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Heritage Materials

The following maps articles and pictures have been donated by local residents who have over the years developed a great love for Pyrford heritage.  We are indebted to them for offering these materials for the benefit of the Forum and the community.

 

Pyrford Forum Archive

This catalogue was compiled in February 2018 in response to the donation of research materials by Brian Wilson.  Brian compiled this collection in the 1980s and 1990s.

Brian Wilson collection (All reference numbers in this collection are prefixed with BW)

 

Maps

  1. BW/M/01

Title: A Plan of Land Boundaries to Right Honourable Lord Onslow in the Occupation of William      Garment
Description: Map of field boundaries – Woking ? Farm
Date: n.d.

  1. BW/M/02

Title: Map of Woking Parke
Description: Field boundaries
Date: 1709 (Added to collection 1/5/1995)

  1. BW/M/03

Title: None
Description: Field boundaries on Pyrford Court??
Date: n.d. Pre building of Pyrford Court

  1. BW/M/04

Title: Plan of Freehold Estate of Right Honourable Earl of Onslow
Description: Lots 50, 51, 52, 53, 54
Date: 28/6/1905

  1. BW/M/05

 Title: Plan of Freehold Estate of Right Honourable Earl of Onslow
Description: Lots 37 – 49
Date: 08/6/1905

  1. BW/M/06

Title: Plan of Freehold Estate of Right Honourable Earl of Onslow, Plan 9
Description: Lots 55-60
Date:  28/6/1905

  1. BW/M/07

Title: OS Map 1935 xv11.14 – Pyrford
Description: OS Map Pyrford
 Date: 1935

  1. BW/M/08

Title: OS Map 1935
Description: Ockham Mill and Wisley Common
 Date: 1935

  1. BM/M/09

Title: OS Map 1935 xv11.9
 Description: Woking Centre and Sheerwater
 Date: 1935

  1. BW/M/10

Title: OS Map 1935 xv11.13
Description: Woking South Hockering Estate
 Date: 1935

  1. BW/M/11

Title: OS Map 1914
Description: West Byfleet and Woodham
Date: 1914

  1. BW/M/12

Title: OS Survey 1936 xv11.11
Description: Wisley, The Anchor, West Hall
Date: 1936

  1. BW/M/13

Title: OS Map 1934
Description: Byfleet and Brooklands
Date: 1934

  1. BW/M 14

Title: OS Map 1897
Description: Ripley, Wisley Common, Ockham
Date: 1897

  1. BW/M/15

Title: OS Map 1920
Description: Old Woking and Pyrford
 Date: 1920

  1. BW/M/16

Title: OS Map 1934
Description: Pyrford
Date: 1934
  (2 copies)

  1. BW/M/17

Title: OS Map 1934
Description: Wisley-Byfleet
Date: 1934
(2 copies)

  1. BW/M/18

Title: Map of Pyrford Village
Description: Lady Place Farm, Warren Farm, Church Farm
Date: n.d.
 (6 copies)

  1. BW/M/19

Title: Plans for Pyrford Rough Estate
Description: Estate plans. In three parts.
Date: n.d.  Inter war years?

   20. BW/M/20

Title: Two hundred and fifty years of map-making in the County of Surrey [cartographic material] : a collection of reproductions of printed maps published between the years 1579-1823 : with introductory notes by William Ravenhill
Description:  1 atlas 29 leaves of plates. Map Authors: Christopher Saxton, Herman Moll, John Harris, John Norden, John Ogilby, John Rocque, John Seller, John Senex, John Speed, Pieter van den keere

Contents:

  • Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and Middlesex /​ C. Saxton, 1579
  • Surrey /​ J. Norden, 1594
  • Surrey …. /​ J. Speed, 1610
  • Strip road map …. /​ J. Ogilby, 1675
  • Surrey /​ J. Seller, 1690
  • Cantii, Southsexia Surriae et Middlesexiae /​ P. van den Keere, 1605
  • Surrey /​ H. Moll, 1724
  • Surrey /​ J. Senex, 1729
  • The ichonography or ground plan of Guldeford /​ J. Harris, 1739
  • Surrey /​ J. Rocque, 1768
  • Surrey /​ J. Lindley and W. Crosley, 1793
  • [Surrey before the railways] /​ O.S. (Old Series), 1811
  • Surrey /​ Chas. and J. Greenwood, 1823.

Files

  1. BW/F/01

Title: Local History
Content:
Street names of Pyrford
Typescript: ‘Pyrford: a dispersed village’ author Brian Wilson?
Brochures: Flower Show 1996, 1994
St Nicholas Parish Accounts circa 1700
Pyrford Parish Archive 17th century (Blue cover)
‘Pyrford in the seventeenth century’  (Ref. on cover p23 12710)
Index of Pyrford postcard collection location of postcards currently unknown
Documents relating to Wheelers Farm
Date: Various

