Stoke d'Abernon
Encyclopedia
Stoke d'Abernon is a small village situated between Cobham
and Leatherhead
in the county of Surrey
. The census area Oxshott and Stoke d'Abernon has a population of 6,100.
administrative district of Elmbridge
hundred
. Stoke d'Abernon appears in Domesday Book
of 1086 as Stoche. It was held by Richard Fitz Gilbert
. Its Domesday assets were: 2 hide
s; 2 virgate
s 5 acres (20,234.3 m²); 1 church, 2 mill
s worth 13s, 4 plough
s, 6 ox
en, 4 acres (16,187.4 m²) of meadow
, woodland
worth 40 hogs. It rendered £5. The suffix d'Abernon comes from a family who came over at the time of the Norman conquest
in 1066. Its church, St Mary's, is Saxon with Norman
and Victorian additions, and is famous for its monumental brass
es, among them the oldest in the country.
because Cobham was located too far north for the line to be effectively routed to it when constructed at the end of the 19th century. The signage at the station however displays the word "d'Abernon" with a capital "D", ie. "D'Abernon".
Stoke d'Abernon is also home to the training ground
of Premier League football
club Chelsea
.
The local pub-restaurant is The Old Plough.
The village has an active residents' association with a network of road representatives http://www.stokedabernon-residents.org.uk/ but as with neighbouring Cobham and Oxshott
, unlike similar groups in the rest of Elmbridge http://elmbridge.residents-association.com/ it does not contest elections.
The local newspaper is the Cobham News and Mail.
prep school
located at the grade II listed manor house adjacent to the parish church of St. Mary, which was founded in 1879.
lor is shared with Cobham
with Elmbridge councillor for Cobham
and Downside
John V.C. Butcher http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/cwcouncillor/JohnButcher/default.htm selected as Conservative candidate for June 2009 elections.
Elmbridge
ward councillor for Stoke d'Abernon since 1992, and resident in the village, James Vickers http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/committees/memberdetails.htm?conid=586 is due to be the Mayor of Elmbridge 2009-10 is deputy Mayor 2008-09. Both the other ward members for Oxshott
and Stoke serve in the Conservative-run Cabinet of Elmbridge
Borough.
Yehudi Menuhin
(whose full title was Baron Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon in the County of Surrey) founded his music school
to the south of the village.
The distinguished diplomat Sir Edgar Vincent
(1857-1941) lived locally in the early 20th century and took the title Viscount D'Abernon.
The England Test cricketer and captain, Bob Willis
, grew up in the village and learnt to play at several local village clubs before his professional career in the 1970s and 80s.
Cobham, Surrey
Cobham is a town in the Borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, England, about south-west of central London and north of Leatherhead. Elmbridge has been acclaimed by the Daily Mail as the best place to live in the UK, and Cobham is a prosperous part of the London commuter belt...
and Leatherhead
Leatherhead
Leatherhead is a town in the County of Surrey, England, on the River Mole, part of Mole Valley district. It is thought to be of Saxon origin...
in the county of Surrey
Surrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
. The census area Oxshott and Stoke d'Abernon has a population of 6,100.
History
Stoke d’Abernon lay within the Anglo-SaxonAnglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxon is a term used by historians to designate the Germanic tribes who invaded and settled the south and east of Great Britain beginning in the early 5th century AD, and the period from their creation of the English nation to the Norman conquest. The Anglo-Saxon Era denotes the period of...
administrative district of Elmbridge
Elmbridge (hundred)
Elmbridge Hundred or the Hundred of Elmbridge was an ancient hundred in the north of the county of Surrey, England. The majority of its area forms the borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, with the remainder now forming part of Greater London....
hundred
Hundred (division)
A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in England, Wales, Denmark, South Australia, some parts of the United States, Germany , Sweden, Finland and Norway, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions...
. Stoke d'Abernon appears in Domesday Book
Domesday Book
Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...
of 1086 as Stoche. It was held by Richard Fitz Gilbert
Richard Fitz Gilbert
Richard fitz Gilbert , was a Norman lord who participated in the Norman conquest of England in 1066. He was also known as "de Bienfaite", "de Clare", and "de Tonbridge".-Biography:...
. Its Domesday assets were: 2 hide
Hide (unit)
The hide was originally an amount of land sufficient to support a household, but later in Anglo-Saxon England became a unit used in assessing land for liability to "geld", or land tax. The geld would be collected at a stated rate per hide...
s; 2 virgate
Virgate
The virgate or yardland was a unit of land area measurement used in medieval England, typically outside the Danelaw, and was held to be the amount of land that a team of two oxen could plough in a single annual season. It was equivalent to a quarter of a hide, so was nominally thirty acres...
s 5 acres (20,234.3 m²); 1 church, 2 mill
Mill (grinding)
A grinding mill is a unit operation designed to break a solid material into smaller pieces. There are many different types of grinding mills and many types of materials processed in them. Historically mills were powered by hand , working animal , wind or water...
s worth 13s, 4 plough
Plough
The plough or plow is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture...
s, 6 ox
Ox
An ox , also known as a bullock in Australia, New Zealand and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle; castration makes the animals more tractable...
en, 4 acres (16,187.4 m²) of meadow
Meadow
A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by grass and other non-woody plants . The term is from Old English mædwe. In agriculture a meadow is grassland which is not grazed by domestic livestock but rather allowed to grow unchecked in order to make hay...
