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whether it was so or not is by no means clear. In Domesday Book it is 

 entered as Waleton, and it is there stated that the king held the manor 

 in demesne, and that it was rated at ;£'i2 in the time of Edward the 

 Confessor, and then at iJio. Two mills at thirty shillings are also 

 mentioned in that book as being at this place. 



Henry II. granted' certain lands at Wallington to Maurice de Creon, 

 /to which Guy de la Val came into possession on his marriage with the 

 daughter ; but later, being one of the barons who rebelled against King 

 John, he was deprived by that monarch of all his lands at Wallington, 

 and these were then granted to John Fitz-Lucy, who however forfeited 

 them by remaining in Normandy. The king then bestowed them on 

 Eustache de Courtnay. In Henry the Eighth's reign we find that the 

 Manor of Wallington had passed into the hands of Sir Nicholas Carew, 

 and after that nobleman was attainted of high treason, into those of 

 Sir Edward Dyniock and Sir James Harrington. This last gentleman 

 alienated them to Sir Francis Carew, son of the one beheaded, and in 

 this family they remained until 1683, when a lease for the term of 

 five hundred years was made by Sir Nicholas Carew for the purpose 

 of raising a fortune for his younger sons. The lease was acquired in 

 1726 by Elizabeth Bridges, sister of William Bridges, M.P. for 

 Liskeard. Under her will it passed through successive ownerships to 

 various members of her family, and ultimately to William Bridges, Esq., 

 who in 1 78 1 became sole owner by a family arrangement. Under his 

 will it devolved eventually upon the late John Bridges, Esq., who, 

 dying in 1865, left it to his son, Nathaniel Bridges, Esq., the present 

 owner. The latter has recently bought up the nominal reversionary 

 interest vested in the representatives of the Carews, and has thus con- 

 verted the leasehold estate into one in fee simple. 



In the year 1867, the present Lord of the Manor built the new 

 church at Wallington on a site which was also his gift, .aided to 

 some extent by two anonymous donors. The church was conse- 

 crated on the 28th September, 1867, in the name of the Holy Trinity; 

 and on the 20th December following, the new district chapelry of 

 Wallington (embracing about 521 acres) was constituted by an order in 