  1. BW/F/02

Title: Pyrford:  Text, Maps, Drawings
Content:
Photocopies of Pyrford maps (Tithe map 1844, OS Survey 1881, 6” to mile OS 1879, OS1874, OS 1896, 1915 25 to mile, OS 1934, OS Land usage 1991, OS 1970-1972 1:2500)
Pyrford Place list of references
Census 1841
Census 1871
Christopher Saxon Map ¼” to mile
1610 map
John Seller map
1729 map, John Rocque map 1768 2” to mile
Lindley and Crosley maps
Catalogue of pictures in surrey, John Hassell
Booklet ‘History of Pyrford’ by Howard Cook
Booklet ‘St Nicholas Church Pyrford’
List of Parish Registers of Pyrford held at Guildford Muniment Room (now probably located elsewhere)
Victorian County History Vol 3 Entry for Pyrford
Woking History Journal ‘Place Names of Pyrford’
Brayley ‘History of Pyrford’
A pilgrimage in Surrey volume 1’ by  James Ogilvy
Maps in Surrey 1579 -1823
Manning and Bray section on Pyrford
Booklet ‘A short history of Pyrford and Wisley’ by Sylvia Lewin
Guides to organisations holding records.
Date: Various

  1. BW/F/03

Title: Pyrford Record
Content:
Roydon of Pyrford
Undated census
Census 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891
Tythe apportionments June 1844 inc ancient weather charcteristics
Baptisms/Burials 1665-1840
Burials 1841-1876
Baptisms 1841-1876
Name lists 1666 – 1876
Analyses – Parish
Census Material 1841-1851, 1871-1881

  1. BW/F/04

Title: None
Content:
Guildford muniment Room Ref 97/4/5a Manorial Court book 1747-1767
Inhabitants of Pyrford dwellings 1849-
Census 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891
(Martinsyde Aircraft information – not Pyrford related)
Records kept at Guildford Muniment Room Christenings, Burials, Marriages Wisley 1668-1812
Index of Wills Archdeaconry Court 1450– 1750
Wisley Index to Baptisms and Burials 1666-1812
Wisley Baptisms                                      1667-1812
Wisley Burials                                         1657-1812
Byfleet Baptisms                                    1698-1840
Date: Various

  1. BW/F/05

Title: Some Materials Towards a History of Wisley and Pyrford Parishes
Content: History of Wisley and Pyrford parishes edited by R. Ashington Bullen – reference work for many other histories of Pyrford
Date: c 1902 estimated from the fact he was Rector, 1901-1905

Photographs

  1. BW/P/01

28 photos
Page 1: St Nicholas; Church and Ford; Church and cottage; children in front of church
Page 2: Hoe Bridge; The Old House, Pyrford; The Old Village Gaol?; Coldharbour Rd
Page 3: St Nicholas Orthopaedic Hospital; St Nicholas Home for Crippled Children
Page 4: The Dutch garden , St Peter’s Home; South Quadrangle, St Peter’s Home; Westcott, The Rookery; Gatton Hall and Lake
Page 5: Smallfield Place; The Smiles ‘Home for Invalid Ladies’; Sutton Place Lady Weston’s Walk; Sutton Place, The Sunk Garden
Page 6: Bagshot Park; Bagshot House; Dorking The ?; The ? Bourne Hall, Ewell
Page 7: Esher Place; RHS?, Bagshot Park; Bagshot Park residence of HRH

______________________________________________________________

Research files by Matthew Sachak prefixed by MS. Research compiled c2013

  1. MS/F /01

Title: The Old House
Content:
Extract from Pevsner’s Surrey
Letters 1919
Booklet: ‘St Nicholas Pyrford: A guide and short history’
Booklet: A short history of Pyrford and Wisley’ by Sylvia Lewin
Article in Woking Review on underground passage
Heritage Notes by Iain Wakeford

  1. MS/F/02

Title: None
Content:
Materials relating to Old House

___________________________________________________________

Booklets/Papers produced by Dennis Jenkins.

1.DJ/B/01

Title: The History of Hare Hill Close
Description: Article copyright 2014 – 9 pages
Date: 26 January 2014

2.DJ/B/02

Title: Pyrford Hospitals:St Nicholas’/St Martin’s/Rowley Bristow
Description: Article copyright 2012 – 10 pages
Date: 2013

3.DJ/B/03

Title: Letter to Martin Doyle and HER Sites and Monuments Search Results: Pyrford
Description: Useful SCC contacts on founding PNF
Date: 4 July 2014

4.DJ/B/04

Title: Pyrford :Snippets About Places
Description: Places, streets and farms in Pyrford – 17 pages copyright 2014
Date: 26 January 2014

5.DJ/B/05

Title: Pyrford: Statistics in the Victorian and Edwardian Eras
Description: Demographics for 1841-1911 – 20 pages – copyright 2013
Date: 26 January 2014

6.DJ/C/06

Title: Woking Past & Present – War-Time Bombing
Description: Cutting from Surrey Advertiser covering the wartime bombing of 1 Lady Place Cottage – home of Ernie Elliots family
Date: 3 February 2017

____________________________________________________________

Other materials Donated by Tim Matthews:

NB : passed on from Giles A Allington, 54 Lovelace Drive, GU22 8QY

1.TM/D/01

Title:  An ACT for Inclofing Lands in the Manor of Pyrford, in the Parifhes of Pyrford and Chertfey, or one of them, in the County of Surrey              (45 GEO. III. Seff. 1805)
Description:  The Enclosure Act as applied to Pyrford – 25 pages
Date: 1805
 (Item also kept at Surrey History Centre reference number G53/114)

 

 

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