A HISTORY OF SURREY 



is a silver paten of the same date, probably part of 

 the same gift. There is also a silver paten v/ixh 

 London hall-marks of 1741, and an inscription to 

 the effect that it was bought by the subscriptions 

 of the parishioners in 1742, I. Phipps, Minister ; 

 R. Paine, J. Gamblin, Churchwardens. A silver 

 flagon with London hall-marks of 1716 is presum- 

 ably likewise part of the gift of Henry Salmon. 



The registers are in a book presented by Mr. 

 Salmon in 1710, but written up since 1649. Some 

 old parish books perished in a fire at the Vicarage. 



In 1692 Mr. William Salmon had a lease of the 

 tithes of Frensham, and in 1694 he put in Mr. 

 Joseph Munday as curate at ^£20 a year. About 

 sixteen years Ijefore that William Jennings had 



rented the tithes of the tithing of Churte, and 

 about seven or eight years before 1692 Jacob 

 Williams was lessee of the tithes of Fren- 

 sham.>>» 



In 1725 Mr. Joseph Munday, curate, in reply 

 to the inquiry of the bishop, stated that the popu- 

 lation was near 600, that the parish church of 

 Farnham (sic) was supplied by a curate who had 

 his nomination from Mr. William Bishop, lessee 

 of the tithes, that there was no school, that Smith's 

 charity, for the poor not receiving parish relief, 

 was distributed annually, that Mr. Bishop and his 

 son were the only resident gentry. No answer is 

 returned about chapels, nonconformists or papists, 

 so presumably there were none.'!" 



SEALE 



Scale lies about two miles east of Farnham. 

 The parish, including Tongham, contains 2,993 

 acres. It is bounded on the west by Farnham, on 

 the north by Ash, on the east by Wanborough and 

 Puttenham, on the south by Elsted. From the 

 Hog's Back, above Scale, a wonderfully extensive 

 and beautiful view, extending into six counties, may 

 be obtained on a clear day. Here no doubt was 

 the beacon recorded in the parish books. To the 

 north across arable and pasture land, over the hills 

 and commons of Woking, Ascot, and Weybridge, 

 can be seen the distant Chilterns. To the west the 

 heights above Aldershot and Hale cut off the more 

 distant view, but as the eye travels south, the line 

 of chalk hills may be followed above Bendey and 

 Alton to Selborne. From Wolmcr Forest rising 

 gradually eastward Hindhead cuts the distance, 

 whilst east of this again, between Hindhead and 

 Hascombe, is spread the blue distant Weald of 

 Sussex, extending to the south chalk downs. 

 Further east again the hills rise above the spires of 

 the Charterhouse, to Holmbury and Leith Hill, 

 the highest point in Surrey. Due east the white 

 road, running the length of the narrow ridge, rises 

 until it reaches its summit above Compton, whilst 

 below Crooksbury stands up, and beyond, in the 

 middle distance, Puttenham, Thursley, and El- 

 sted commons, and the Devil's Jumps stretch 

 in graceful undulations of gorse, heather, and fir 

 trees. The main road, along the Hog's Back, 

 goes through the parish, and a road, instead of a 

 bridle road, has lately been opened from Putten- 

 ham, and goes on to Farnham south of the chalk 

 range. This is on the line of the mediaeval 

 (reputed) Pilgrims' Way, which ran south of the 

 chalk range in West Surrey. The old tracks 

 across the heaths, in the southern part of the 

 parish, have been replaced by main roads. The 

 valley in which Scale lies is the division between 

 the chalk and the sand, and the change in vege- 

 tation on either hand is very marked, beech, elm, 

 and yew, and the typical chalk flowers grovsring 



121 Exch. Dep. (+ Will, and Mary, 

 Mich. No. 1 2 ) in the Churt Tithe Case. 

 '** Returns at Farnham Castle. 

 * Hint. Nruii, 27 June, 1857. 



plentifully on the slope of the chalk down, the 

 opposite rising ground being covered with fir trees, 

 gorse and heather. The north-west corner of the 

 parish is traversed by the London and South West- 

 ern Railway, from Guildford to Farnham, on which 

 there is a station at Tongham. The southern part 

 of the parish is in the bishop's manor of Farnham, 

 the rest in those of Poyle and Tongham ; Poyle 

 Park is in the north, Hampton Park on the eastern 

 border of the parish. 



The south-west boundary of the parish runs 

 over the summit of Crooksbury Hill (534 feet). 

 On Crooksbury are marks of ditches, but whether 

 old enclosures to protect the fir trees when planted, 

 or made for any other purpose, is uncertain. 

 North-east of the summit 220 yards, and 100 feet 

 below it, is a circular ditch with the earth thrown 

 up inwards making a low tumulus, rather over 

 100 feet across. It is locally called the Soldiers' 

 Ring. A discovery of bronze implements near 

 this was made about 1857.' 



The enclosure award was made in 1849, as for 

 the rest of the old parish of Farnham. 



TONGHAM (Twangham xiii. cent.) lies in the 

 north-western corner of the parish, north of the 

 Hog's Back. In the population abstracts from 

 i8ii onwards Tongham appears as a hamlet of 

 Scale. In the rent rolls of the Bishops of Win- 

 chester from the thirteenth century to the six- 

 teenth, 2 in the subsidy rolls of the fourteenth cen- 

 tury,' and in the court rolls from the fifteenth to 

 the eighteenth century,* Tongham was counted 

 as a separate tithing of Farnham manor, and in- 

 cluded Scale. It was evidendy an important 

 tithing, since in the fourteenth century it was 

 assessed at £i 8/. Jj-J. in the subsidy roll.' and in 

 the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries 

 the tithing man presented 6s. 8i. twice a year at 

 the court leet of Farnham.* 



The modern village is large and populous, the 

 houses being grouped in a long stretch on either 

 side of the principal street. 



2 Ecd. Com. Rent R. Bpric. of Win- 

 ton, bdles. 22-54, 



3 KC.H. Surr. i. 442. 

 * Ecd. Com. Ct. R. Farnham, bdle. 



79, no. 28, etc. 



616 



s y.C.H. Surr. i. 442. 



« Eccl. Com. Ct. R. Farnham, bdle. 

 87, No. 6 ; bdle. 92, No. i ; bdle. 98, 

 No. 2. 



