Working in Surrey County England History and Geography

WORKING, a parish (formerly a market town) in the first division of the hundred of WOKING, county of SURREY, 2½ miles (W. by N.) from Ripley, containing 1810 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £11. 0. 5., and in the patronage of Earl Onslow. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is partly in the early, and partly in the decorated, style of English architecture: it contains some brasses and a few monuments, and the windows exhibit fragments of ancient stained glass. The Basingstoke canal passes through the parish, and the town is situated on the river Wey; but its market, formerly held on Tuesday, is now disused. There is a fair on Whit-Tuesday; and courts leet and baron are occasionally held. This was one of the royal demesnes of Edward the Confessor; and was afforested in 1154, by Henry II., whose successor gave it to Alan, Lord Basset; but, in the reign of Edward II., it belonged to the Despencers, and on their attainder was given, by Edward III., to Edmund of Woodstock, from which time it had various distinguished owners till the time of Edward IV., who, it is recorded, kept his Christmas in 1480, at the royal palace of Woking. Henry VII. afterwards repaired and enlarged it, for the residence of his mother, Margaret, Countess of Richmond, who died there. Henry VIII. used it as a summer retreat, where he sometimes entertained Wolsey, and on one of these occasions, in September 1551, that prelate was first informed, by a letter from the pope, of his elevation to the dignity of Cardinal. James I. granted Woking to Sir Edward Zouch; but, in the reign of Charles I., it again belonged to the Crown, and was bestowed upon Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland; it subsequently passed, by purchase, through various hands to Richard, Lord Onslow, an ancestor of Earl Onslow, its present proprietor. There are now no remains of the palace, except its foundations and a portion of the walls of the guard-room; the Zouches having removed the greater part of the building, to erect another mansion in the neighbourhood. Sutton House, a fine specimen of the style of building which prevailed in the sixteenth century, was erected, in 1529, by Sir Richard Weston: it was of a quadrangular form, enclosing a square area eighty feet in dimensions, with a noble gateway, having lofty hexagonal turrets at the angles. A great part of this magnificent structure was burned down, during a visit of Queen Elizabeth, and the remainder, consisting of the south-west side and north-east front, continued in a ruinous state till 1721, when it was repaired and embellished by the late John Weston, Esq.

From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale

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