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 GODALMING HUNDRED

��PEPER HAROW

��The registers date from 1572.

The church plate includes a cup and paten cover of 1669, a credence paten of 1672, a paten of 1718, a cup of 1730, and a flagon of 1793 all of silver.

The place where the present church stands upon the side of the town opposite to 'Old Haslemere' (vide supra) was called Piperham, and the church here is the ' capella de Piperham ' which with Chiddingfold is mentioned in 1 1 80 and 1185 in the Salisbury Registers. 56 A deed of 1486 in the possession of Mr. J. W. Penfold shows that the road from the upper end of Haslemere Street leading to the present church then led to Piperham Church. A fragment of a Court Roll at Loseley of 6 & 7 James I mentions the road as out of order leading from ' Pep- perham's church in Haslemere by Pilemarsh.' Pile- marsh is between the present church and Haslemere Station. There probably was another church, now gone, on East Hill, whence the tradition of seven churches. Also in 1458 John Piperham leased to John Boxfold of Haslemere his tenement called Piper- hammes next the church in Haslemere on the under- standing that Boxfold should perform all services due to the king, the lord of the fee, and to the church.* 7 There was also a tenement called Howndleswater, rtherwise Peperham in Haslemere, of which John Bridger was possessed when he died in February 1 5 80- 1. 58

The parish was a chapelry in the parish of Chid- dingfold, but in 1363 Bishop Edyngton of Winchester granted licence for the consecration of a long-existing

��chapel and burial-ground at Haslemere in place of the old churchyard near the old church. 69 The dis- trict possessed parish officers and registers of its own, and though a rector was usually, till recently, instituted to the rectory of Chiddingfold with Haslemere, a separate curate was often in residence. It has been in all respects a separate parish since 1869.

The history of the advowson is ADVOWSON coincident with that of the mother- church of Chiddingfold till 1868. In that year a rector was instituted to the churches of Chiddingfold and Haslemere on the understanding that he should resign the latter when called upon to do so. This he did in 1869, when Haslemere became a separate rectory.

Smith's Charity is distributed as in CHARITIES other Surrey parishes.

James Bicknell by will 27 Novem- ber 1633 ' ft the produce of certain land, of about 1 3*. \d. a year, to the churchwardens for the poor. James Gresham, lessee of the tolls of the market, left the tolls and an almshouse in 1676. The almshouse exists, but is now unendowed. In 1816 Mr. Shudd, a solicitor of the town, left 350 to the poor.

There is a cottage hospital founded by John Pen- fold, opened in 1898, in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of the late Queen Victoria; a convalescent home, founded and maintained by Jona- than Hutchinson; and a holiday home at East Hill, established by Mrs. Stewart Hodgson in 1884, for the reception of poor girls from London.

��PEPER HAROW

��Pipereherge (xi cent.); Piperinges (xiii cent.); Pyperhaghe (xiv cent.).

Peper Harow is a small parish lying west of Godalming town. It measures about 4 miles from north to south, about 2 miles in breadth in the northern and under a mile in the southern part. The soil is exclusively the Lower Green Sand, except for alluvium in the valley of the Wey, which runs in a winding course across the parish from west to east. The southern part of the parish includes Ockley Common and Pudmoor, extensive heathlands connected with Thursley Common and Elstead Heath. In the northern part of it is Peper Harow Park, the seat of Viscount Midleton, extending to both sides of the Wey, and reaching on the southern bank into Witley parish. The area is 1,301 acres of land and 19 of water. The road from Farnham to Godal- ming crosses the parish from west to east. The population is under 200.

The charter of Edward of Wessex to the church of Winchester, c. 909,' gives the boundary of Elstead and of Peper Harow as it now exists in part : ' Aerest act vii dican to Ottanforda, swa to Sumaeres forda, (now Somerset Bridge), Souan to Ocanlea (Ockley Common).'

The park and grounds at Peper Harow contain

��some fine timber, notably some cedars of Lebanon, which were put in as seedlings from pots in 1735.*

In the park are the remains of Oxenford Grange, a grange of Waverley Abbey. The fifth Viscount Midleton employed Mr. Pugin to build an imitation 13th-century farm here, and a gatehouse to the park in the same style in 1844, and in 1843 Mr. Pugin built an arch of similar design over the Bonfield Spring in the neighbourhood a medicinal spring of local repute, said by Aubrey to be good for all eyesores and ulcers. This land of Oxenford is now counted in Witley parish.*

A conveyance to Sir Walter Covert in 1605 speaks of the land in the ' Parish and Field ' of Peper Harow. But the end of ' the Field ' is not known. There was no Inclosure Act.

PEPER HAROW was held by Alward MANOR under Edward the Confessor, and after the Conquest carne into the possession of Walter, Governor of Windsor Castle, son of Other, ancestor of the Windsors, 4 to whose honour of Windsor the overlordship of the manor belonged. 6 The actual tenant of Peper Harow in 1086 was a certain Girard,* one of whose successors, Osbert of Peper Harow, sold Peper Harow to Ralph de Broc. His son-in-law Stephen de Turnham received a confirmation of the

��M Rtg. of St. Osmund (Rolls Ser.), i, 268, 460. Thit would be the present, i.e. 301, 303. ' Add. Chart. 27757. Piperham, church.

1 Kemble, Codex Difl. 1093, v > '7^-

1 MS. at Peper Harow.

8 For a further account of it ee under

��88 Exch. Mint. Accti. 34-5 Hen. VIII, Div. Co. R. 64, m. 19; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxcvii, 64.

" Winton Epit. Reg. Edyngton, ii,

��Witley.

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��. Surr. i, 323.1. Chan. Inq. p.m. 27 Edw. Ill (lit no*.}, no. 61; ibid. I Ric. Ill, 23; ibid. (Ser. 2), x, 97.
 * Tata di Nit/ill (Rec. Com.), 220;

. Surr. i, 313*.

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