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52: 660: 180:', which opened in 1968 and survives to this day. A leading local historian, the late Bernard Pardoe, researched the history of the farm in detail (and apparently published his findings circa 1964) and journalist Howard Johnson also featured the history of the farm in an unidentified local newspaper in the 1980s. 129:, and then or shortly after, was in the tenure of William Cooke, afterwards leased with the manor to Sir William Fitz William in 1550 and afterwards to his widow Joan, who died in 1574; afterwards leased, in 1589, to Richard Lilley, this time without the manor. Perhaps with this family, at the start of the 117:
across Chertsey had several evolved names, this one was formerly Lolworth and Rookbury and earliest seen as Hardwitch before settling on Hardwick. A first reference to it Hardwick, a manor, occurs in 1430 when it was held by the abbey and assigned to William Frowyk to farm. As an Abbot's asset, the
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bombs in 1940. One landed on the East side of Cockcrow Hill, leaving a crater that was not filled-in until late 2019. Another hit one end of the farmhouse and destroyed the kitchen, part of the dining room, a bedroom and part of the attic. The house survived and but was not rebuilt in its original
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In 1963 the farm came up for sale and was bought by veterinarian Dr Carl Boyde. The farm was divided up and a portion of the farm had an impressive miniature railway built on it called 'the
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the farm was held by the Royalists who lost the war. The victorious Parliamentarians captured the farm and kept a document listing all of the land owned by Parliament. Hardwick Court was
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was routed through two of its fields and separated the farm from Chertsey, though a tunnel bridge exists to the southeast of the farm allowing the A320 to access Chertsey.
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windows form some of the windows and the right hand portion of the house damaged by enemy action and was rebuilt on rather different lines from the original.
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and awarded to Robert Boscoes or Bowes, thereafter including the farm and manor of Hardwick. After the war and temporary government (what was termed 'the
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A fire broke out at the south end in 1978 but the damage was repaired and this example of medieval building remains in agricultural use today.
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of the Monarchy, the farm was returned to the royal family and was one of many possessions in Surrey and elsewhere presented from King
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From this tunnel, 100m south is the mini-roundabout to Holloway and Hardwick Lane running past the farm, which lies at 21m
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During the 1970s the farm was reduced in size, similarly to its earlier loss on land on earlier sales, when the
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farming tenant was in early years only in receipt of half of the waifs and strays in the land of the manor.
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While the farmhouse has been rebuilt several times, the barn is a rare survivor of its kind, was
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disease as it was only three hundred yards away from where hundreds of cattle had to be killed.
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form and size. A third bomb damaged the South end of the tithe barn which was later repaired.
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a form of taxes in kind. This court was for minor offences or to settle arguments.
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List of ancient structures in Surrey dating using Lottery Funding
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The farm remained in royal family overall ownership until the
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In 2007 the farm was at the front line in the fight against
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Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Englefield Green
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Hardwick Court Barn on Hardwick Lane Grade II listing
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Hardwick Court farmhouse dates to the 16th century (
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51°23′06″N 0°31′55″W / 51.385°N 0.532°W / 51.385; -0.532

manor
Chertsey
Surrey
Saxon period
Court of the Manor
Hundred Courts
tithe barn
Chertsey Abbey
tithes
Tithings
abbey's dissolution
The Crown
English Civil War
confiscated
Commonwealth
Restoration
Charles II
Georgian
World War II
Luftwaffe
Great Cockcrow Railway
M25 motorway
foot and mouth
listed
University of London
Tudor period
gables
Mullion

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