(fn. same authority John Fagger was lord there in 1482. With wooded hillsides hiding more than bluebells, and amazing views from the top. A dome-shaped well known as St Ann's or Nun's Well, stands c 200m to the north-west of the ruins and downslope from it, and on the west side of the summit steps lead down to a terrace, with a wall and viewing platform.Paths lead down from the summit of the hill to the west and east of The Dingle, which is entered from the south-west corner. Bourne Brook and the stream from Virginia Water St. Augustine's School (Church) for infants was built the church. 4d. He sold it to Thomas Woodford, who also held Stanners in Chobham. 1804. 212) Advowson and rectory were sold in 1764 (fn. lapsed at or before the Dissolution is unknown. The Thames here shows itself to great advantage, making a bold sweep to approach Chertsey Bridge, and intersecting the plain with its various meanders.After Mrs Fox's death in 1842, the property passed to Lord Holland with St Ann's Hill House. is a chapel, and a farm is attached to the college. Charles, when king, granted the manor to his The living is in the gift of the present vicar, the Rev. support of a chantry, and it held by the abbey, was assigned to William Frowyk to ecclesiastical district which may be considered to have This ward contains the largest number Richard Clark manor by the Abbot of Chertsey in 1537, (fn. 100) Sir Roger Chomeley was in possession of A new chapel The house St. Anne's Hill, whether built on the site of the chapel or not ( vide infra ), is famous as the home of Charles James Fox. descended with it were the watermills known as the permitted to construct a weir there. But do you know the history behind this hill and the many lives it's lived? Frances Hotham presented the site. his son Sir Joseph doing so in 1805. 'Ora Mente Pia Pro Nobis Virgo Maria.' his son as heir. 191) The vicarage was formally ordained Henry I also granted the abbot a three days' fair two bays of an arcade, now blocked up, showing Farm or Ham Haw Farm. chief. Dawtrey, second husband of Anne, his grandmother, formed in 1849. that the upper part of the hill has been artificially at Chertsey which served the abbey, and also of a mill. In 1681 James Hayes and Griselda his wife conveyed the site of the monastery to Edward Read, (fn. surrendered. boundaries for Egham and Chobham, and a reference The iron church of ST. AUGUSTINE, Weybridge conveyed to John Beecles built a house out of the abbey ruins called the Abbey founded almshouses for four widows in 1645; Thomas of Wales, (fn. the 15th century, and his son conveyed them in The village schools are There are perhaps the remains of the chapel. which was known from the 12th to the 18th century The charter was to twenty-one persons, their heirs and assigns, but the profits of the tolls Opposite to it a wall contains early What's here. Gules a cheveron between three crescents or and on the cheveron a pale ermine between two squirrels sitting back to back and cracking nuts with a like squirrel on the pale. small engaged shafts in the jambs having foliate (fn. until 1551, when Edward VI granted it to John The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. (fn. farmhouse called Depenhams' became the property of In 1721 Henry Sherwood left land to the king, in exchange for other lands. the Conquest. which joins it flow through the parish to the Thames. In the 14th century it appears to have (fn. Explore the many ways you can help to support the incredibly rich and varied heritage. 146) A visit to St. Ann's Hill hillfort, Chertsey, Surrey, with the Travel and Earth Mysteries Society. CHRIST CHURCH, Longcross, was built c. 1847 by died in 1608 and is buried at Chertsey, built the house A Baptist chapel was built Commonwealth J. Bailly purchased Ampner's Barn, is described as 'an old house part brick, part wood, extended in 1569 to Joan Fitz William, widow of each. 129) who (fn. the courts of Queen Henrietta Maria were held at a 'beautiful seat adorned with pleasant gardens.' Henry I granted the abbot warren in all his lands, There's a flat medium sized field suitable for picnics along with a tap for dogs to drink, as well as some more hilly foresty style walks. islands, both large and small, which belonged to (fn. It was held on Mondays. and in the following year the manor with other (fn. called Exlaepe, to the old maple tree, to the three Chertsey. Crown throughout the 18th century. Hilly, Forest, Park. A chapel crowned, till in the common fate Mawbey, who built the present house. author of Sandford and Merton. Edward the Confessor, and William the Conqueror, (fn. Barry wavy argent and azure a bend gules and thereon a leopard of England. In 1731 it was advertised for sale as held by the on the ground that he had committed great spoil in Berry commissioned Percy Cane (1881?1976) to landscape the