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Close Search. Category: Category name. Ring-bound to open out flat. Wimbledon is 7 miles north-east of Epsom. Wimbledon is 7 miles north of Banstead. Wimbledon is 8 miles north-east of Esher. Wimbledon is 9 miles east of Sunbury-on-Thames. Wimbledon is 10 miles east of Walton-on-Thames. Wimbledon is 10 miles north-west of Warlingham. Wimbledon is 10 miles north-east of Leatherhead.
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Wimbledon is 8 miles south-west of City of London. Wimbledon is 24 miles south of St Albans. Wimbledon is 37 miles south-west of Chelmsford. Wimbledon is 41 miles north of Brighton and Hove. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved. It is not improbable that the name of this place, which was anciently written Wymbaldon and Wymbeldon, was derived from one of its early proprietors.
I have seen ancient records in which the name of Wimbaldus occurs. Dune in the Saxon language signifies a hill. Wimbledon lies in the western division of Brixton hundred, and is situated about seven miles from Hyde-park-corner, being three miles south of Putney. The parish is bounded by those of Merton, Wandsworth, Putney, and Kingston.
In a survey of the manor, dated , this parish is said to contain acres of cultivated land; its whole extent is now calculated at about 2, acres, of which about are arable; 1, pasture; meadow; common; and wood. It may be observed, that this calculation includes acres of Lord Spencer's park, of which are pasture and arable. Two hundred acres of the wood are inclosed and regularly cut, the remaining acres constitute part of Wimbledon Common. The soil of this parish is very various, consisting of gravel; clay; black sand upon a stratum of gravel; black mould upon gravel and clay; sandy loam upon a clay bottom; and strong loam upon the same; the meadows are black moor earth.
In several parts of the parish the springs are very near the surface, and the ground swampy fn. Wimbledon is charged the sum of l. At the south-west angle of Wimbledon-common is a circular encampment with a single ditch; it includes a surface of about seven acres; the trench is deep and remains very perfect.
Camden, who says that this camp was called in his time Bensbury, is of opinion fn. In this engagement two of Ethelbert's generals, Oslac and Cnebba, were slain. On the same common, near the village, is a well, the water of which is never known to freeze in the most severe winter. In the early part of the present century there were annual races upon this common, which had then a King's plate fn. It has been before observed, that in all the very ancient records Wimbledon is described as a grange or farm within the manor of Mortlake, which accounts for its being omitted in the Conqueror's survey.
Archbishop Cranmer, whose predecessors had been possessed of this manor from the time of the Conquest fn. After his attainder it was settled upon Queen Catherine Parr for her life fn. Queen Mary granted it to Cardinal Pole fn.
Her successor Elizabeth first gave it to Sir Christopher Hatton fn. It is probable, notwithstanding the grant was made in his son's name, that he lived occasionally at the manor house. In the year he entertained Queen Elizabeth at his house at Wimbledon for three days fn. Immediately after his decease, which happened in , the manor was sold by his heirs to Henry Earl of Holland, and others, trustees for Queen Henrietta Maria fn.
The mansion at Wimbledon is mentioned among the houses belonging to the crown in the inventory of Charles the First's jewels and pictures fn. It is worthy of remark, that this unfortunate monarch was so little aware of the fate preparing for him by his enemies, that a few days before he was brought to trial, he ordered the seeds of some Spanish melons to be planted in his garden at Wimbledon fn.
When the crown lands were put up to sale, this manor, valued at l. It is probable that it was sold by him to General Lambert, who was lord of the manor in the year fn. After the return of Charles II.
The Duke, by his will, bearing date Jan. This manor was valued in Edward the Confessor's time at 32 l. The following customs formerly prevailed in this manor, some of which have now necessarily ceased:—On the first coming of every new archbishop, each customary tenant was obliged to present him with "a gyste called saddle sylver, accustomed to be five marks;" every person who held two yard-lands, or 30 acres, was liable to serve the office of beadle; and those who held three yard-lands, the office of reeve or provost.
