EFFINGHAM HUNDRED
��GREAT BOOKHAM
��The road (called Paternoster Lane in Mickleham) which passes Bagden Farm * and leads to a ford in the Mole in Sir Trevor Lawrence's grounds, is the probable line of the great west and east road along the Downs, sometimes now called the Pilgrims' Way.
Bookham Grove, south-west of the church, is the seat of Mr. Sydney C. Bristowe ; Old Dene of Mr. C. E. Cuthell ; Millfield House of Mrs. Hansard ; Merrycourt of Sir Stephen Mackenzie, M.D. Sole Farm, on the west side of the village street, is a pic- turesque old-fashioned gabled house. Miss Fanny Burney, after her marriage with M. D'Arblay, lived for a short time in a cottage at Bookham.
The kennels of the Surrey Union Foxhounds, of which Mr. F. G. Colman is master, are in Great Bookham.
Extensive open fields existed, and were inclosed by an Act of 1 8 z i . The award is dated 1 9 March 1822.'
An infants' school was built in 1830, and was enlarged in 1882. A National school with residence for the master was built in 1856 by Viscountess Downe, the Hon. Lydia Dawnay, and the Hon. P. Dawnay, in memory of William Henry, Viscount Downe.
Ranmore is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1 860 from the parishes of Great and Little Bookham, EfEngham, Dorking, and Mickleham. It lies upon the high ground of the chalk range, but extends into the lower ground towards Dorking and Mickleham. The church, St. Barnabas, is in Great Bookham.
��Near the church is a village dispensary and training school for domestic servants. Ranmore Common is a large open space on the brow of the hill.
The schools (National) are private property of the owner of Denbies and were built in 1858, an infants' department being added in 1 874.
The earliest alleged mention of MANORS GRE4T BOOKH4M is in a charter dated 675, by which Frithwald, Sub- regulus of Surrey, and Bishop Erkenwald granted to Chertsey Abbey twenty dwellings at ' Bocham cum Effingham.' 4 The grant was confirmed by Offa in 787, by Athelstan in 933,* by Edgar in 967, and by Edward the Confessor in 1062,' and in the Domesday Survey the manor of ' Bocheham ' is in- cluded in the possessions of the monastery. 9 In 1537 it was surrendered to the Crown by John, Abbot of Chertsey,' with the rest of the monastic lands, and in 1550 was regrantedto Lord William Howard, 10 son of the Duke of Norfolk, who settled it on his second son, Sir William Howard," in whose line it remained until 1 80 1, when it was sold by Richard Howard, last Earl of Effingham, to James Laurell." In 1811-12 James Laurell and his wife jointly conveyed the manor to John Harrison Loveridge, 1 * probably in trust for Holme Sumner, who in the Court Rolls appears as lord of the manor until 1828. Within the next year it was acquired by Louis Bazalgette, who died in 1830. It was evidently bought from his executors " by David Barclay, who was lord of the
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��* Terrier of Bookham Glebe, 1638 in registers.
- Sir John Brunner'i Rel n 1903.
4 Kemble, Cod, Difl. dccccclxxzviii ; Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 64,349. But thil charter it doubtful. See in Chertsey.
��* Kemble, Cud. Difl. ccclxiii. ' Ibid, dxxxii. 7 Ibid, dccciii.
8 f.C.H. Surr. i, 3090. ' Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. VIII.
> Pat. 4 Edw. VI, pt. i*.
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��11 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclni, no. 1 54 ; G.E.C. Comflete Pierage, iii, 3260.
12 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 41 Geo. III.
13 Ibid. Hil. 52 Geo. III. S Eastwick.
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