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Hundred of Blackheath, Surrey

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In 1708 James Zouche, younger son of Sir Edward, the last of the male heirs, died. The Duchess of Cleveland succeeded, but died on 9 October 1709. Her trustees in 1715 sold the rights, as well as in Woking, to John Walter of Busbridge House, Godalming, whose son sold them to
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in 1752. The dwindling value hundreds later came to possess was lost outright by a process of population expansion and industrialisation, with rights and land ownership becoming bound up with the smaller estates within them in the 19th century.
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and other lands, to be held by the service of bringing in the first dish to the king's table on St. James's Day and paying annually £100 (initially equivalent to £26,333 in 2023 but reduced in modern terms by inflation). All
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and newer manors which came to form the main, manageable agricultural asset throughout the country. It occupied approximately the south to south-west twelfth of the county.
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until the late 19th century had dual secular and religious functions. Its economic unity was shattered like most hundreds given the rise of smaller
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incidents were expressly abrogated at that time. Eventually the hundred rent ceased to be reclaimable from any tenants in the area.
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Though used for entirely secular purposes, it consisted of eleven parishes which in the polity of England from the
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at a place called Perry Bridge, or La Perie at the western edge of Shalford. The jurisdiction of the
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of land, versus 97 stated to exist before the Norman Conquest in the same '
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granted the £100 rent and the reversion for 1,000 years legally to
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attributes its conflation with Bramley to its stated size of 6½
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Blackheath, Surrey (hundred)
Hundred of Blackheath, Kent
51°12′22″N 0°31′23″W / 51.206°N 0.523°W / 51.206; -0.523
hundred
Surrey
Waverley
Guildford
Norman Conquest
manors
Albury
Alfold
Bramley
Cranleigh
Dunsfold
Ewhurst
Hascombe
St Martha
Shalford
Shere
Wonersh
hundred court
River Wey
sheriff's court
Odo, Earl of Kent
Victoria County History
hides
Domesday Book
rectors
courts leet
view of frankpledge

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