• DIRECTORY.J SURREY. WRECCLESHAM. 156~
Terry James, wheelwright & miller Wallis William Oliver, farmer, Wood st Wheeler Tho.s. Royal Oak P.H. Wood st (water), Perry hill Warner W alt. }and agt. to C. P. Shrubb Wilcox William, blacksmith Turner Sarah (Mrs.), shopkpr.Rickford Warren Bani, organist & teacher of Win ton Wm. Hy. HaTe, farmr. Rnssel pl Walker Charles, farm bailiff to C, P. music, Oaklands, Rydes hill • Worplesdon Working Men's Club (Rev. Shrnbb esq. Merrist wood Weeks Wm.marketgardeuer, Littlefield D. C. Tovey; president) WOTTON LOW HILL and WOTTON UP HILL. WoTTON is a parish, 3 miles east from Gomshall and Shere the Duke of Norfolk K.G. In Wotton parish is LEITH HILL, station on the South Eastern railway, and 26 from London, s miles south from Dorking, the highest elevation in the in the South Eastern division of the county, first division of south-east of England, being g66 feet above. the level of • the hundred of Wotton, to which it gives name, Dorking the sea: from Leith Hillthe Tillingbourne stream takes its petty sessional division, union and county court district, rise. Upon one of the points of this hill Mr. Richard Hull, rural deanery of Dorking, archdeaconry of Surrey and dio. a former owner of Leith Hill Place, with the consent of Sir eese of Winchester, 3 miles west-south-west from Dorking: John Evelyn, built in I766, a to.wer, whence the sea is visi..1 this parish is about 9 miles in length from north to south ble through an opening in the South Downs; Mr., Hull (extending to the Sussex border), but seldom exceeds a mile was, by his own particular desire, buried in this tower, and • in breadth and is still narrower towards the southern ex- within the building on the east wall is a tablet of Portland· . trem1ty. The church of St. John the Evangelist is an an- stone inscribed, " Underneath this floor lieth the body of cient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting Richard Hull esq. of Bristol, who departed this life January of chancel, nave, soutb porch, two monumental chapels, I 8th, I772, in the 83rd year of his age;" for many years transept, and a western tower containing 3 bells : the most after the building of the tower it was open to the public, in interesting object in the church is the tomb of John Evelyn, accordance with the intention of Mr. Hull, but as this pri- who died 27 February, I7o6: there are I 50 sittings. The vilege was abused, and the tower had become a harbour for register dates from the year IS~· The living is a rectory, smugglers, a subscription was raised about the year 1795' average yearly Yalue from tithe rent-charge £4so, net in~ among the gentry inordertomake it uninhabitable i the whole come £497, with I4I acres of glebe and residence, in the interior of .the tower was then filled with stone and cement gift of W. J. Evelyn esq. J.l'. and held since I87S by the and the entrance door built up, and it was still in this state Rev. George Vaughan Chichester B.A. of Trinity College, when the tower and land adjoining were purchased by the Dublin. The Wotton and Abinger Cottage Institute was present lord of the manor, W. J. Evelyn esq. ~ so solid was founded for the benefit of the poor of these two parishes ; the cement that as it was found impossible to re-open. the during the winter month", entertainment.s, lectures and tea old entrance and interior staircase, a staircase tower was meetings are provided, and there is a lending library of 622 b\}ilt by the side of the old tower in order to. make it avail volumes. There are charities belonging to the parish of the able for the original purpose : the tower --commands exten annual value of £s6 for distribution. Wotton House, the sive views over portions of Surrey, Sussex, Rants, Herks, seat of William John Evelyn esq. n.L., J.P. consists of an Oxford, Bucks, Herts, Middlesex, Essex and Kent and, by irregular and heterogeneous mass of buildings, chiefly inter- the aid of a glass, a portion of Wiltshire can be seen. The esting a8 having been the birthplace (October 3I, 162o), of principal landed proprietors in the parisli are the Duke of John Evelyn, the celebrated author of "Sylva :" th'e man- .Norfolk K.G. W. J. Evelyn esq. D.L., .J.P. (who is lord of the sion is pleasantly situa+ed in a valley surrounded by planta- ~anor), the trustees of the late Lee Steere esq. Roland tions, with an artificial stream flowing near it: the muni- Vaughan Williams and Mrs. Wedgwood. The soil is l~hiefly ment room, which also serves as a library, was built in 1864, sand; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and after the design of H. Woodyer esq. on the site of the west oats &c. The area is 3,780 acres; rateable value, £4,I84- wing (destroyed by fire about I8oo); among the fami.lyand The population