East Clandon is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in Surrey, England on the A246 between the towns of Guildford to the west and

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to the east. Neighbouring villages include

West Clandon West Clandon is a village in Surrey, EnglandOS Explorer map 145:Guildford and Farnham. Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton. within 1 mile of the A3. It is situated one mile north west of the much smaller separate villa ...

and

West Horsley West Horsley is a semi-rural village between Guildford and Leatherhead in Surrey, England. It lies on the A246, and south of the M25 and the A3. Its civil parish ascends to an ancient woodland Sheepleas Woods which are on the northern downsl ...

. In 2011 it had a population of 268 in 109 households clustered around three buildings, the church of St Thomas of Canterbury, ''The Queen's Head'' pub and the village hall. Centred east of Guildford, the parish landscape on the lower slopes of the

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includes the 1,836-acre Ryde Farm Estate,

Hatchlands Park Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens in East Clandon, Surrey, England, covering 170 hectares (430 acres). It is located near Guildford along the A246 between East Clandon and West Horsley. Hatchlands Park has be ...

, a

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estate, arable and livestock farmland, woodlands, High Clandon Vineyard and Clandon Regis Golf Club.

History

Early history

The word Clandon (first recorded as Clanedune) goes back to Anglo-Saxon times, meaning "clean down" (open downland) from the

hills that rise to the south of the village. People settled here due to the availability of water that emerged where the high

chalk Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor. Ch ...

downs meet the lower lying

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to the north.

Chertsey Abbey Chertsey Abbey, dedicated to St Peter, was a Benedictine monastery located at Chertsey in the English county of Surrey. It was founded in 666 AD by Saint Erkenwald who was the first abbot, and from 675 AD the Bishop of London. At the same time ...

, a

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foundation, was patron of East Clandon from the

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of 1066 to the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. East Clandon appears in

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as ''Clanedun''. It was held by Chertsey Abbey. Its assets were then: 4 hides; 7 ploughs, woodland for 6 hogs. It rendered £6 per year to its overlords. In ancient documents the village is also often referred to as ''Clandon Abbatis'' (Abbot's Clandon). The church was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and is a Grade I listed building (the highest category). The main addition to it has been a bell tower added in 1900. In 1544 Henry VIII granted East Clandon Manor to Sir Anthony Browne. The manor house, thought to have been close to where

now is, was moated since times of unrest in the early 14th century. The house, and with it the village, changed hands many times during the next 200 years. The oldest houses in the village, Frogmore Cottage, Lamp Cottage, Old Manor Farm, Tunmore Cottage among others, had already been built when the London brewer John Raymond sold the Hatchlands Park estate to

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in 1749. The present Hatchlands House was built for him with the help of

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from his victory over the French, and it was completed in 1758, only three years before the Admiral died.

1761 to present

From 1768 the Sumner family owned the Hatchlands estate until it was bought at auction in 1888 by Lord Rendel. In 1913 his eldest daughter's son Captain

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inherited the estate in trust. The captain was a professional architect and took a great interest in the village and its inhabitants. According to the writings of Maurice Wiggin, Goodhart-Rendel was a tall,

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, upright figure making his daily round in the village dressed in his grey tweed suit and soft brown

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shouting to his dogs in a real Grenadier's voice. Every Christmas this 'squire' gave a children's tea party at Hatchlands, complete with Christmas tree and gifts for all comers.

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concerts are still held at Hatchlands for villagers today. Several houses in the village were built to his drawings, including Antler's Corner, Appletree Cottage, Meadow Cottage and 5 School Lane (1910), Prospect Cottages (1914), Snelgate Cottages (1926) and the St Thomas' Housing Society Cottages (1947). In 1945 the Hatchlands house, park and some land were given to the

. When Captain Goodhart-Rendel died in 1959 the estate passed into the hands of two relatives, a split he regarded with misgivings. Late 20th century owners, the Dunne-Ritche estate, sold most houses around 1970, but a few still remain in their possession. The TV series ''

Catweazle ''Catweazle'' is a British children's fantasy television series, starring Geoffrey Bayldon in the title role, and created by Richard Carpenter for London Weekend Television. The first series, produced and directed in 1969 by Quentin Lawren ...

'' was shot in East Clandon (on Home Farm), West Horsley and the surrounding area in summer 1969. Home Farm still hosts the annual Hexwood Summer Fete.

Notable residents of East Clandon

Sir Anthony Browne 1500–1548. Standard bearer of England. Owner of Manor of East Clandon. Thomas Goffe 1591–1629. A minor Jacobean playwright. Rector of East Clandon Admiral Edward Boscawen. 1711–1761. Builder of Hatchlands Park. Stuart, Baron Rendel 1834–1913. Founder of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and owner of Hatchlands Park. Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel. 1887–1959. Architect and

Slade Professor of Fine Art The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London. History The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collect ...

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. President of the

Royal Institute of British Architects The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supp ...

. Owner of Hatchlands Park. Francis Octavius Grenfell VC. Recipient of the first Victoria Cross of the First World War; born at Hatchlands Park. Sir Freddie Laker. 1922–2006. Airline pioneer. Lived at New Manor Farm.

Demography and housing

The average proportion of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remainder is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).

References

External links

Official East Clandon website
{{authority control Villages in Surrey Borough of Guildford Civil parishes in Surrey