. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. A HISTORY OF SURREY works.' Partly enclosed in this curving bank are five round barrowrs. They have been recently opened without result; apparently they had been disturbed before.* On Britt Hill north-east of the village the Rev. Charles Kerry, of Puttenham, discovered a number of neolithic flakes, three barbed arrow-heads, a fine leaf-shaped spear-head, and a celt of Devonshire granite.' The earliest recorded mention of Elsted by name is in the foundation charter of Waverley, 1123, when William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester, gra
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. A HISTORY OF SURREY works.' Partly enclosed in this curving bank are five round barrowrs. They have been recently opened without result; apparently they had been disturbed before.* On Britt Hill north-east of the village the Rev. Charles Kerry, of Puttenham, discovered a number of neolithic flakes, three barbed arrow-heads, a fine leaf-shaped spear-head, and a celt of Devonshire granite.' The earliest recorded mention of Elsted by name is in the foundation charter of Waverley, 1123, when William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester, granted ' two acres of land in Helestede' to the Abbey.' In 1537 the lands which Waverley had held in Elsted were granted to Sir William Fitz- wilUam.'' Probably after this they passed on as part of the ' site and possession of the late dis- solved abbey ' to the holders of Waverley.' Other lands in Elsted seem to have been held by various is now closed as a mill and used only at a house. There is a pottery at Charles Hill. The woollen industry is said to have flourished here, ai else- where on the Wey. Large flocb of sheep grazed on the commons within living memory. There are few now. The old inns are the Woolpack and the Golden Fleece. In 1666 a place cdled the Dyehouse existed, possibly giving evidence of woad cultivation and a dyeing place. This was then in the tenancy of Henry ; There are few houses of any importance or age in Elsted. Opposite Westbrook Farm is a smiU timbered house with the marks of a moat round it. At ' Stace/s Farm' south-west of the green is a possibly seventeenth century window, and there is a good black and white timbered house in the village street, west of the Star Inn. The fair, which is said to have been held on St ,*^^:,-^-.:i K.:--i. â ^ I W" _ &! '-^ i^ ^ *â Elsted Mill. neighbouring landowners. In 1583, for example, John Byrche conveyed two messuages etc. in Elsted to Sir Thomas Bowyer, who was then holding the manor of Fre
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