. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. FARNHAM HUNDRED Ecclesiastical Commissioners took over the estates of the see in 1869. The Local Government Act, 2i & 22 Victoria, c. 98, was adopted at Farnham 27 July 1866. By the subsequent Act, 57 Victoria, c. 73, the place became an urban district, with a council of twelve members, the parish being divided into urban and rural districts. In 1902 the urban district was slightly extended into the rural dis- trict. 53 One of the earlier acts of the local board of 1866 was to pull down the old Market House. The market is now
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. FARNHAM HUNDRED Ecclesiastical Commissioners took over the estates of the see in 1869. The Local Government Act, 2i & 22 Victoria, c. 98, was adopted at Farnham 27 July 1866. By the subsequent Act, 57 Victoria, c. 73, the place became an urban district, with a council of twelve members, the parish being divided into urban and rural districts. In 1902 the urban district was slightly extended into the rural dis- trict. 53 One of the earlier acts of the local board of 1866 was to pull down the old Market House. The market is now in the hands of a company. The rights of the bishop had been conveyed, with the assent of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, on 8 February 1858, to the Farnham Market House and Town Hall Company, Limited, under the Ecclesiastical Leasing Act of 1857. In 1875 the date of the fair, formerly held on Holy Thursday, was changed to 10 May, and the fair held on 13 November was changed to 10 November.^* The old Market House stood at the bottom of Castle Street, in the middle of the road. It was open underneath, supported on brick and timber arches. It is supposed to have been built by John Clark,5' who was senior bailiff of the corporation under the charter given by Bishop Home in The inscription upon it, remembered by living people,— You, who don't like me, give money to mend me. You, who do like me, give money to end me, seems to point to its being built by private liber- ality. It is said to have been put up by Clark to silence critics at the time of its erection. No charge for the building appears in the town accounts. The old Market House was unfor- tunately pulled down in 1866, having been just replaced by the present Exchange, at the corner of the street, built by the Market House and Town Hall Company, Limited. The clock on this was given by Mr. S. Nicholson of Waverley. The old TowTi Hall, where the bailiffs and bur- gesses met, is in the borough, nearly opposite the
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