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��was built in 1856."" The Presbyterian Church of England chapel, built in Grove Crescent Road in 1883, has no connexion with this original Noncon- formist body. Another early body of Nonconformists in Kingston was that of the Quakers. George Fox often preached here, the meetings being held in the house known as King John's Dairy. In 1769 they had a burial-place in Eden Street 1M and there they still have a meeting-house. The Wesleyans also have one chapel in Eden Street, another being at Kingston Hill. There are also four Baptist chapels : in Union Street, Queen Elizabeth Road, Cowleaze, and London Road. The first represents a secession from the Indepen- dents in the latter part of the 1 8th century. The Primi- tive Methodists have chapels in Victoria and Richmond Roads, while the Brethren meet in the Apple-market.

Heathen, now Eden Street, is said to have taken its name from being the Jews' quarter, and was so called when the earliest extant rentals were made. This and London Street are full of quaint houses, some timbered, some built of wood.

Next to the Grammar School chapel in the London Road are almshouses of red brick, six on either side of a projecting middle bay with a gabled head. The houses are of two stories with modern door and window frames and tiled roofs. In the middle bay a square-headed doorway with cemented rustic quoins opens into a small common room. On the first floor are three oval windows, and in the middle a tablet inscribed ' CHARITATI SACRUM Anno Salutis 1668 being the Gift of WILLIAM CLEAVE Alder- man of London for Six Poor Men and Six Poor Women of this Town for whose Maintenance for Ever He hath given A Competent Revenue and also Caused these Buildings to be Erected at his own Expense for the Habitation and Convenience of the said People.' On a cartouche over are his arms : Argent on a fesse between three wolves' heads razed sable three molets or ; and crest, an eagle with a ser- pent in its beak. Above this is a sundial with the initials and date W C 1668.

The Technical Institute in Kingston Hill Road and the Polytechnic in Fife Road provide education in technical subjects, and secondary education is cared for by the Grammar and the Tiffin foundation schools, and there are several elementary schools.

Norbiton (Norbinton, xiii cent. ; Norbeton, xiv cent.), which lies towards the north end of London Street, is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but occurs early in the I3th century when William de Wicumb and Sailda his wife quitclaimed 6 acres of land there to Hamon son of Ralf and William son of Siward. 104 The hamlet was part of the manor of Kingston, and the common which lay to the north was under the control of the bailiffs and freemen, 10 ' who used the timber there for ' the mending, repair- ing and entreteyning of the wayes ' as being appur- tenant 'to the King's Royalty, the grant whereof they have in their fee farm.' "" The right of felling the timber was upheld by an order in Council in 1 543," though violently opposed by the inhabitants

��of Norbiton, and was of some value, for the Court of Assembly ordered, in 1680, 'that a book should be bought to enter ye accounts of ye wardens of Norbi- ton Common in, and that the same be left with the Town clerk to enter as other accounts.'""

In the East Field of Norbiton in the reign of Edward III lay Walepot, Adewellerthe, Kyondes- croft, Crokkeres Forlang, and Wateryngcroft, 1 " and the common of Norbiton is mentioned as the northern boundary of a road which had ' le Holefur ' on the south." 1 The common lands were inclosed under an Act of Parliament obtained in 1808,"' and from that date the population grew so rapidly that the new ecclesiastical district of St. Peter was formed in 1842, the parish of St. John the Baptist, Kingston Vale, in 1847, the consolidated chapelry of St. John the Evangelist in 1873, the parish of St. Paul, King- ston Hill, in 1 88 1, and the parish of St. Luke, Gibbon Road, in 1 890."* The population numbered 9,063 in 1 90 1. 1 " From the Kingston Road, King- ston Hill, and Park Road, innumerable streets have radiated, and nearly the whole space here between the Hogsmill river and Richmond Park is now occupied or about to be developed. Manor Gate Road takes its name from the ' Manyngate ' mentioned with Tarendeslane in the reign of Richard III. 114 A road from Latchmere towards Manningate is mentioned in 1605,"" Hog Lane Gate in 1683."'

Among the larger houses in Norbiton are Kenry House (Earl of Dunraven), Coombe Hurst (Mr. R. C. Vyner), Warren House (Gen. Sir A. H. F. Paget), Coombe End (Mr. B. Weguelan), Coombe Wood Farm (Lord Archibald Campbell), Coombe Warren (Mr. L. Currie), Coombe Court (Earl de Grey), and Latchmere House (Mr. P. Jackson).

The Elementary Schools are St. Peter's, Cambridge Road, 1852 ; St. Paul's School, 1871 ; and St. John the Evangelist's School, 1873 ; the Bonner Hill Road School was built in 1906, and schools in connexion with the churches of St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, and the Roman Catholic Church of St. Agatha. In Church Road the Guild House School is for physically defective children.

Surbiton (Subertone, xiii cent. ; Subeton, xiv cent.) is not mentioned in Domesday Book, but was a hamlet in 1179 when the men of Surbiton, repre- sented by John Hog and about twenty others, granted to the Prior and convent of Merton land in Grapel- ingham for twenty-one years, with a preference, under which a fresh lease was made in I2O3. 118 The grange of Edith de la Stronde is mentioned in I229, 119 and in 1296 Isabella widow of William le Haselye granted her curtilage to John le Poter with the hedge and ditch towards the field and with the wall towards the highway. 1 " In 1417-18 seven- teen tenements here paid i lit. n\J. quit-rent to the bailiffs and freemen of Kingston, the rate here as elsewhere being zd. per acre. 1 " Until the inclosure award made for Kingston in 1838 under authority of an Act of Parliament of 1 808 '" about 1 90 acres remained commonable in Surbiton, and extended

��us Waddington, Surr. Congregational Hiit. 233 (from the Church Bk.).

104 Doc. of Corp. Quit Rent Bk. 1769.

1M Feet of F. Surr. 3 Hen. Ill, no. 17.

Doc. of Corp. Ct. Bk.

W Aca of P.C. (new er.), 1541-7, pp. 154-5.

" L. and P. Htn. fill, xviii (l), 893.

��109 Doc. of Corp. Ct. of Assembly Bk. 7 July 1680.

110 RentaU and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 629.

111 Ct. Bks.

11 Local Act, 48 Geo. Ill, cap. 134. lu Limi. Gax. 6 May 1873, p. 2249 ; 10 Jan. 1881, p. no. '" Pop. Rtt. 1901.

493

��' Rental, and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 629. "Add. R. 26599.

W Corp. Ct. of Alterably Bk. 20 May 1683. lu Surr. Arch. Coll. viii, 14.

119 Feet of F. Surr. 13 Hen. HI, no. 22. Add Chart. 17273. '" Land. MS. 226, fol. 64. '-' Local Act, 48 Geo. Ill, cap. 134.

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