Haslemere Town and Swan Barn
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- In this video Cynthia and I take a walk round Haslemere to have a look at the buildings that are there in the high street.
We also look at the Haslemere Town Well where Haslemere's last water carrier Hannah Oakford charged a penny ha'penny per bucket of water to deliver water to the houses in the town.
Hannah died in 1898
The Haslemere Riot of 29 July 1855 during which Police Inspector William Donaldson was murdered, becoming the first police officer serving in the Surrey Constabulary to be killed in the course of his duty. Inspector Donaldson is remembered each year at a ceremony of the last Sunday of July
Information from Wikipedia
Early history
The earliest evidence for human activity in the Haslemere area is from the Neolithic. Flints dating from 4000 to 2400 BCE were discovered during archaeological surveys conducted prior to the construction of the Hindhead Tunnel. There may have been a settlement in the area in the mid-late Bronze Age[22] and a Romano-British cemetery was discovered on the site of Beech Road, to the north of the town centre, at the start of the 20th century.[23][24]
Governance
Town Well - one of the old wells which served the area (at the end of Well Lane)
Neither Shottermill nor Haslemere are directly mentioned in Domesday Book, but the land on which the two settlements are now located was divided between the Farnham and Godalming Hundreds respectively. The south western corner of Surrey is thought to have been sparsely populated in the 11th century, but it is possible that some of the mills listed under the entry for Farnham, were located on the Wey in the Shottermill area.[25]
The first indication of a settlement at Haslemere is from 1180, when there is a record of a "Chapel of Piperham".[2] The chapel belonged to the Parish of Chiddingfold, part of the manor of Godalming and is thought to have been either on or close to the site of the current St Bartholomew's Church.[12] There may also have been a settlement on Haste Hill, to the south east of the town centre, and there are references to "Churchliten field" and the "Old church-yard" in records of the area.[26]
The first use of the modern name Haslemere is from 1221, when permission for a market was given to Richard Poore, Bishop of Salisbury, indicating that the settlement was sufficiently large to be considered a town.[2] In 1397, Richard II granted a charter to the settlement, confirming the order from 1221 and permitting an annual fair to be held in the town.[27] The town remained in the possession of the Bishops of Salisbury until c. 1540, when it was purchased by the Crown.[28]
The bust of Elizabeth I by Malcolm Stathers was installed in Charter Walk in 2001.[29]
The first indication of a settlement at Shottermill is from 1285, when reference is made to a Manor of Pitfold, covering the extreme southern portion of Farnham Hundred. From 1344, the manor was held by Edward III, but was granted to the Convent of Dartford in 1362. The land remained in the convent's possession until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536,[30] when it reverted to the Crown. A new charter was issued to Haslemere town by Elizabeth I in 1596. Today, this special status is celebrated with the Charter fair, held once every two years in the High Street.[31]
Reforms during the Tudor period replaced the day-to-day administration of towns such as Haslemere in the hands of the vestry of the parish church.[32][33] The vestry was charged with appointing a parish constable, running a lock-up, maintaining local roads and administering poor relief.[34] In 1839, many administrative responsibilities were transferred to the Hambledon Rural District Council and in 1863, the civil parish of Haslemere was created, although local elections did not take place until the following year. In 1896, the Surrey Times praised the town's authorities, writing: "No parish council in the country has done better work than the Haslemere council. Sanitation, allotments, charities, lighting, roads, footpaths and waste lands have all been thoroughly and prudently looked after."[35] A further change took place in 1913, when town was removed from the Hambledon Rural District and the Parish Council was promoted to the status of an Urban District Council (UDC).[36] Initially the UDC was based at the Town Hall, but moved in 1926 to a building on Museum Hill, which had been vacated by the Haslemere Educational Museum.[37]
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Thanks Kevin, I haven’t walked through Haslemere for years, brought back memories.
Thank you Phillip, Lots of changes over the years
My first job was at the Midland Bank - as it was known then - the white building (now empty) on the West side of the High street next to the Comrades club. Indeed I used to have my lunch at The Swan every day - they allowed me to park my motorbike in their car park! 41 years ago.....seems like yesterday! Sad to see so many empty shops & offices.
