In the last quarter of the twentieth century domesday book was edited and. Domesday book is the oldest government record held in the national archives. It was approximately 34 metres 112 ft in length and 22. How surrey towns and villages got their names including. It was acquired by queen victoria in 1882 and broken up in the 1920s. Searching for cannibals in woking, surrey, england chris. One response to the normans are coming right through surrey.
Things to do in woking with children family travel explore. John the baptist, founded in the 10th century, was rebuilt in the 19th. We have searched for business suppliers in woking, surrey a town with an approximate population of 105,367, that at the census in 2011 had a working population aged between 16 and 74 of 54,429 people in work, and have found 7 suppliers of services such as wall art, accountants, citizens advice bureau, financial advice, local. How much was the whole worth in 1066, and how much now 1086 note that not every piece of information is recorded for every entry in domesday. One of the larger individual towns in surrey, woking has an ancient origin, but in its current form it is a relatively new town, with an unusual origin in a nineteenth century necropolis project. Send was always the dominant village, but ripleys church shows construction of circa 1160 and supporting feet of fines and ecclesiastical records mention the village at the time. The commissioners also gathered details of the livestock held by each landholder, but this was not included in the final domesday volumes. The national archives is the home of domesday book, the oldest surviving public record. Guildford was a settlement in domesday book, in the hundred of woking and the county of surrey.
The domesday book of 1086 records that two manors and a church existed in wanborough before the norman conquest. The value of wokings woodland is further increased when you look at the entry for osbern, bishop of exeters manor thought to be at horsley although listed in domesday as. Woking is an ancient town mentioned in the domesday book as far back as 1083 and was held by, amongst others, king william the conqueror. Bell barrow on cockcrow hill, historic england list entry summary 1012204 surrey domesday book archived 30 october 2007 at the wayback machine a b c h. The following pages include domesday placenames and landowners, and beneath some are links to websites containing the local history of that place. It was the seat of the archbishops of canterbury from the 11th to 19th century and a large medieval market town.
Domesday due as tax is probably only one third to one tenth of the actual number wokings woodland being valued at 3 pigs i. The plotted data is an extract from the open domesday book. If you have a local history site that you would like to be included on these pages please get in touch via the contact page. River wey is a medieval church mentioned in the domesday book in 1086. In 1994 woking football club won the fa trophy, winning it again in 1997. History of woking project gutenberg selfpublishing. Woking appears in the anglosaxon chronicle entry for 777, recording that in that year on a petition of brorda the ealdorman, king offa of the mercians freed the church amongst the wokingfolk wocingas from obligations to king, earl and bishop so that brorda could grant it to the minster of medehamstede. The normans first entry into surrey would have been from the north east, from the direction of london. In the domesday book it appears as wochinges, being held in 1086 by king. The village lay within the godley hundred, a saxon administrative area chobham appears in domesday book as cebeham.
In fact there are two domesday books little domesday and great domesday, which together contain a great deal of information about england in the 11th century. The church itself holds in stoke hundred cottingham. The village starts immediately east of the a3 but the lands extend to the river wey in the west where it has a large millhouse. The first draft was completed in august 1086 and contained records for,418 settlements in the english counties south of the rivers ribble and tees the border with scotland at the time. Uploaded by the open domesday project, released under ccbysa by professor john palmer and george slater. Our vision is to lead and transform information management, guarantee the survival of todays information for tomorrow and bring history to life for everyone. Brookwood hospital was opened on 17 june 1867 under the title brookwood asylum. Da wo dr friide vom koonig broche het, wo raub oder iibruch begange het, isch fur vogelfrei erklaart worde. These were little domesday covering norfolk, suffolk, and essex, and great domesday covering much of the remainder of england except for lands in the north which later became westmorland, cumberland, northumberland, and the county palatine of.
