Frensham, Surrey

Historical Description

Frensham, a village and a parish in Surrey. The village lies on an affluent of the river Wey, 4 miles from Farnham station on the L. & S.W.R., and contiguous to the boundary with Hants. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Famham. Acreage of the civil parish, 8665 of land and 142 of water; population, 2697; of the ecclesiastical, 893. The parish contains also the tithing of Docken-field with a population of 259, Much of the surface is heathy and wild. A lake, called Frensham Great Pond, measures about 3 miles in circuit, and is a resort of large numbers of wild fowl. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Winchester; value, £340. Patron, the Archdeacon of Surrey. The church is partly Early English, has a square tower, and contains in its belfry an ancient copper cauldron, 2 feet in diameter, on a rude iron trivet, probably of similar character to public utensils which anciently existed in many parishes, but about which many legendary tales are told. The font is early 13th century. Pierrepont and Frensham Place are chief residences. The perpetual curacies of Shottermill and Churt are separate benefices..

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Surrey History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Surrey online.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Frensham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Frensham (St. Mary))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Frensham are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Surrey papers online:

• Surrey Mirror
• Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser
• Surrey Advertiser

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Surrey, 1662-1668 is available on the Heraldry page.