. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. A HISTORY OF SURREY Sir Thomas Abney, the friend and patron of Dr. Isaac Watts.'" Mrs. Abney left the estate to her chaplain, the Rev. Thomas Tayler. The Abney family was Presbyterian, and the hall of Tilford House was licensed for Presbyterian services until 1776, when a chapel was erected in the present stable yard. By 1854 this chapel was disused,"" and soon after 1857 the pulpit was given to a Wes- leyan chapel at AJdershot, where it now ;' In 1831 Tilford House passed into the possession of Anne, vrife
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. A HISTORY OF SURREY Sir Thomas Abney, the friend and patron of Dr. Isaac Watts.'" Mrs. Abney left the estate to her chaplain, the Rev. Thomas Tayler. The Abney family was Presbyterian, and the hall of Tilford House was licensed for Presbyterian services until 1776, when a chapel was erected in the present stable yard. By 1854 this chapel was disused,"" and soon after 1857 the pulpit was given to a Wes- leyan chapel at AJdershot, where it now ;' In 1831 Tilford House passed into the possession of Anne, vrife of Mr. Martin Ware and daughter of Mr. Tayler, to whom Mrs. Abney had left the ;' Their son, James Ware, died un- married in igo2,'" and the estate descended to his nephew, the present owner, the Rev. Martin S. Ware.'" In 1852 a great part of the common of Tilford and the waste of the manor of Farnham was allotted to the bishop and to the holders of land and owners of houses in Tilford. Part of the dows. It consists of a chancel, nave, south aisle,'" porch, and western bell-gables in supposed thir- teenth century style. There is a handsome timber lychgate. The teredos is in memory of Mist Charlotte Smith, who resided for a short lime at Tilford House, and who had a reputation as a poet. A Congregational church which has been built close by may be considered the centre of a con- gregation which really represents the Presbyterian gathering at Tilford House. WRECCLESHAM tithing lies south-west of Farnham and extended formerly across the Hamp- shire border into Alice Holt forest. The river VJey flowing south of the Pilgrims' Road seems to have formed the north-western boundary of the ancient tithing. In all the early rent rolls of the bishops of Winchester Wrecclesham appears as a tithing of Farnham manor, and as owing a rent from certain tenements called ' Castle rent.''»» A considerable village has grown up round. Tilford. Green vrith the Great Oak
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