. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. FARNHAM HUNDRED ton was admitted on Colonel Mordaunt's sur- render. He enlarged the house and called it Pierrepont Lodge, after his family name.^' In 1772 the duke surrendered in favour of Ascanius William Senior.^s Mr. Senior surrendered in 1777, and Thomas James Storer was admitted.^" Mr. Storer surrendered in 1782, and Sir William Meredith, Bart., was admitted.'" He surrendered in 1785, and Ralph Winstanley Wood was admitted. He was already resident, and is described as ' of Pierrepont Lodge' in the ;' The
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. FARNHAM HUNDRED ton was admitted on Colonel Mordaunt's sur- render. He enlarged the house and called it Pierrepont Lodge, after his family name.^' In 1772 the duke surrendered in favour of Ascanius William Senior.^s Mr. Senior surrendered in 1777, and Thomas James Storer was admitted.^" Mr. Storer surrendered in 1782, and Sir William Meredith, Bart., was admitted.'" He surrendered in 1785, and Ralph Winstanley Wood was admitted. He was already resident, and is described as ' of Pierrepont Lodge' in the ;' The land in- cluded Tankersford and abutted upon Hillage Common field, a common field now forgotten, but probably in the grounds of Pierrepont. Mr. Wood built a new house on a place called High- field, and is described as of Highfield Place when he surrendered in 1820.'^ Pierrepont Lodge was rebuilt by Mr. Wood,'' who was a wealthy man at one time, but lost his money by the failure of one of his sons-in-law, John Tayler, an East India merchant, in whose busi- ness he had embarked his fortune. 9* Another son- in-law, Crawford Davison, bought Pierrepont. He died in 1836, and his son, Crawford Davison, parted writh it to Richard Henry Combe in 1864. Mr. Combe enfranchised the copyhold in 1885 's shortly before he bought the manorinl888. In his life- time an extensive breed- ing stud of thoroughbred horses was kept at Pierrepont. Mr. Combe died in 1900. His widow, Mrs. Combe, resides at Pierrepont, and is lady of the manor of Frensham Beale. Though the hamlet above this is called Mill Bridge, there is no appearance or record of a mill. Frensham Beale Mill is a long way higher up the stream. The ford is opposite what is now Pierre- pont Farm. Frensham Priory, on the right bank, is a house where Mr. Crawford Davison, the younger, resided before he sold Pierrepont, which was let. It is an old house, but it was never a priory. On the left bank of the river, on high ground nearly opposite t
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