Godley Hundred
Godley is a hundred of Surrey, in the north-west of the county.
Agreat part of the hundred was in the Middle Ages owned by Chertsey Abbey: Egham, Thorpe, Chertsey and Chobham are all mentioned in the Chertsey Abbey charter of 673AD due to a donation by Frithuwold underking of Surrey. Much of the hundred is heathland, the greater villages and later towns growing on the fertile alluvial soil bordering the River Thames.
Godley appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Godelie. Its manors are given as Chobham, Egham, Thorpe, Chertsey, Pyrford and Byfleet. Pyrford, though within the Godley hundred was, unusually, in the Woking parish, most of which belongs to the Woking Hundred.[1]
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Blackheath • Brixton • Copthorne • Effingham (half) • Elmbridge • Farnham • Godalming • Godley • Kingston • Reigate • Tandridge • Wallington • Woking • Wotton |