A HISTORY OF SURREY 



about 1 701, leaving his son James Tichborne, of 

 Aldershot and Frimley, as his heir. In 1713 James 

 Tichborne mortgaged the manor of Tongham to 

 Samuel Johnson." Again in 1720 he mortgaged 

 half the manor to Sir Charles Vernon and George 

 Vernon.'^ Between 1720 and 1725 James Tich- 

 borne evidently sold the manor to a Mr. Richard 

 Smith, who held the court of the manor in the 

 latter year.»3 In Michaelmas 1790 Thomas Smyth 

 was dealing writh the manor." In 1819 Richard 

 Smith was still holding part of the manor, for in 

 that year Thomas Barrett and Jane his wife, and 

 Richard Smith, conveyed the whole to Stephen 

 Boyce.35 Stephen Boyce died in, or previously 

 to, the year 1826, leaving Tongham Manor to his 

 wife Elizabeth, who on 7 and 8 August, 1826, con- 

 veyed it to her only son Charles Barron, son of her 

 first marriage with Charles Barron, of Aldershot. 

 Charles Barron the younger, who built Aldershot 

 Place, died 25 September 1859, and left Tongham 

 to his elder son Major Charles Stephen Barron. 

 He died unmarried 6 March, 1881. His only 

 brother, Colonel Fenwick Boyce Barron, 3rd 

 Dragoon Guards, survived him, but died without 

 issue. Charles Stephen Barron left Tongham to his 

 second cousin once removed, Francis John Barron, 

 who died 23 November, 1903, leaving a widow 

 and family." 



The manor house lies at the south end of the 

 village ; it is rebuilt or completely modernized. 



TONGHAM GRANGE. The property 

 called Tongham Grange had belonged to Waverley 

 Abbey, and followed the rest of the property of the 

 Abbey at the dissolution.^' It passed by exchange 

 to Sir John White in 1566,38 and his son Robert 

 acquiring Tongham Manor,'" it henceforth passed 

 with Tongham Manor, and was bought along with 

 the manor by Mr. Barron. Grange Farm, south- 

 west of the village, preserves the name. Manor 

 Farm in the middle of the village is the original 

 farm of Tongham Manor. 



In 1866 Tongham was formed into an ecclesi- 

 astical district. The church of St. Paul, erected 

 the same year by Mr. John Back, of Aldershot Park, 

 stands in the middle of the village. It is built of 

 chalk, and consists of a plain nave and chancel with 

 an apse, the windows having pointed arches. Until 

 1899 it had a turret and spire with only one bell, 

 but in that year a separate wooden turret wdth 

 thirteen tubular bells was presented by Mr. H. M. 

 Chester, of Poyle Park, in memory of his mother. 

 The stone font was carved by the late Colonel 

 Luard in his eighty-third year. 



It seems as though the manor of POTLE (Puille 

 xiii. cent.) may formerly have been parcel of the 

 manor of Tongham. At least, if it was a separate 

 ' manor' it seems to have followed the same descent 

 as Tongham in the fanuly of Poyle from the thir- 



teenth to the fifteenth century. The family of 

 Poyle held lands both in Tongham and Guildford ; 

 a ' manor ' called Poyle in Tongham, and another 

 called Poyle in Guildford. It is difficult to dis- 

 tinguish the two, the only clue is that the former 

 seems to have been held of the bishop, the latter 

 of the king. What appears to have been Poyle in 

 Tongham was conveyed in 1440 to John Gaynes- 

 ford, who also held the manor of Tongham." 

 In 1502 by a fine and recovery Poyle in Tongham 

 was sold to Ralph Vyne.*' In 1580 Stephen Vyne, 

 probably a grandson of Ralph, conveyed it to 

 Robert White, who also held Tongham.*' This 

 was evidently only a mortgage, since the next year 

 Stephen Vyne and Jane his wife conveyed the 

 manor to Sir Nicholas WoodroflFe," Alderman of 

 London, who had been 

 Lord Mayor in 1579. In 

 1582 Robert White re- 

 leased his right to the said 

 Sir Nicholas." On the 

 death of Sir Nicholas in 

 1598 the manor passed to 

 his son Sir David, on 

 whose death in 1604 it 

 passed to his son Robert.*' 

 On the death of Robert 

 in 1639 the estate passed 

 to his son Thomas, who 

 died without issue after 

 1658, leaving it to his bro- 

 ther George. The latter 



died in 1688, and was succeeded by his son George, 

 who died in 1713. From him the manor passed 

 to his nephew George, who on his death without 

 children in 1 779 left his great-nephew William 

 Billinghurst, grandson of his sister Letitia and 

 William Billinghurst, his heir. The latter, on 

 taking possession, changed his name to Woodroffe. 

 He was High Sheriff in 1792, and the estate was in 

 chancery for some time owing to his expenditure 

 in that office. The estate passed, on his death 

 in 1824, to his brother 

 George, Colonel in 

 H.E.I.C.S. who adopted 

 the name of Woodroffe, 

 and died s.p.m. 13 Janu- 

 ary, 1854. Shortly after 

 his accession to the pro- 

 perty the Manor House and 

 Park were let to Colonel 

 Mangles, H.E.I.C.S., for 

 a term of twenty-seven 

 years. Colonel Mangles 

 made considerable altera- 

 tions to the house. On 

 Colonel George Woodroffe's death Poyle passed 

 under a settlement to his great-nephew Henry 



Woodroffe. GuUs a 

 cbeveron silver with three 

 barrs* beads razed gules 

 thereon and a chief party 

 wavy fessivise sable and 

 silver. 



Chester, Ermine a 

 chief sable ivith a griffon 

 passant silver. 



31 Feet of F. Dlv. Cos. Hil. 1 1 Anne. 



32 Ibid. Surr. Trin. 6 Geo. I. 



" Manning and Bray, quoting rolls 

 now lost. 



3* Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 30 

 Geo. III. 



« Ibid. East, 59 Geo. III. 



M Information, E. J. Barron, Esq., 



F.S.A., and will of Charles Stephen 

 Barron, proved 12 April i8Si. 



3' See Waverley, p. 623. 



3* See Pitfold manor. 



38 Vide supra. 



*» Rental Harl. MS. 392, 97b. 



" De Banco R. Mich. 18 Hen. VII. 

 962, m. 415. 



618 



" Recov. R. Mich. 22-23 Eliz 



" Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 23 Eliz. 



" Ibid. Hil. 24. Eliz. 



*s By a Recov. Roll Mich. 19 Jas. I. 

 Robert apparently mortgaged the manor 

 when he came of age to Francis Clarlu, 

 his sister's husband, and George Dun- 

 combe. 



