct. R. Bpric. of Win- 

 ton, Crondall Hund. Bdle. 78. 



1" Eccl. Com. Rent. R. Bpric. of 

 Winton, Bdle. 22 onwards. 



"8 Pipe R. Bpric. of Winton, 1207- 

 8, under Farnham, De Purchasiis. 



595 



"9 Manning and Bray, iii. 141. 



1™ Captain Bacon, information. Mr. 

 Peckham Williams is said to have in- 

 troduced the famous White Vine Grape 

 Hop, the finest of the Farnham hop 

 plants. ' 



