The history of Effingham in Surrey

The history of Effingham in Surrey by Monica Mercy O"Connor Download PDF EPUB FB2

Genre/Form: History: Additional Physical Format: Online version: O'Connor, Monica Mercy. History of Effingham in Surrey. Effingham, Effingham Women's Institute, Welcome to the website of Effingham Local History Group (ELHG).

Our village of Effingham in Surrey has a long and fascinating history – events that have taken place here and the characters involved in them become ever more astonishing the more we learn about them.

Effingham appears in Domesday Book of as Epingeham. It was held by Osuuold (Oswald) from Chertsey Abbey and Richard Fitz Gilbert. Its domesday assets were: 4½ ploughs, 5 acres ( ha) of meadow, herbage and pannage worth 18 hogs. It rendered £ct: Guildford.

Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Effingham within the selected text.

This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

InJohn Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Effingham like this: EFFINGHAM, a village, a parish, and a hundred in Surrey. The parish church of St. Lawrence has been greatly restored and extended, but with its square tower remains a focal point.

Nearby and in the older parts of the village are many traditional flint walls of importance to the local character. Click here to see the catalogue of the St Lawrence, Effingham Parish Records ( ) held at the Surrey History Centre.

Effingham Park: Photos, maps, personal memories and local books of Effingham Park. Francis Frith The UK’s leading publisher of local photographs since Sign-in or Register. Surrey Effingham Park Effingham Park, Surrey Photos, Maps, Books and Memories of Effingham Park.

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Any City of Surrey library; Historic Stewart Farm. An informative and historical overview of Effingham County, Illinois on CD with the full O.

Baskin & Co., The History of Effingham County, Illinois book edited by William Henry Perrin including biographical information for families. An important resource for the study and research of Effingham County, Illinois history (including.

Surrey. There were places in the county of Surrey in Domesday Book. In the Domesday Book ofEffingham Hundred included the above and two unknown settlements of Driteham and Pechingeorde.

It was a royal hundred, and in a document of the reign of Edward I is stated to have been farmed by all its various owners altogether formerly for half a.

Thinking of visiting the Lovelace Bridges. Download the printable trail sheet: PDF Lord Lovelace was an enthusiastic forester. In order to facilitate riding through the woods and extracting the timber, he embarked on a programme of bridge building. Parish History [edit | edit source].

EFFINGHAM (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Dorking, hundred of Copthorne and Effingham, W. division of Surrey, 3¾ miles (S. by W.) from Leatherhead. Resources [edit | edit source] Civil Registration [edit | edit source]. Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July to the present day.

Old Map of Surrey. An old map of Surrey, hand-drawn in for the renowned cartographic publisher Samuel Lewis. These superbly detailed maps provide an authoritive and fascinating insight into the history and gradual development of our cities, towns and villages.

The maps are decorated in the margins by selected Frith photographs. Parish Registers from Surrey from filmed at several different archives. These records can contain name, parents, birth date, marriage date, spouse, death date and other information. England, Surrey Parish Registers, — Effingham, Guildford, Surrey, KT24 II Vault, 30 Yards North West of Tower of Church of St Lawrence Effingham, Guildford, Surrey, KT24 II Nos 3 4 5 and 6 (Church Cottages, Including Rookery Cottages) Effingham, Guildford, Surrey, KT24 II Lodge/Yard of the Red House Effingham, Guildford, Surrey, KT24 II The Red House.

The Effingham Hundred or Effingham Half-Hundred is a hundred of Surrey, ambiguous as to whether it be treated as a hundred in its own right or as a half-hundred, and if the latter then grouped with Copthorne Hundred to the east and north-east.

Effingham on its own terms is the smallest hundred in Surrey, in both area and population, the latter be in   Effingham Surrey Fire and Rescue Service was called to the scene at pm Man, 23, arrested on suspicion of possession of 'bladed article' after armed police response in Bookham.

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This book is an excellent review of the history of Effingham County. It is not an indepth study but goes into some specifics. If you are interested in Effingham history, this would be a great place to start. In addition, I can readily imagine this book would be a good review of how most counties on the prairie s: 2.

The Domesday Bookwhich was a survey for taxation purposes, makes the first known distinction between the parishes of Great and Little Bookham. If it is assumed that there was no separate parish at the time of the charter of Edward the Confessor in As the Domesday Book makes no reference to there being a church in Little Bookham, then the church must have been built sometime.Long be­fore Eff­in­g­ham was named by the Sax­ons, a pre­his­toric track now called the North Downs Way or Pil­grims' Way was an im­por­tant pre­his­toric thor­ough­fare in Britain.

Part of this an­cient road forms the south­ern bound­ary of Eff­in­g­ham parish.21 hours ago  Effingham Eye: History Group’s First 10 Years, Trustee’s Resignation, Birdwatcher’s Visit, Parish Council Latest Chris Dick offers some information on the local history group, the resignation of a trustee, some unhelpful behaviours, a birdwatcher’s visit, parish council titbits and of course much more.

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