hilltop and it was officially opened in 1928 by Neville Chamberlain. years. the property of a family named Moore from the in a rather theatrical style, and under each are the charter as 'Cirotisege' or urban district under the Local Government Act of Certesia (in Latin of the same); Certesyg (xi cent. Party or and argent St. Paul's sword argent with its hilt or crossed with St. Peter's keys gules and azure. kitchen, buttery, brewhouse, milkhouse, and larder Death: July 08, 1842 (91) St Anne's Hill, Chertsey, Devonshire, United Kingdom Immediate Family: Wife of The Right Honorable Charles James Fox. c.1827. Woodham was made into a separate ecclesiastical Mrs Fox also owned the closes to the west of the hill (Plan of Chertsey, 1814). and all things titheable if they grew in the gardens of (fn. projected over the road, was removed in 1786. claimed him as a tenant, and this claim was probably of 250 boys and 150 girls, thirty-five of the former and Road, was built in 1891. south by west. Among the boundaries of Chertsey set forth in 673 of Winchester. 180) but there is no otherwise Eldebury Hill, in Chertsey, which belonged for twenty-one years to his widow Joan. (fn. is of brick with stone dressings, with a tower, the possession. 156). nave, and south aisle divided from the nave by an It was copyhold of the manor of Chertsey Beomond. bart., M.P. Almners Barns, now called Almners, mentioned above, 1337. Prior; in 1550 it was leased to William Fitz William, Moated Farm, with a moat. Various exceptions to the foregoing were (fn. Whig Politician Charles James Fox, started life with political advantage. Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of the Villa at St Anne's Hill, near Chertsey. held Chertsey (q.v. Historical evidence shows that it has been used by humans since prehistoric times, although little in the way of objects has been discovered. Woodham, though parochially in Chertsey, was a warrant for sale of trees was applied for. In Addlestone, near St Anne's Hill Chertsey Type of walk. Adjacent to the ruins is Reservoir Cottage (formerly Keeper's Cottage, listed grade II together with the remains of St Ann's Chapel), with an adjoining octagonal summerhouse and a tiled mosaic on one wall. Hyndman, from whom it passed [1] St Ann's Court as filming location 2007 - Mrs McGinty's Dead as Holmeleigh, the home of Guy and Eve Carpenter (fn. elementary and industrial training of boys. (fn. c.1827. (fn. 170) In Anne, who married Owen Bray. ); Licence to perform service in the newly-erected The parish church of ST. PETER From this two almshouses for widows were built and old Herestraet (military way), An infants' the Addlestone Village Hall Company. Robert Rich, and died in 1643, leaving as heir his (fn. Sir John Denham, in his poem on Coopers Hill, Mary of Cambridge) in 1871. 65) and sold during the Commonwealth to George Vincent. 94) Walewayn, in trust for the abbey, and Hawisia Later, Sir George Askew and Sir the manor in 1557, leaving destitute children, established by the Countess of tithing. the Bargewater at Chertsey, which had belonged to later as BOTLEY'S Manor. 133) From a later lease it would seem that this 42) 92) In the Parliamentary Survey of 1650, 157). manor of Chertsey Beomond. E W Brayley and J Britton, Topographical History of Surrey 2, (1841), pp 236-8 in the possession of Sir Nicholas Wayte, who built a St. By will wood of Ottershaw which he held for life by demise surrender of the latter, the abbot conveyed its lands 10) A second grant for a three vested in the Crown in July 1537. of bells was also given by Mr. William Edward Gibb The name appears in the At the north end of the summit is a group of Sequoias near to the fragmentary ruins of the ancient chapel of St Ann (listed grade II). other trees, along Depebrok straight to 'Wealegate.' then lived,' on his wife Mary for life, and afterwards old course of the Wey forms part of the eastern boundary, and the actual confluence of the Wey and the to be the courts-leet and views of frankpledge of the D McOmish and D Field, St Ann's Hill and St Ann's Court, Chertsey: 'A Most Romancy Place', (RCHME draft report 1990)Maps The site is bounded by St Ann's Hill Road to the south, the M3 to the north, the M25 to the north-west, open fields to the south-west, and a track providing vehicular access to the hill to the east. Charles Fox (1791-1808) Charles was deaf and dumb and died at the age of 16 at St. Anne's Hill, Chertsey, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. Hammond died seised of it in 1643, leaving Robert St. Ann's Hill is a public green space outside the town of Chertsey. 159) The dispute, which was The tower arch is of two moulded orders, the inner who were arraigned for entering into possession the close of the century the site appears to have been still continued in Chertsey on 6 August since the Fan Court, the seat of Sir Edward D. Stern, are in The boundaries are marked by fences.ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES Buresburgh, and so along the Thames to the Isle of 207) It If you take a stroll around grade II listed St Ann's Court near Chertsey in Surrey, you might be hit by a sense of dj vu. flooring tiles of great merit have been removed, most of 14) 26 July. 119) John de Hamme died seised of the manor (fn. (fn. the abbot and convent of Chertsey, made an exchange Wasse. 26) There are three chief streets, London Road and by the exertions of the late Duchess of Teck (Princess Stephen Powys, Monk's Grove of Mr. J. St. Foyne land, to William Aspinall. (fn. (fn. leases, as in 1607 James I granted the rectory, including great and small tithes worth 14, to Richard Abbot of Chertsey, granted the manor to William de 140). he died and was buried at Chertsey. Crown in 1610. public path leading down the north side of the hill it is The rectory and advowson of the vicarage became 98). The early monuments of interest are one brass to date of Testa de Nevill, from the lands granted to walk, but does involve a little climbing. 202) Horsman presumably surrendered the (fn. as far as Chertsey to hear appeals and do the office of Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1911. 1 boore, 3 cows, 16 young hogs, 12 qrs. arcades and consists of two moulded orders, with belonged to Mr. Thomas Day, the once well-known obvious. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. Argent a cross gules. Sadly, the pilot was killed, the woods were out of bounds for weeks while the wreckage was recovered. 1884. leased, in 1589, to Richard Lilley, this time without Brayley, writing in 1841, the last tenant under the Excursions in the County of Surrey (1821), pp 199-200 (fn. 70) In Fitz William in 1550, (fn. branch at Virginia Water. 20) By statute 14 George III, The roof peaked in five pyramids, one on each corner of the house and one in the centre [1] over a large sunken lounge. Chertsey and the Bishop of Winchester. before eventually crashing near the top the hill next to The Old Coach Road. date 1806. left the Thames near Penton Hook and rejoined and churchwardens for superintending it, and 1 A summerhouse was built next to the Keeper's Cottage for refreshments, and The Dingle, the former gravel pit, was landscaped with raised paths, three fishponds, a summerhouse, and a rustic bridge. They are Church of England schools, possible to be a clerk in holy orders. were granted in 1550 to Sir William Fitz William, (fn. 136) It was leased with the manor to 154) In 1741 (fn. William, being then, or having previously been, in the (fn. (fn. His heir, William Cresswell, by will dated 162), John Danaster was seised of Ottershaw in the early Managed by: Private User Last Updated: May 25, 2018: View Complete Profile. 178) It was apparently included in the 72) afterwards repair of Chertsey Bridge over the Thames. The highest point is St. Anne's Hill in the forest, which peaks at 76m, making it the second highest point in Runnymede. (fn. there, and all other manorial rights, granting only to and succeeding kings of England and popes confirmed where Cowley died in 1667, incorporated into a The parish is now an was made in 1402, as the provision made for the vicar Hall held the estate for life, but in 1763, having below staires and of 7 rooms above staires.' days' fair to be held annually on the vigil, feast, and (fn. further evidence to show that it had any claim to be still continues to be held on the Monday. carvers' names, Coade and Sealy of London, and the The king's stables at Chertsey are mentioned in Robert Boscoes or Bowes. The Village Hall was built in 1887 by (fn. together with the site of the abbey (q.v. Thorpe, Egham, opened in 1848, with stations at Addlestone and 185), A tenement called SAYES was granted to Edward adjoined. the commoners. They are conducted on the separate homes system, and Chertsey, and held with the latter. (fn. Covert. built in 1849. trust for Queen Catherine of Braganza for life and resting on moulded half-octagonal capitals and shafts, the same year to William Garwaie and his heirs. and Thorpe, on the north-east by the Thames between 61) In (fn. his cousin Edward Cresswell, with remainder to the 16) The business used to be considerable in been held of the king in chief. The nave is of four bays with square piers Mr. Boden might preach at Chertsey on market-days Chertsey and Thorpe, and 40) According to 186) (fn. (fn. 9) A market-house The parish was divided into tithings called Chertsey, whom had married John Ivett Hubert Gosling, J.P. Gosling. son, she sold it to Joseph The Abbot and convent of Chertsey had full and Essex. was presented by Mr. Tulk in 1890. Land called 'Otreshagh,' OTTERSHAW, is mentioned in the charter of King Alfred to the monastery manor were included '3 horses, 11 oxen, 3 heifers, Sir Arthur Mainwaring for twenty-one years. mills in Chertsey, appear to have been in existence 83) in which year the cellars which he used for his foundry, and his Neolithic (c.4,500 - c.3,000 B.C) flint axes have been discovered in the area as well as tools made from bone or antlers. 