In 2011, there were 36 builtup area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in surrey, shown in the table below. In the book, woking is obliterated soon after the martians arrive on horsell common. Eight years later zouch was sheriff of surrey 16691670. Though wokings earliest written appearance is in domesday book, it is mentioned as the site of a. May 10, 2018 woking, the place of the mad, the bad and the dead. Intressants us em domesday book, wo mit eme grundbuech dirakt nut z due het.
Read on for more information including lots of photos, costs and our version of things to do in woking with children. Domesday book is a manuscript record of the great survey of much of england and parts of. Ockham appears in domesday book of 1086 as bocheham. Woking means settlement belonging to the followers of wocc or wocca. In 1846, acts were passed for making two railways from guildford. Domesday book home the domesday book one of the most valuable records of the uks past history. Also in soanes library is a copy of owen mannings the history and antiquities of the county of surrey, london, 180414, which includes one of the facsimile texts prepared in 1773. To the left are copies of the entries and translations for the four manors that currently make up the borough of woking, with the translation of the disputed entry for woking now. Full text of notes on the churches in the counties of kent, sussex, and surrey, mentioned in domesday book, and those of more recent date see other formats. In 1086, king william i the conqueror wanted to find out about all the land in his new kingdom. Learn more about out why and how domesday was created, and how to interpret it, in discover domesday. War memorial for both world wars at st peter s church in old woking surrey england the church is a grade 1 listed building. Apr 14, 2012 many people are aware that woking hosted the uks first modern cremation at the newly built london crematorium in 1884.
Esher place estate, now expensive surrey housing, was bought in 1816 for princess charlotte and king leopold. The name surrey comes from the old english sutherge meaning southern district and is first recorded in the anglosaxon chronicle for ad 722 as suthrige. Domesday survey both in print and online, so i do not want to waste too much time and space on the when, why, what and hows of it here. Domesday book extracts makes available over 8,500 fascinating extracts featuring the actual page entry for your town, a translation and glossary. It had a recorded population of 175 households in 1086. Another surrey town to appear in the 1086 domesday book is oxted. There is evidence of a roman settlement to the east of old woking. To show the overlay of current surrey on this map please click here. Guildford was a settlement in domesday book, in the hundred of woking and the county of surrey it had a recorded population of 175 households in 1086, putting it in the largest 20% of settlements recorded in domesday, and is listed under 7 owners in domesday book. In the domesday book of 1086, the area we now know as redhill.
How surrey towns and villages got their names including guildford, woking, dorking, staines and redhill. Were happy to report that modernday woking is not that scary anymore and that we had a good time there. English translation of newton entry 1819 copy for clarification, see latin abbreviations. This is a list of settlements in surrey by population based on the results of the 2011 census. A sixmile 10 km branch of the london and southwestern railway from woking to guildford was opened in may 1845. Woking appears in the domesday book of 1086 as wochinges. Create a fictional english town name, remember to make it sound anglosaxon with a ton at the end eg. E libro censuali gulielini conquestoris, vulgo vocato domesday book, apographice desumpta. Here is the entry for cottingham use this to make up your own entry. Find out how to search for your town or village, and how to access images of domesday along with an english translation, using our research guide. The hospital was referred to as brookwood asylum or surrey county lunatic asylum interchangeably until 1919, when it was officially renamed brookwood hospital. A brief history of godalming, surrey local histories.
Woking was a settlement in domesday book, in the hundred of woking and the county of surrey it had a recorded population of 71 households in 1086, putting it in the largest 20% of settlements recorded in domesday, and is listed under 2 owners in domesday book. Searching for cannibals in woking, surrey, england. Freemen, named as aelfric and brictwin, and lordship hides from ie. It was once thought that the vine was reintroduced into england by the normans after an absence of almost 700 years following the departure of the romans. Medieval agriculture in puttenham parish surrey medieval.
In 1994 woking football club won the fa trophy, winning it again in 1995 and 1997. Though woking s earliest written appearance is in domesday book, it is mentioned as the site of a monastery in an 8th century context, as wochingas. Woking was a settlement in domesday book, in the hundred of woking and the county of surrey. In 1954 woking squash club was formed and in 1968 woking archery club was established.
