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��STOKE JUXTA GUILDFORD

��STOKE JUXTA GUILDFORD

��Stochae (xi cent.) ; Stok (xiii cent.).

Stoke is a parish lying across the River Wey just below Guildford. It is bounded on the west and north by Worplesdon, on the east by Merrow, on the south by St. Martha's, Shalford, and the Guild- ford parishes. It measures 3 miles from north-west to south-east, and i miles from south-west to north- east. The total area of the whole parish is 2,301 acres. It extends from the ridge of the chalk down east of Guildford across the Thanet and Woolwich beds, the London Clay, and the sand and alluvium of the Wey Valley. It is intersected by the river, and by the railways and roads which enter Guildford from the north and east. The Cobham and Guild- ford line, with a station in the London Road, Guild- ford, in Stoke parish, was opened in 1885. Stoke is now largely a town or suburban parish, or parishes, for by the Local Government Act of 1 894 it was divided into two parishes. Stoke Within is part of the borough of Guildford, and contains 252 acres. It comprises the southern part of the old parish. Stoke next Guildford is the more outlying suburban and country part of the parishes, and contains 2,049 acres. No Inclosure Act is known, but Stoke Fields, now built over, suggest common fields by their name.

Neolithic implements have been found in the parish.

Wood Bridge is a brick bridge on an old line of road where a bridge has long existed. It was re- paired by the neighbourhood and not by the lord of the manor." It is now a county bridge and was rebuilt in brick in 1847-8.' When the property of Stoke Park and Stoke Mills was purchased by Mr. Aldersey in 1780 the road ran between his house and the east end of Stoke Church, and passed the river by a ford with a long narrow wooden bridge by the side of it for use in flood time. He diverted the road to the west end of the church, where it now is, and built Stoke Bridge of brick.

On the site of Stoughton Manor House are the remains of the old moat. Stoke Park is now the seat of Mrs. Budgett. It is not the site of the old manor- house ; this was at Warren Farm on the chalk down cast of Guildford, where the courts used to be held. The name Stoke Park was not used in 1762,* when the place was called the Paddocks. Mr. Dyson, the owner, laid out the park about that time. Stoke Hill was the seat of the late Rev. F. Paynter ; Woodbridge Park is the seat of Mrs. Blount. Mrs. Charlotte Smith, who died at Elstead in 1806, and was well known formerly as a poetess and writer, was a native of Stoke, and has a monument in the church.

Stoke Church Institute in the Foxenden Road was opened in 1895. There is a Roman Catholic chapel (St. Joseph's) in Chertsey Street, where also is a

��Primitive Methodist chapel. There is a Baptist chapel in Martyr Road, and one in Commercial Road.

Stoughton is an ecclesiastical parish formed from Stoke in 1 89 3. There is a Wesleyan chapel founded in 1895. The cemetery in Stoughton was purchased and laid out in 1880-2. It comprises 8 acres.

Stoughton Barracks are the de'pbt of Regimental District No. 2, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions of the Royal West Surrey. Guildford Union Work- house is in Stoke Within.

Stoke (Church) School was built in 1856 and en- larged in 1895. Sandfield School (Provided) was opened in 1901. Stoke Hill School (Church) was built in 1870, Stoughton School (Provided) in 1885, and St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic) in 1885.

At the time of Domesday STOKE MANORS formed part of the royal demesne.' It continued to be a Crown possession until the time of King John, who granted it to the Bishop of London and his church of St. Paul. 5 By 1222, however, the rights of St. Paul's in Stoke had apparently ceased to exist, since there is no mention of the manor in the Domesday of St. Paul's drawn up about that date. 6 The Bishops of Lon- don continued to be the lords of the manor of Stoke ' until the 1 6th century, when Bishop John Aylmer released it to Queen Elizabeth. 8 It seems to have been granted shortly afterwards to Thomas Vyncent of Stoke D'Abernon, who in 1587 conveyed it to Laurence Stoughton,' lord of the manor ol Stoughton in Stoke, q.v.

The manor of STOUGHTON in Stoke seems to have originated in land called ' Stocton" which was part of the manor of Stoke, and was afforested under Richard I." King John granted it with Stoke to the Bishop of London," and it was continuously held as of that manor."

The first record of immediate lords occurs in 1 345, when Henry de Stoughton settled the manor on himself and his wife Joan and their heirs. 13 In 1415 Walter Stoughton, probably son of Henry, died seised of the manor, leaving a son Thomas, then twenty years of age, to succeed him. 14

The manor apparently passed through Gilbert son of Thomas 15 to Laurence Stoughton, 18 who held it in the 1 6th century. 17 He died in 1571, leaving a son Thomas, 18 who survived him only five years. 19 The manor had in 1575 been settled in tail male on Laurence son of Thomas on his marriage with Rose

���Six or LONDON. Gules Pwo s'wordl of St. Paul crossed having hilts and fomeli or.

��1 Pleat of the Manor, East. 5 Ric. II, R. 14.

Diary of Mr. J. More-Molyneux, J.P.

Rocque's Map. * y.C.H.Surr. i, 296.1. 6 Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), 147 ;

Cart. Antiq. MM, 18} A, II ; A, 6 ; AA,47;SS, 13.

W. H. Halt, Dora, of St. Paul, i et scq.

��1 Cal.Cloie, 1232, p. 40 ; 1348, p. 353 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 32 Edw. I, no. 90.

8 Feet of F. Div. Co. Eat. 33 Eliz.

9 Ibid. SUIT. Trin. 29 Eliz.

10 Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.) ii, 56. U Ibid.

la Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no. 1 1 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), civ, 49.

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��u Feet of F. Surr. 19 Edw. Ill, no. 20. 14 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no. n. " Publ. Harl. Soc. xliii, 85. 11 Ibid. ; ton of Gilbert. l ~ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxxvii, 84.

" Harl. Soc. Pull, xliii, 86.

18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxix, 81.

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