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Chelsham, the Glossary

Chelsham is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Chelsham and Farleigh and the Tandridge district of Surrey, England.^[1]

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Former civil parishes in Surrey
Tandridge

Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB;, AHNE) is one of 46 areas of countryside in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.

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Botley Hill

Botley Hill is a hill in Surrey and is the highest point of the North Downs, with a height of.

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Chelsham and Farleigh

Chelsham and Farleigh is a civil parish in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England. Chelsham and Chelsham and Farleigh are Tandridge.

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Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church (Ædes Christi, the temple or house, ædes, of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.

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Common land

Common land is collective land (sometimes only open to those whose nation governs the land) in which all persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.

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Court of Aldermen

The Court of Aldermen forms part of the senior governance of the City of London Corporation.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Earl of Gloucester

The title of Earl of Gloucester was created several times in the Peerage of England.

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East Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)

East Surrey is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Claire Coutinho, a Conservative who formerly served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.

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Fealty

An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas (faithfulness), is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another.

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Feudalism

Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.

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Great Britain Historical GIS

The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801.

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Guildford

Guildford is a town in west Surrey, England, around south-west of central London. Chelsham and Guildford are former civil parishes in Surrey.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Heriot

Heriot, from Old English heregeat ("war-gear"), was originally a death-duty in late Anglo-Saxon England, which required that at death, a nobleman provided to his king a given set of military equipment, often including horses, swords, shields, spears and helmets.

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Hugh Despenser the Elder

Hugh le Despenser (1 March 126127 October 1326), sometimes referred to as "the Elder Despenser", was for a time the chief adviser to King Edward II of England.

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Hundred (county division)

A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.

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Inclosure Acts

The Inclosure Acts created legal property rights to land previously held in common in England and Wales, particularly open fields and common land.

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Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames, colloquially known as Kingston, is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, England.

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Lady Day

In the Western liturgical year, Lady Day is the common name in some English-speaking and Scandinavian countries of the Feast of the Annunciation, celebrated on 25 March to commemorate the annunciation of the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would bear Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Mary I of England

Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558.

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Metropolitan Green Belt

The Metropolitan Green Belt is a statutory green belt around London, England.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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North Downs

The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent.

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Old Style and New Style dates

Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively.

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Ordnance datum

An ordnance datum (OD) is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps.

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Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain.

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Oxted

Oxted is a town and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, at the foot of the North Downs, south-east of Croydon, west of Sevenoaks, and north of East Grinstead. Chelsham and Oxted are Tandridge.

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Plough

A plough or plow (US; both) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting.

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Points of the compass

The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography.

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Richard fitz Gilbert

Richard fitz Gilbert (before 1035–), 1st feudal baron of Clare in Suffolk, was a Norman lord who participated in the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and was styled "de Bienfaite", "de Clare", and of "Tonbridge" from his holdings.

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Richard III of England

Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485.

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Richard Onslow (Parliamentarian)

Sir Richard Onslow (1601 – 19 May 1664) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1664.

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Roman villa

A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house in the territory of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions.

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Romano-British culture

The Romano-British culture arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia.

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Sanderstead

Sanderstead is a village and medieval-founded church parish at the southern end of Croydon in south London, England, within the London Borough of Croydon, and formerly in the historic county of Surrey, until 1965. Chelsham and Sanderstead are villages in Surrey.

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Sheen Priory

Sheen Priory (ancient spelling: Shene, Shean, etc.) in Sheen, now Richmond, London, was a Carthusian monastery founded in 1414 within the royal manor of Sheen, on the south bank of the Thames, upstream and approximately 9 miles southwest of the Palace of Westminster.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsham

, Warlingham Park Hospital.

Chelsham, the Glossary

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See also

Former civil parishes in Surrey

Tandridge

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