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��responsible for the wooden bridge, contributing 400 to the first expense. There was a wooden bridge, subject to the same restrictions in use, on the road to Ockham and East Horsley, which was replaced by a brick bridge about the same date.

A fishery at Cobham Bridge was granted by Charles II to Thomas Wyndham, whose wife Eliza- beth had assisted the king's escape after the battle of Worcester. 4 Down Mill is in the southern part of the parish, in Downeside (see below) ; Cobham Mill is close to Church Cobham. Both are on the Mole.

There was a fair on St. Andrew's Day, the patron saint of the church, changed to 1 1 December since new style came in, and another on I May. The Inclosure Act was among the first in the county ; the common fields were inclosed by an Act * procured by Mr. Thomas Page of Poynters in Cobham, who had just bought the manor. Again in 1793 the waste was inclosed, with the exception of 300 acres left for pasturage and turf-cutting, mostly about Fairmile.

On the high ground of Cobham Common was one of the semaphores in the line from London to Ports- mouth.

St. John's Mission Church was built in 1899 by Miss Carrick Moore of Brook Farm, in memory of her father Mr. John Carrick Moore.

St. Matthew's, Hatchford, consisting of a chancel and nave in 14th-century style, was built in 1858.

There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Baptist chapels in the parish.

The cemetery at Cobham Tilt was opened in 1883.

The Public Hall was built in 1887.

The Old Church Style House was formerly used as a home of rest for ladies of slender means, and later as a home of rest for poor women of all classes. It is an old house, restored, by the churchyard gate. A modern inscription in the house says that it was built in 1432 and restored in 1635.

Cobham Park is the seat of Mr. Charles Combe, D.L., J.P. Close to it are the paddocks and stabling of the Cobham Stud Company. Cobham Park was formerly known as Downe Place, and that part of the parish was called Downeside, from a family of that name who are recorded in the Visitation of 1623. John Downe died in 1656 (see Charities). A Mr. John Bridges built a new house here, and sold it to the eminent soldier Sir John Ligonier in 1750.* Sir John was created, in 1757, Viscount Ligonier in the peerage of Ireland, in 1763 Baron Ligonier of Ripley in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and in 1 766 Earl Ligonier. His property extended into Ripley. He died in 1770, aged 91, having served in the army since the reign of William III. His nephew and heir to his Irish peerage died in 1782, and Downe Place was then sold to the Earl of Carhampton, who in 1 807 sold it to Mr. Harvey Christian Combe. 7 * The estate has since remained in his family. The present owner, Mr. Charles Combe, D.L., J.P., was born in 1836, and served in the 3rd Bombay Cavalry in Russia

��and in the Mutiny. The house was rebuilt by him in 1874.

Cobham Court is on the site of the original manor- house. It was reserved out of the sale of the manor in 1708, and is now the seat of Mr. Philip Warren. Brook Farm was built on the land of a farm belonging to Mr. Porter by Colonel Edward Leatherland in 1800. In 1807 it was bought by Captain (after- wards Admiral Sir Graham) Moore, R.N., brother to Sir John Moore of Corunna, and son to Dr. Moore 'of Zelucco.' It was bought with the prize-money of the Spanish treasure ships, the capture of which by Captain Moore gave an excuse for war in 1 804. It descended to his nephew Mr. John Moore, and is now the seat of that gentleman's daughter Miss Carrick Moore.

Hatchford, the property of Mrs. C. Stone, is on the site of an older house built by Mr. Lewis Smith in the 1 8th century. Miss Isabella Saltonstall, who endowed the living, died there in 1829. Lord Francis Egerton built a new house about 1 842, which is now occupied by Sir Henry Samuelson, bait.

Fox Warren is the seat of Mrs. Buxton ; Sandroyd House, Fairmile, of Mr. C. P. Wilson ; Knowle Hill of Mr. John Early Cook ; Poynters of Mrs. Mount ; Brackenhurst was the seat of Mr. Edward Harbord Lushington, J.P.

Fairmile, which with Ockshot is becoming a residential neighbourhood reaching into Cobham, Esher, and Stoke D'Abernon parishes, appears from Bowen's map to have been originally the name of a straight stretch of the Portsmouth road north-east of Street Cobham.

The manor of COBHAM for many MANORS centuries formed part of the possessions of the Abbot and convent of Chertsey. Frithwald, subregulus of Sur- rey, and Bishop Erkenwald are said to have granted to Chertsey Abbey in 675 'ten manias at Coveham,' 8 and this grant was confirmed and aug- mented by Edward the Con- fessor in 1062. At the time of the Domesday Survey the abbey held Cobham, including three mills. 10 Henry I gave the abbot a grant of free warren in the manor, with leave to keep dogs, and to in- close Cobham Park at his pleasure for hunting purposes." not however allowed him by

���CHERTSEY ABBEY.

Party or and argent St. Paul' i sword, its hilt or, trotted with St. Pttcr't keyt gulei and axure.

��This privilege was the Quo Warranto

Commissioners," but in 1285 the king granted a new charter of free warren." The monks from time to time obtained additions to their estate in the shape of small parcels of land acquired by gift or exchange. 14 In 1537 they handed over the manor to the king in return for $,ooo. u It continued to belong to the Crown till 1553, when Queen Mary granted the reversion of the manor, then in the hands of lessees,

��4 Cal. S.P. Dam. 1668-9, p. 323.

1 19 Geo. Ill, cap. 15.


 * 33 Geo. III. cap. 69.

" Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 73 5.

7 "The Earl of Carhampton wa not admitted to the copyhold of the manor, held by the second Lord Ligonier's daugh- ters, or their assigns, till 1802. But Bray

��was steward of the manor in 1782, and is therefore probably right in the date which he gives for the sale of Downe Place i Cobham Ct. R.

8 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, no. 39.

Kemble, Cod. Difl. iv, no. Siz.

10 f.C.H. Surr. i, 307*.

11 Cart. Antiq. OO., 4.

443

��11 Plae. de Quo ffarr. (Rec. Com.), 744.

18 Chart. R. 13 Edw. I, pt. ii, no. 58.

Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 19 Hen. Ill, no. 12 ; Mich. 5 Edw. I, no. 34 ; Pit. 12 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 18.

u Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. VIII.

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