Dorking in Wotton Hundred

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'The hundred of Wotton: Introduction and map', in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H E Malden (London, 1911), p. 128. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/p128 [accessed 25 February 2021].

THE HUNDRED OF WOTTON, CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF:

• ABINGER
• DORKING
• WOTTON (fn. 1)
• CAPEL
• OCKLEY

Wotton Hundred (fn. 2) (Odeton, xi cent.; Wodetone, until xvi cent.) was found by the Domesday Commissioners to include Dorking, Sutton in Shiere, part of Compton in Sussex, Burgham, Wyke, Worplesdon, Betchworth, Milton, Anstie Farm, Abinger, and Paddington. Of these, Sutton in Shiere was shortly afterwards attached by the Bishop of Bayeux to his manor of Bramley in Blackheath Hundred, (fn. 3) while Compton, as the county borders became more settled, was presumably included in Sussex with the other lands of Roger de Montgomery, who held it at the time of the Survey. It has been suggested that Burgham, Wyke, and Worplesdon owed their inclusion in Wotton Hundred (fn. 4) to a clerical error, and it was possibly due to the same cause that Ockley at the time of the Survey was placed in Woking. It seems probable that 'Becheworth' refers to East Betchworth, now in Reigate Hundred: Milton and Anstie Farm are both in Dorking parish.

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