Hundred of Blackheath, Surrey
51°12′22″N 0°31′23″W / 51.206°N 0.523°W Blackheath Hundred or the Hundred of Blackheath was a
Use and significance
Though used for entirely secular purposes, it consisted of eleven parishes which in the polity of England from the Norman Conquest until the late 19th century had dual secular and religious functions. Its economic unity was shattered like most hundreds given the rise of smaller manors 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.[1][2]
History
The
Charles II granted the £100 rent and the reversion for 1,000 years legally to Viscount Grandison, Henry Howard, and Edward Villiers, in reality in trust for the first's daughter, his most favoured mistress, who he later created Duchess of Cleveland.
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 Lord Onslow in 1752.[2] 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.
References
- ^ ISBN 0901050679.
- ^ a b c H.E. Malden, ed. (1911). "The hundred of Blackheath: Introduction and map". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 30 January 2014.