Start:- TQ222578
Distance 11.22km; 6.97 miles
Time taken:- 3 hours 24 minutes
Route:-
| Epsom
Downs "the Hill" CP - Nohome Farm - Twistwood - Costal Wood -
Headley church - Addlestead Wood - Thirty Acre Barn - Langley Vale farm -
Walton Downs - CP This walk was led by a member of Mole Valley Ramblers. Headley appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as the manor of Hallega. It was held by Radulfus (Ralph) de Felgeres. Its Domesday assets were: 2 hides; 6 ploughs, woodland worth 15 hogs. It rendered £5 per year to its overlords. The survey records that the manor was held before the conquest by Countess Goda (the mother of King Harold) and it had been granted to her by King Edward the Confessor. Halle(g)a means a clearing in the heather, which is appropriate considering the village's position on a large patch of acidic topsoil of the generally alkaline North Downs. The church, dedicated to St Mary and designed by Anthony Salvin, was built in 1855, with an added tower of 1859 by G. E. Street. It is built from relatively local flint rubble and is listed Grade II.
Headley's land lay in the Saxons' Copthorne Hundred. As
Saxon records are scant and the church and population were smaller, no church
in Headley was known during this period; the first records of a church are
after the Norman Conquest. Next to the present 19th-century church is a grotto,
constructed using materials from the earlier 15th-century church and placed
over the grave of the Revd Ferdinand Faithful.
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