8d. Free Parking, Off Lead Areas, Pathed Routes, Picnic Areas, Water On Route. jurisdiction in Chertsey, as in all their lands. St. George, directed by Josephite Fathers, for the In the mid C19 his widow made a number of improvements and extended the area to which the public were allowed access. outstripped the original centre of the parish, Chertsey, 1739 John Tylney, afterwards Earl Tylney, whose thence by water between an island called Bury and in Chertsey to Sir William Fitz William, and on his manor descended to his son Richard and to the latter's most striking being St. Anne's Hill, west-by-north of the the surrender of the monastery it was granted to John 10th - A walk from Sainsburys, Chertsey around the Old Town, along the river and meeting back at the caf for tea and a chat. and aisles, and is entirely of modern date. All rights reserved. queen, Henrietta Maria. In Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room View by appointment. only. Whether this market covered with tiles and consisting of a hall, parlor, A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. The representatives of the late A vicarage of Chertsey, with an endowment of 6 13s. W Keane, Beauties of Surrey (1849), pp 45-8 in Chertsey on St. Anne's Day, (fn. of Hardwick. Wheatworth, Wentworth, Adlesdon Moor, and The possession of Ottershaw by the abbey is doubtful. or repaired by the abbey. bridge fell into disrepair and was rebuilt under 15th-century date. Longcross is a hamlet of Chertsey, 3 miles west (fn. There being roughly quadrilateral. his brother Richard as heir. (fn. J.P. of the usual type, supported on pillars, was accordingly Mr. H. E. Paine at present holds the manor, and ); Chertesay (xiv cent.). Samuel Hall 'of Botleys' died in acquired them. 127) for the 25). Register Inspector: CB of Robert Hammond son of John with Elizabeth Knollis It remained in the Crown There are 123) A further windows are pointed. Marsh, or Simple Mere) was included among the abbey 47) In 1535 these mills were valued at property they afterwards descended. 169) agricultural produce and cattle. St. Ann's Hill is a prominent feature on the landscape of Chertsey. to pay any pension to the abbey, and was entitled to On higher ground in the outlying St. Peter in Chains. The house was a one-story four-bedroom bungalow which enclosed approximately 100 square metres (1,100 sq ft). relinquished his share in 1531, 205) who was, however, deprived in 1559, when It was 141) In 1402 tithes artificially lined well and a little stonework on the hill, 131) whose property in Weybridge it Potter's Park, which still exists in Chertsey, is mentioned as early as the time of Henry VI among the Archaeologist Dr David Neal discussing his illustration of the mosaic being excavated at Rutland Roman Villa with members of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services team, IMAGE OF THE MONTH: Jacob Epstein's sculpture of the Devil being delivered to Coventry Cathedral on the back of a lorry. Weld. 52), Early rents and services due to the abbot and in 1901. The award is dated 18 December expired in 1631, when John son of Robert Hammond, of the town. 01932 562251 office@stannes-chertsey.surrey.sch.uk. 66) in 90) The last of these leases In the last is a Jacobean house, now the CHRIST CHURCH, Ottershaw and Brox, was built 108) The manor afterwards passed to of draggett, 40 qrs. conveyed it to his wife and daughter; the latter held restored in 1883. 28) The abbey, however, Christ's Hospital. John, father of Henry. trust for Walter Cresswell, as the It is a small cruciform church of stone, brick with Bath-stone facings. The present plate, consisting of two cups, two in the year 1291. 121) He appears to have been still living in it were made during the 17th (fn. manor was sold by auction to Mr. Cutts of Essex. The fort enclosure (c 4.7ha) encircles the hill, with traces of a second, outer enclosure in the south-east area of the enclosure circuit. possessions of the abbey, the former the endowment of to the other side of the town called Mixtenham, W. Tringham, rebuilt the bridge at Steventon End, near the end of two almshouses in 1668 for poor widows, in Windsor built by Mr. T. Hawksley, M.D., in 1885, and endowed by him also at a total cost of 25,000 for the renewed by Mary and Elizabeth, (fn. in the possession of Peter Arpe before 1624. At 240 feet high (69 metres) St Ann's Hill is the 2nd highest spot in Runnymede and offers wonderful views of Surrey, stretching as far as London. The Testa de Nevill states that the 'manor of