in I88I was 692. local relics are the three extant portraits of John Evelyn: in 0AKWOOD is an ecclesiastical district formed out of the the picture gallery are placed the most in~resting of the parishes of Wotton and .abinger and will be found under a pictures that yet remain of John Evelyn's collection; and separate heading. here is preserved the prayer book used by King Charles on . the scaffold (January 90, 1649), and presented by Archbis- BROADMOOR is also in this parish, 2 miles south-east. hop Juxon to Sir Richard Brown, father-in-law to John Parish Clerk, Edwin John Wood. Evelyn. Other seats in the parish are Tanhurst, near Leith Letters through Dorking arrive at 6.30 a.m. PILLAR Box, Hill, commanding an extensive view, now occupied by Wotton-gate, cleared at 10.30 a.m. & 7 p.m.: sunday, I:& The Dowager Marchioness of Hertford ; J ayes, the seat noon. Dorking is the nearest money order offica of Mrs. Lee Steere; Camp Hill House, the seat of Mrs. National Schools (mixed), built in I874, enlarged in 1885, Evelyn, and Tillingbourne, of George Bonner esq. The for I3ochildren; average attendance, 70; Joseph Griffin,. Tillingbourne estate in this parish belongs to his Grace master • Bonner George, Tillingbourne Steere Mrs. Lee, Jayes park Childs Charles, grocer Chichester Rev. ueorge Vaughan B.A. Wedgwood Misses Dewdney Alfred, market gardener Rectory 1 Dibble Daniel, Wotton Hatch inn Evelyn Mrs. Camp Hill house 1 · COMMERCIAL. King William, farmer, Laylands Elelyn Wm. John F.R.G.s., F.s.A.,D.L., t Bacon William, farmer, Park farm Roffey Henry, grocer l.P. Wotton house; & Oxford & Cam- 1 Bell Rt. farm bailiff to Geo. Bonner esq Ryde Edwin, blacksmith bridge & Athenamm clubs, London sw Bergersen Gulbrand, estate agent toW. Smithers Joseph, carpenter HertfordEmilyMarchioness of,Tanhurst J. Evelyn esq. Home farm Sparkes James A. farmer Lockbart Ross Raonult Robert Hamil- Bust Robert, grocer · Wotton & Abinger Cottage Institute ton, Kempslade Charman William, farmer (G. W. Paxon, sec) • WRECCLESHAM is a small village and tithing, and two men and two women of not less than 6o years of age; in I84o was formed into an ecclesiastical parish from the each inmate receives ss. 6d. per week. In the centre of the civil parish of Farnham, from which place it is I! miles village is a well, covered in, fenced and kept locked, except south-west, near 'the river Wey, in the South Western from 7 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m.; there is a plentiful division of the county, Farnham hundred. petty sessional supply of spring water and the residents pay one penny division, union and county court district, rural deanery of weekly for it. Willey, the seat of Col. Henry Torkington, Farnham, archdeaconry of Surrey and diocese of Winchester. is a.n 6ld mansion iil the Italian style, standing amidst park 'fhe village itself contains about 300 houses, but the district and woodland in the valley of the Wey, and on the extreme includes Middle and Upper Bourne and Boundstone (an border of the county, 2 miles from I<'aTnham or Bentley extensive heath), Runwick, Willey, Ridgeway, Dippenhall stations. The principal landowners are G. F. Roumieu, H. and Shortheath. The church of ~t. Peter, rebuilt in I877, Potter and George Trimmer esqrs. Hops are extensively is an edifice of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, grown here. The population in I88I was I, 184. ( nave, aisles, north porch and a western tower containing 2 Parish Clerk, James Lord. bells: there are sittings for soo persons. The register dates • from the year I84o. The living is a vicarage, net yearly PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Mary Atfield, receiver. Letters re value £290, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of ceived from Farnham at ().so a.m. & I.3o p.m. ; dis Winchester, and held since I890 by the Rev. Charles Henry patched at II.3o a.m. & 7 p.m. The nearest money Keable M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. There is a Work order & telegraph office is at Farnham, but postal orders ing Men's Club and Institute with reading and other rooms are sold here r :> and a bar for the sale of coffee and refreshments : the National School (mixed), erected in I8S4. for 240 children ; larger room is used for parish purposes. Here are four now on roll 2so; avernge attendance, 220; George Robert almsbouses, erected and endowed by Charles Knight esq. Waterson, master ;•Miss Mabel M. Deverson & Miss E. and Elizabeth his wife, of Runwick, in the year I86I, for Newman, assistant & infants' mistresses • Goodall Geo . .T.P. Pine ridge,Boundstne j Keable Rev. Charles Henry M,A. The 1Phillip8 Wm. Bower house, Up. B:mrne Hall Henry, Rock house .. 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