, woodland
Woodland
Ecologically, a woodland is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade. Woodlands may support an understory of shrubs and herbaceous plants including grasses. Woodland may form a transition to shrubland under drier conditions or during early stages of...
worth 40 hogs. It rendered £5. The suffix d'Abernon comes from a family who came over at the time of the Norman conquest
Norman conquest of England
The Norman conquest of England began on 28 September 1066 with the invasion of England by William, Duke of Normandy. William became known as William the Conqueror after his victory at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, defeating King Harold II of England...
in 1066. Its church, St Mary's, is Saxon with Norman
Norman architecture
About|Romanesque architecture, primarily English|other buildings in Normandy|Architecture of Normandy.File:Durham Cathedral. Nave by James Valentine c.1890.jpg|thumb|200px|The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the...
and Victorian additions, and is famous for its monumental brass
Monumental brass
Monumental brass is a species of engraved sepulchral memorial which in the early part of the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood...
es, among them the oldest in the country.
Present day
It has its own railway station, named Cobham & Stoke d'AbernonCobham & Stoke D'Abernon railway station
Cobham & Stoke D'Abernon railway station is situated in the village of Stoke d'Abernon in Surrey, England. It also serves the nearby town of Cobham. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South West Trains...
because Cobham was located too far north for the line to be effectively routed to it when constructed at the end of the 19th century. The signage at the station however displays the word "d'Abernon" with a capital "D", ie. "D'Abernon".
Stoke d'Abernon is also home to the training ground
Cobham Training Centre
The Cobham Training Centre is the state of the art training ground of Chelsea Football Club located in Stoke d'Abernon near Cobham, Surrey. The Chelsea first team have trained at Cobham since 2005, but it was not officially opened until 2007.-History:...
of Premier League football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
club Chelsea
Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
.
The local pub-restaurant is The Old Plough.
The village has an active residents' association with a network of road representatives http://www.stokedabernon-residents.org.uk/ but as with neighbouring Cobham and Oxshott
Oxshott
Oxshott is a village in Surrey, England with a growing population of around 6,100. Neighbouring settlements include: Chessington, Claygate and Cobham. It is situated in fields and woodlands between Esher and Leatherhead on the A244, five minutes by car from both the A3 and the M25 London Orbital...
, unlike similar groups in the rest of Elmbridge http://elmbridge.residents-association.com/ it does not contest elections.
The local newspaper is the Cobham News and Mail.
Education
Parkside Preparatory School is an independentIndependent school
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...
prep school
Preparatory school
Preparatory school or prep school may refer to:*University-preparatory school, a school in North America that is a private secondary school, typically charging high fees, designed to prepare students aged 14–18 for higher education at a university or college*Preparatory school , an independent...
located at the grade II listed manor house adjacent to the parish church of St. Mary, which was founded in 1879.
Administration
The Surrey County CouncilSurrey County Council
Surrey County Council is the county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Surrey in England. The council is composed of 80 elected councillors.The council is controlled by the Conservative party.The leader of the council is David Hodge....
lor is shared with Cobham
Cobham
- Towns or districts :* Cobham, Kent, England* Cobham, Surrey, England* Cobham, Virginia , multiple places- Other place names :* Cobham Intermediate School* Cobham Sports and Social Club...
with Elmbridge councillor for Cobham
Cobham
- Towns or districts :* Cobham, Kent, England* Cobham, Surrey, England* Cobham, Virginia , multiple places- Other place names :* Cobham Intermediate School* Cobham Sports and Social Club...
and Downside
Downside, Surrey
Downside is a small village in the English county of Surrey, part of Cobham and Downside ward in the local government district of Elmbridge. Downside Village was designated as a Conservation Area in 1979....
John V.C. Butcher http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/cwcouncillor/JohnButcher/default.htm selected as Conservative candidate for June 2009 elections.
Elmbridge
Elmbridge
Elmbridge is a local government district and borough in Surrey, England. Its council is based in Esher. The district has only one civil parish, which is Claygate...
ward councillor for Stoke d'Abernon since 1992, and resident in the village, James Vickers http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/committees/memberdetails.htm?conid=586 is due to be the Mayor of Elmbridge 2009-10 is deputy Mayor 2008-09. Both the other ward members for Oxshott
Oxshott
Oxshott is a village in Surrey, England with a growing population of around 6,100. Neighbouring settlements include: Chessington, Claygate and Cobham. It is situated in fields and woodlands between Esher and Leatherhead on the A244, five minutes by car from both the A3 and the M25 London Orbital...
and Stoke serve in the Conservative-run Cabinet of Elmbridge
Elmbridge
Elmbridge is a local government district and borough in Surrey, England. Its council is based in Esher. The district has only one civil parish, which is Claygate...
Borough.
Notable people
William Marshal who was regent of England from 1217-1219 spent his honeymoon here in the summer of 1189 with his new wife, Isabelle de Clare.Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
(whose full title was Baron Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon in the County of Surrey) founded his music school
Yehudi Menuhin School
The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Surrey, England. It was founded in 1963 by the violinist Yehudi Menuhin.The School also gives pupils the best musical education any specialist schools can with a number of internationally main teachers, Simon Fischer , Natalya Boyarskaya ,...
to the south of the village.
The distinguished diplomat Sir Edgar Vincent
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, GCB, GCMG, PC, FRS was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author.-Early life:...
(1857-1941) lived locally in the early 20th century and took the title Viscount D'Abernon.
The England Test cricketer and captain, Bob Willis
Bob Willis
Robert George Dylan Willis MBE , known as Bob Willis, is a former English cricketer who played for Surrey, Warwickshire, Northern Transvaal and England...
, grew up in the village and learnt to play at several local village clubs before his professional career in the 1970s and 80s.
See also
- Yehudi MenuhinYehudi MenuhinYehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
, Baron Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon in the County of SurreySurreySurrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...