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��public path leading down the north side of the hill it is obvious. The name, moreover, of the hill was Elde- bury Hill. Under this name a chapel of St. Anne was built upon it (vide infra),

The house St. Anne's Hill, whether built on the site of the chapel or not (vide infra), is famous as the home of Charles James Fox. It was copyhold of the manor of Chertsey Beomond. Almners Barns south of the hill and Monk's Grove east of it were both possessions of the abbey, the former the endowment of the Almoner. It is now the residence of Major-General Berkeley. St. Anne's is now the residence of the Hon. Stephen Powys, Monk's Grove of Mr. J. St. Foyne Fair. William Eldridge was a local bell-founder, and a house a few yards to the north of the church on the opposite side of the street is stated to have moulds in the cellars which he used for his foundry, and his family also lived there. Docket Point was the seat of the late Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, bart., M.P.

In 1800 an Act was passed for inclosing land in the manors of Walton-on-Thames and Walton Leigh, which included 565 acres of waste in the parish of Chertsey. Of this 60 acres were left for the use of the commoners. The award is dated 1 8 December 1804." In 1808 another Act was passed for the inclosure of waste and common fields in the manor of Chertsey Beomond.* By statute 14. George III, cap. 114, there was an inclosure of common fields in the manor of Laleham lying in Chertsey in Surrey, but the meadow called Laleham Borough was not inclosed, and was specially excepted in the Act of 1808.

A church-room was built in 1897 as a memorial of the Diamond Jubilee. St. Anne's Mission Hall was presented by Mr. Tulk in 1890.

The cemetery is in Eastworth Road, with a mortuary chapel of St. Stephen, consecrated in 1851.

There is reason to believe that a Nonconformist congregation of Chertsey represents a Presbyterian con- gregation licensed under the Indulgence of 1672." A chapel was built near the back of the Swan Inn in 1725, which was enlarged in 1823. A new chapel was built in 1876, and the body is now Congrega- tional, not Presbyterian." The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1863, and renovated in 1897. There are also Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.

The School of Handicrafts in Eastworth Road was built by Mr. T. Hawksley, M.D., in 1885, and en- dowed by him also at a total cost of 25,000 for the elementary and industrial training of boys. There are about 100 boys there.

Sir William Perkins by deed in 1725 founded a school for the education and clothing of twenty-five poor boys and twenty-five poor girls. The value of the property left having largely increased, a scheme was approved in Chancery in 1819 for rebuilding the school and making it available for the education in all of 2 50 boys and 150 girls, thirty-five of the former and thirty of the latter being clothed. Thorpe, Egham, and Staines children could be admitted by the trustees if Chertsey children were not excluded. An infants' school was built in 1845 and conveyed to the Perkins Trustees in 1890. The whole schools were rebuilt in 1889-92. They are Church of England schools,

��and by the scheme of 1819 the head master was if possible to be a clerk in holy orders.

Longcross is a hamlet of Chertsey, 3$ miles west of the town. It was made an ecclesiastical district in 1847. The school (Church) was founded in 1847 and enlarged in 1852. The Rev. W. Tringham, vicar, resides at Longcross and is the chief land- owner.

Botleys and Lyne, a hamlet of Chertsey, is 2 miles south by west. The school was built in 1895. Botleys Park, the residence of Mr. Henry Gosling, Almners Barns, now called Almners, mentioned above, Foxhills, the seat of Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, and Fan Court, the seat of Sir Edward D. Stern, are in this district.

Ottershaw and Brox is an ecclesiastical district ; the schools (Church) were built in 1870.

There are in the district three homes of the Ministering Children's League, for the rescue of destitute children, established by the Countess of Meath in 1888, 1890, and 1895 respectively. There is another home for children established in 1884 by Mrs. Goldingham of Anningsley Park, in memory of her husband.

Messrs. Fletcher have extensive nursery grounds here.

Ottershaw Park is the seat of Mr. Lawrence James Baker, J.P. ; the present house was built by Sir Thomas Sewell, Master of the Rolls. Anningsley Park is the seat of Mrs. Goldingham. It formerly belonged to Mr. Thomas Day, the once well-known author ofSandford and Merton. Ottermead is a seat of the Earl of Meath ; and Queenwood is the seat of Mr. R. H. Otter, J.P.

Addlestone, properly Atlesdon or Atlesford, is an ecclesiastical district which may be considered to have outstripped the original centre of the parish, Chertsey, in importance. This ward contains the largest number of people of the three wards into which the Chertsey Urban District is divided, and the number of new houses shows the growing character of the neighbour- hood.

Ongar Hill is the seat of Mr. Henry Cobbett. It once belonged to Admiral Sir Hyde Parker the elder, who died in 1782. Sayes Court was an old house, the property of a family named Moore from the 1 7th to the end of the i8th century. It became in 1823 the property of Sir Charles Wetherell, Recorder of Bristol, who rebuilt it apparently, or altered it very much.

Another ecclesiastical district of Addlestone, called Woodham, was formed in 1902 on the boundaries of Chertsey and Horsell. A Baptist chapel was built in 1872, and a Wesleyan chapel in 1898. At Woburn Park is the Roman Catholic College of St. George, directed by Josephite Fathers, for the education of the upper and middle classes. There is a chapel, and a farm is attached to the college. It was removed from Croydon to Woburn Park in 1884.

The workhouse of the Chertsey Union is in Addle- stone, and was built in 1 836-8. The chapel was added in 1868. The Village Hall was built in 1887 by the Addlestone Village Hall Company. The Princess Mary Village Homes at Addlestone were established by the exertions of the late Duchess of Teck (Princess

��19 Blue Bk. Incl. Aviardt. 90 Tithe Commutation Returni at Board of Agric.

��V.C.H. Surr. ii, 40. w It wa endowed by Mr. William White with land at Byfleet in 175 2, and

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��by Mr. Thomas Willatts with 850 in 1837.

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