Upon the death of every freeholder the lord was entitled to "his best horse, saddyl, brydell, spere, sworde, "boots, spores and armure, if he any should have fn. The manor-house, which was purchased of Sir Christopher Hatton by Sir Thomas Cecil, some years before he obtained a grant of the manerial estate fn. It received considerable damage by the accidental blowing up of some gunpowder in the year fn. It was upon its being repaired after this accident, perhaps, that the outside was painted in fresco by Francis Cleyne fn.
Fuller calls Wimbledon-house "a daring struc"ture;" and says, that by some it has been thought to equal Nonsuch, if not to exceed it fn. A very accurate and minute survey of the house and premises was taken by order of parliament in the year , the original of which is deposited in the Augmentation-office. The following account of the singular ascent to the north front will be found to correspond with the annexed plate, which is copied from an extremely rare if not an unique print in the possession of Richard Bull, Esq.
The Survey describes on the ground-floor, "a roome called the Stone Gallery, foote long, feeled over head, pillored and arched with gray marble, waynscotted round with oake waynscott varnished with greene and spotted with starrs of gould, and benched all along the sides and angles thereof;" in the middle was a grottoe wrought in the arch and sides thereof with sundry sorts of shells of great lustre and ornament, formed into the shapes of men, lyons, serpents, antick formes, and other rare devices;" also "fortie sights of seeing-glass sett together in one frame, much adorning and setting forth the splendour of the roome.
The lower parlour was "waynscotted with oake adorned with starres and cross patees of gould, the ceeling thereof a quadrat arch, in the middle of which hung one pinnacle perpendicular, garnished in every angle with coates of armes well-wrought and richly guilt. The whole house is said to have been of excellent good brick, "the angles, window-staunchions and jawmes all of ashler stone. The surveyors valued the house alone at l. The second plate of Wimbledon-house, here annexed, represents the garden front: it is copied from another rare print in the possession of Richard Bull, Esq.
The survey mentions "three great and sayer fig-trees, the branches "whereof by the spreading and dilating of themselves in a very large proporcion, but yet in a most decent manner, covered a very "greate part of the walls of the south side of the manor-house.
Mention is made of a muskmilion ground, "at the end of the kitchen-garden, trenched, manured, and very well ordered for the growth of musmilions. Wimbledon-house was pulled down by the Duchess of Marlborough in the early part of the present century, and rebuilt upon or near the site, after a design of the Earl of Pembroke.
This house, of which there is a view in the Vitruvius Britannicus fn. The ruins were cleared away, and the ground levelled and tursed, so as to leave scarcely a trace of its foundation. Some of the offices which were preserved from the flames have been elegantly sitted up, and are used as an occasional retirement by Lord Spencer's family. The situation is singularly eligible, having a beautiful home prospect of the park, with a fine piece of water towards the north, and an extensive view over the country of Surrey on the south.
The park, which contains about 1, acres, exhibits a beautiful variety of surface, and was planted and laid out with much taste by Brown. John Lynton, at the time of the survey above-mentioned, held certain lands of the lord by the service of rendering annually four horse-shoes fn. It appears by a record in the cartulary of the see of Canterbury fn. The church stands near the site of the manor-house, and at a considerable distance from the principal part of the village.
A church is mentioned in the Conqueror's survey as within the manor, which must have been that of Wimbledon, as there was no church at Mortlake till the reign of Edward III. The church has lately been rebuilt with grey-stock bricks, at the expence of about 2,l. The new church, which was opened July 7, , is sitted up in the Grecian style, and has galleries on the north, west, and south sides.
At the west end is a circular projection, on which is a square wooden tower with Gothic pinnacles of artificial stone, and in the centre a taper spire covered with copper. In the chancel, which underwent no alteration at the rebuilding of the church, and which seems to be of the 14th century, are some remains of painted glass, consisting principally of Gothic canopies.
In the north window are the figures of St. John the Baptist and St. Christopher, and that of a crusader completely armed.
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