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��and his widow, who had remarried, died in 1662. The property then passed through several hands ; Viscount Shannon bought it in 1718, and during his tenure the Rt. Hon. W. Pulteney (created Earl of Bath in 1742) lived there. 14 Lord Shannon died in 1 740. He married Grace Senhouse, and their daughter Grace, Countess of Middlesex, died without issue and left Ashley Park to her cousins Colonel John Stephenson and his sisters in succession. The last of these died in 1786, when the property went to Sir Henry Fletcher, bart., another cousin. His son Sir Henry Fletcher, bart., very considerably altered the house.

Walton Grove, standing in a small park, is the seat of Mrs. Cababe ; Holly Lodge of Mrs. Dyer.

At the northern end of the Manor Road is a red- brick house with brick pilasters forming a Tuscan order on two sides of the building. It is dated 1732.

Hersham (Heverisham) is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1851 from the southern part of Walton-on Thames. It is, roughly, the part of the original parish south of the London and South Western Rail- way line. A chapel of ease (Holy Trinity) was built of yellow brick in Anglo-Norman style in 1839. The present church of St. Peter was built by Mr. J. L. Pearson, R.A., in 1887. It is of brick and stone in 1 3th-century style. It has a nave and aisles, of five arcades, chancel, transepts, and a western tower and spire. The site was given by Lieut.-Col. Terry of Burvale.

There is a Congregational church in the village built in 1839, restored in 1858, and enlarged in 1889.

An infant school was built when the first chapel of ease was opened in 1839. The present school was built in 1863 and enlarged in 1882.

The parish hall of Hersham was built by a com- pany in 1885 and enlarged in 1892.

Pain's Hill is the residence of Mr. Alexander Cushney. It was celebrated as one of the earliest examples of natural landscape gardening on a large scale. It was laid out by the Hon. Charles Hamilton, youngest son of James sixth Earl of Abercorn, Receiver-General of Minorca 174358. The extensive grounds extend also into the parishes of Cobham and Wisley, and owe much to their natural position on the slopes of the high ground about St. George's Hill above the Mole Valley. The present house was built by the next owner Benjamin Bond Hopkins, who died in 1794. A later owner, 1804-21, was the Earl of Carhampton, who as Colonel Luttrell had opposed Wilkes in the Middlesex election.

Burwood Park, the seat of the Misses Askew, was rebuilt before 1809 by Sir John Frederick, bart., M.P. for Surrey, who owned it from 1783 to 1825. It had belonged to a family named Latton, the earliest of whom to come into Surrey was John Latton, steward -of the manor of Richmond, 1694. He for a time held the manor of Esher and died 1727. His arms, Party argent and sable a saltire erminees and ermine counterchanged, used to be in a window taken from the old house. Burwood House is the seat of Mary Louisa Countess of Ellesmere ; Silvermere of Mr. Archibald Seth-Smith ; Burvale of Mr. J. B. Heath ; Burhill Park is now used as a golf club.

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Oatlands Park is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1869 out of the north-western part of Walton on Thames. The church of St. Mary was built as a chapel of ease in 1861. It is of stone in 13th-cen- tury style, with a chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and bell-turret. There are fourteen memorial win- dows, a marble pulpit, and a marble reredos set up as a memorial to the Rev. G. B. Watson, vicar 1885-7.

The Working Men's Club was built in 1884 on a site presented by Mr. F. B. Money-Coutts, J.P., and the parish room in 1887.

The school was built in 1882.

The old palace at Oatlands, acquired for the Crown by Henry VIII, was in Weybridge parish, and with the manor is described under Weybridge, but the greater part of the land was in Walton.

Henry Pelham Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln, extended the park and laid out the grounds in 1 747 and the following years, when Woburn Park, Weybridge, Pain's Hill, and Oatlands were considered the finest collection of experiments in a romantic style of land- scape gardening in England. The Duke of York, son of George III, resided here from 1791 to his death ' in 1827, and he and his duchess were extremely popular in the neighbourhood. She died here 6 August 1820 and is buried in Weybridge Church. A monument by Chantrey was placed there to her, and a column was erected to her memory on Weybridge Green by the inhabitants in 1822. The park was sold in lots for gentlemen's houses in the middle of the i gth century, and now forms a residential neigh- bourhood. The house is converted into the Oatlands Park Hotel. Foxholes is the seat of Miss Martineau ; Templemere of Lt. -General Sir Arthur Lyttelton- Annesley.

In the time of Edward the Confessor MANORS Azor held WALTON Manor, with a mill, meadow land, woods, &c. William the Conqueror granted it to Edward of Salisbury, ancestor of the Earls of Salisbury. It passed as part of the dowry of his daughter Maud to Humphrey de Bohun, nicknamed ' Humphrey with the beard.' 16 Humphrey son of Humphrey and Maud married Margery eldest daughter of Miles Earl of Hereford. His grandson Henry was created Earl of Hereford in 1199, and this manor remained in the tenure of the Bohuns, Earls of Hereford," until 1373, when Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, died seised of it, leaving two daughters, Eleanor and Mary, his co-heirs. 18 Eleanor married Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester. Mary became the wife of Henry of Boling- broke, eldest son of John of Gaunt, whoobtained themanor of Walton as part of her dower, and was created Duke of Here- ford in 1397. Mary died in 1394. 18 After Richard II was deposed Bolingbroke ascended the throne by the title of Henry IV. The manor descended to his grandson, Henry VI, who in 1422 as-

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��15 Bp. Willis's Vlsi.. ..VZ4. III.no. 39 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. II Edw. Ill 18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 46 Edw. Ill (lit

18 y.C.H. Surr. i, 3Z4*. (znd nos.), no. 50 ; 37 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), nos.), no. 10.

!" See Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 54 Hen, no. 10. " Doyle, English Btranagt, ii, 166, 316.

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