Thanks Dave, yes very sad to see so many empty shops 😢 but its the same everywhere I think
What a lovely video, thank you so much for this Gem
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We love the beautiful building in Haslemere. Thank you, Kevin and Cynthia for sharing your walk around town and through the woods. Bryan & Donna
Thank you Bryan and Donna 😊
The other half volunteered with the National Trust from that building years ago. I never knew that till today. Thank you for this walk, I enjoyed it.
Thank you Kerry, the things you find out from watching a video 😊
Informative as ever Kevin,thanks.
Thank you David 😊
Haslemere has so many lovely old properties! I’m particularly drawn to the Whymper’s gorgeous town house, how I would love to see inside it!
Thank you Audrey, I agree i would love to see inside the town house :-)
Even on a grey, wet, muddy walk the landscape still looks stunning. The poor town looks rather sad with all those empty properties. The 'high street' will soon become 'history', maybe there will be another plaque to commemorate its 'passing!' I bet Hanna Oakford never imagined that she would be remembered so many years later. Good for her.
Thanks Andrew 😊 it certainly was muddy and wet,
As you could tell even though there wasn't anybody walking through the high street the road was still busy :-(.
I think it is important to bring the names from our past to the here and now.
It’s really not that bad.
Great walk. A very interesting place !
Thanks Michael 😊 🙏
Hi Michael, for some reason your comment on my latest video will not open up when I click on it?
@@KevinsRambles l will leave another comment Kevin
Doing family genealogy, I traced an ancestor back to this place...in 1586! I wanted to see what it looked like. Charming 😊
Thank you, Anita 😊.
Haslemere has changed quite a lot since 1586, as you can imagine.
Haslemere is and has been for a long time now a commuter town.
The railway station is on the main London to Portsmouth line, you get to London in an hour, but you are also very close to Blackdown where there are many walks with stunning views then 35 minutes from the south coast.
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It’s doing ok compared with other areas in terms of the high street etc. Very nice place.
Thanks K Rob 😊
@@KevinsRambles no problem. I never knew surrey had this type of high street
Was a great walk but, oh that mud! 😂
Thanks Cynthia, yes the mud was terrible and I didn't show everything we went through
Spent the first 17 e=years of my life there
Thank you, Narendra 😊.
I hope they were a happy 17 years?
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@@KevinsRambles 1956-1960, Grayswood Place, Three Gates Lane - this was when it was one house. And haunted. Check out the Haslemere Museum - teenage girl threw herself out of an upper-storey window years before and Museum told us that no owner had been able to live there more than a couple of years. We had to move out in a hurry as it affected my Mum badly, and I also had horrible nightmares. Have written many pages about this in my autobio.
Went to Shalimar, Bunch Lane, next to Inval House with Mark & Ursula Carter. My Dad built the pool and tennis court there. 1960-1967
Then to Hill Farm, Camelsdale Rd, where my Dad also built the pool and tennis court. 1967-1976
Haslemere town .... Reid's the Chemist; Nobbs Bookshop and Stationery; The Old Forge Tea Cafe; Denny Stone the Tailor's in West Street (?); and the Esso Petrol Station with petrol at 4/- a gallon! Damn, I must be old....
@@narendrasethia2173 Thank you very much for all that information, really interesting about the young girl, but very sad :-(. I hope you and your Mum were ok eventually once you had left there? Hill Farm isn't far from where Cynthia lives who helps with and is in lots of my videos. I would think you and I would have crossed paths at some point? I spent many years living in Haslemere and prior to that as a teenager. May I ask who you might have known in Haslemere? and what is the title of your Auto-bio? Interesting that you lived next to Inval House, A large part of the house was knocked down, it was just the original bit left standing. A huge new house is now Inval house. Steve who also helps me was the project manager of the new house.
@@KevinsRambles No name yet for my autobio but there's another book which centres around my life - "Secrets of the Conqueror" by Stuart Prebble
I don't remember many people - Mrs Barnacle who had a tea place overlooking the car park; Denny Stone, the tailor on the corner of West St and High St; Bill Spiers who lived up the Hindhead Road; the Carters who lived at Inval. Memory fading!
@narendrasethia2173 are you on Facebook? I would like to run an idea past you.