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��created Lord Grantley in 1782. His family held Wonersh Park till 1884, when it was sold to Mr. Sudbury, husband of Mrs. Sudbury, the present owner. The house contains some pictures of note, and i a good example of early I yth-century architec- ture, inclosing the remains of a much older house. On the floor above the state rooms is a long gallery, and the staircase is so placed as to suggest its being part of the original plan. The western wing contains a fine suite of reception-rooms. Sir Fletcher Norton added a library and billiard-room of noble propor- tions, and further additions in the shape of an eastern wing were made about 1836.

The 'Grantley Arms' public-house is a fine old timbered house, with curiously arched wooden heads to the gable windows. It may be of 15th-century date in part. Plunks, another early house, has a double-gabled front, dating from the end of the i;th or the beginning of the 1 6th century. There is a quatrefoil barge-board here also, and doubtless good half-timber work is behind the present plaster face. The joist-board, of good section, is also a noticeable feature. The rear of the house is of more ordinary character, but a picturesque medley of roofs, gables, and chimneys.

Other old cottages and houses lie scattered around the lanes and hamlets in Wonersh parish, including good cottages at Blackheath ; a long timber farm- house at Halldish, or Aveldersh ; Northcote Farm, Hull Hatch, an old timber-framed house, and Reel Hall.

The schools (National) at Norley Common were built in 1840 and enlarged in 1884. The infant school at Lawns Mead was opened in 1890, that at Blackheath in 1892.

The ecclesiastical parish of Shamley Green was separated from Wonersh in 1 88 1. A Congregational chapel was built there in 1870.

Wood Hill, in the same parish district, is the resi- dence of Captain Sparkes, R.N., C.M.G., J.P., one of the principal landowners in the whole parish. Longacre is the residence of Sir Charles Cros- thwaite, K.C.S.I. ; Willinghurst of Captain Ramsden, D.L., J.P.

The original Wonersh Schools, built in 1 840, are in this part of the parish.

Wonersh is not named in Domes- Mj4NORS day. All the subsequent manors were included in the manors of Bramley and Shalford.

TJNGLEr or GRE4T T4NGLET (Tangeley, xiii cent.) was originally parcel of the manor of Bramley." In 1238-9 Walter of Tangley and his wife Maud were dealing with land in Worplesdon." In the same years Ernald son of Richard of Tangley was proved to be nephew and heir of John of Burningfold. 13 This Ernald held a messuage and a virgate of land in Bramley of William Brokere and his wife Edith." About 1315-16 Sir Robert Fitz

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��Pain held ' a tenement called Tangelee ' by lease from Roland Vaux, who held it for life by right of his wife, then deceased. 15 Tangley then came into the posses- sion of the Burley family. John Burley and his wife Agatha were dealing with land in Wonersh, and the service of Richard Tigenor, William Loxley,and others in 1 367-8." In 1542 another John Burley and his wife Katherine were seised of Tangley." In 1545 John Burley entailed the re- version of it, after the death of himself and his wife Sybil, on Richard Carrill of Bram- ley. 18 John son of Richard

Carrill inherited the manor after the death of Sybil, who survived her husband. 19 Thenceforward its de- scent is identical with that of the Carrills' manor of Bramley till 1677, when, at the partition of John Carrill's estates, it was assigned to his daughter Lettice, wife of John Ramsden.* In 1693-4 they sold it to John and Leonard Child." In 1759 John's great- grandson Charles Searle sold the manor to Sir Fletcher Norton," with whose estates it has since descended."

In 1 808 court leet and court baron are mentioned as appurtenant to the manor."

The manor-house, where Hester wife of John Carrill lived during her widowhood," is very ancient. It lies in the northern part of the parish, and has been made the subject of innumerable paintings, and has also been well described and illustrated.* 6 The moat by which the present house is surrounded would appear to have been intended for purposes of defence as well as to drain away the water from the house, which lies somewhat low. Remains of stone buildings have been discovered. Within late years the house has twice been enlarged, having been rescued by its late owner, Mr. Wickham Flower, from the somewhat neglected state into which it had sunk as a mere farm-house, and surrounded by flower-gardens and covered walks. The south front, built in 1582 by John Carrill, can challenge comparison with any ancient house of its class in Surrey. This is not, however, the earliest part of the house : although subdivided into three floors in 1582, the hall, of the middle of the 1 5th century, with its original open roof, remains. It was of four unequally spaced bays, and the framed principals of the roof can be seen in the bedrooms. They consist of heavily-cambered tie-beams, I ft. 8 in. deep in the centre by I o in., having under them a four-centred arch of solid timber, 4 in. thick, serving as braces to the massive story-posts, loin, by 9 in., on which the beams rest. A short king-post, with an arched brace 3 in. thick from each face, rises from the centre of the beam to support the collar and Icon beams. The width of this hall was 20 ft., and its

��11 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. II, 63, where Tangley is said to be ' in eadem tenura de Bromlcgh."

12 Feet of F. Surr. 23 Henry III.

18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Hen. Ill, no. 77.

14 Feet of F. Surr. 9 Edw. I, 1 2. Everard son of Richard Tangley is said to have been the heir of John of Bromfeld, 1288-9, Chancellors' R. 17 Edw. I, 20.

14 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. II, no. 63.

��> Feet of F. Div. Co. 41 Edw. Ill, 676. Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 33 Hen. VIII.

18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxv, 74.

19 W. and L. Inq. p.m. 10 Jas. I, xlvi, 9. Exch. Spec. Com. 6485.

a Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 4 & 5 Will, and Mary.

M Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, no.

28 See under Bramley.

M Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, no.

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��u It was said to be much decayed in 1670-1. Exch. Dep. Hil. 21-22 Chas. II, 26.

86 By the late Mr. Charles Bailey (Surr. Arch. Coll. iv, 278) ; Mr. Ralph Nevill, F.S.A. (Old Cottage and Domestic Architec- ture in South-west Surr. 82, &c.) ; Messrs. Davie and Green (Old Cottages and Farm- houses in Surr.) 5 and in Country Life (2 1 Jan. 1905).

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