Explore the swathes of beautiful parkland and a classic country house at hatchlands park near guildford, surrey. Many incidental aims have been highlighted the settlement of disputes, confirmation of legal title, a line drawn under the conquest but most historians agree that the principle concern of domesday book was royal revenue, and its. The following pages include domesday placenames and landowners, and beneath some are links to websites. Apr 14, 2016 three new books on aspects of medieval surrey posted on april 14, 2016 by robert j s briggs a pleasing thing happened a few weeks ago i was sent a new book by its author, in the hope that 1 it might be of interest to me and 2 i might publicise it via this blog. The key to the colours shown on the map are to the lower right,the green shaded area is the boundary of andredsweald the impassible forest as described by the anglo saxon chronicles. This charter is paraphrased in a 12thcentury interpolation to the anglosaxon chronicles entry for 777 ad. At the heart of my puttenham study is the most rigorous analysis of a domesday book entry for an individual property in surrey ever undertaken, correlating the statements made about redessolham such as they have been recorded the means by which information was gathered by the commissioners and the subsequent scribal transmission left much.
The entries in the domesday book were listed in order by landowner. In 1965, a revised town plan foresaw a population of 97,000 by 1981 and proposed building 3 new housing schemes, one of which was known. In king edwards time, it was taxed for twentytwo hides. Many incidental aims have been highlighted the settlement of disputes, confirmation of legal title, a line drawn under the conquest but most historians agree that the principle concern of domesday book was royal revenue, and its main purpose was to increase it. Society day school, surrey history centre, woking, 16 march 20. The next united kingdom census will take place in 2021. The above exon domesday entry for sturminster newton is for convenience as follows.
It had a recorded population of 71 households in 1086, putting. Woodham locks on basingstoke canal, near woking in surrey not far from the prehistoric burial mounds in horsell common. It also has the third oldest door in the british isles. Domesdaybook, seu liber censualis willelmi primi regis.
In the domesday book of 1086 it is listed as wochinges, being. The two and a half centuries extending from edward the confessors reign to the last years of edward i form a period of growth. How surrey towns and villages got their names including guildford. Entries for croydon and cheam, surrey, in the 1783 edition of domesday book. Ockham is between cobham near leatherhead and east horsley near guildford. By the time of the domesday book it was called sudrie and was subdivided into 14 groups of manors call hundreds. Dorking was not a place of especially great consequence at any point in the. Few however realise that woking or wochinges as it was called in the domesday book in 1086 was hosting. So, literally speaking, woking is the settlement of the people of wok or. Three new books on aspects of medieval surrey surrey medieval.
Few however realise that woking or wochinges as it was called in the domesday book in 1086 was hosting formal cremation ceremonies 4000 years earlier. Commercial site with extracts from domesday book domesday book entries including translations for each settlement. Domesday book encompasses two independent works in, originally, two physical volumes. Vineyards are recorded at 45 places in domesday book, 32 of these in great domesday, all in southeastern england. Archived 20 april 20 at day surrey domesday book archived 30 october 2007 at the wayback machine pipe r. In music, town called malice was written about woking by paul weller and recorded by his band, the jam. Baptismal font at st peter s church old woking surrey presented by rev c w arnold may 22 1881 a grade 1 listed building within. By the time of the domesday book 1086 it was a flourishing community. There were 151 places in the county of surrey in domesday book. It might seem tiny to us but by the standards of the time godalming was a large village. Though wokings earliest written appearance is in the domesday book, it is. List of settlements in surrey by population wikivisually.
St peters church is situated in old woking, surrey, england. Family history library catalog the text in this article is based on the articles on the villages of send and ripley in wikipedia. In 1086, king william i the conqueror wanted to find out. All these vineyards were in the hands of normans or the great abbeys. Its description there is complex, since it was then held as three estates, by king william the conqueror, walter fitzother, constable of windsor castle, and ansgot and godfrey from osbern fitzosbern, then bishop of exeter.