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ESTATES OF JOHN GAINSFORD OF CROWHURST PLACE IN CROWHURST, LINGFIELD AND TANDRIDGE: MAP, 1679
Reference Number: 6960
Descriptive Information about the Record (click to expand) Provenance Purchased from Mr A Whittaker of Brenchley, Kent, in February 2001.
-Introduction The Gainsford family held land in Crowhurst from c.1331, when John de Gaynesford purchased the manor of Crowhurst (British Library Harleian MSs 392ff.14 and 15a). Crowhurst Place may have been constructed around 1418, when land of that name was purchased by John Gaynesford (Harleian MSs 392 f.13b).
The family continued to hold the Crowhurst estate until Mary Christmas, granddaughter of the John Gainsford for whom the survey was conducted, sold it in 1720.
The reason for the commission of a survey of the estates of John Gainsford (1646-c.1690) in 1679 is not clear. The estate was subject to a settlement by John's father Erasmus Gainsford (1604-1672), made on John's first marriage to Anne Gape in 1669. Following Anne's death in in 1671, John married Mirabella Edge, and their first child was born (and died) in 1673. By 1679, John had two female heirs: Elizabeth from his first marriage, and Mirabella by his second (the respective rights of each under the terms of the settlement were not disputed until after John's death). No estate records are held to indicate whether it was intended that the land be mortgaged or otherwise divided at that time, although the references added to the field parcels suggest that the plan was used to organise the holding into several plots, probably at a later date.
The surveyor Edward Bostock Fuller may have been of the Bostock Fuller family of Tandridge Court, related to the Gainsford family by the marriage of Frances Gainsford to Bostock Fuller in Lingfield in 1590 (however, the Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Mapmakers cited below describes him as son of Richard Fuller and Katherine nee Bostock of Uckfield, Sussex, although giving him as resident at Tandridge).
-The records The map is the earliest known work by the surveyor Edward Bostock Fuller (the Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Mapmakers dates his work as 1687-1696).
-Related records For transcript of an inquisition post mortem of John Gaynesford of 1560, describing his estates and the manors of Crowhurst and Newlands and lands in Tandridge and Godstone, see 3924/11/56.
Deeds relating to the Gainsford estates are held at the British Library (see Annals of the House of Gainsford cited below). A plan of the manors of Blockfield, Fords and Dormans, Lingfield, 1608 x 1613, belonging to the Carshalton branch of the Gainsford family, is held as 2192/-.
Other known maps by Edward Bostock Fuller are held at the Guildhall Library and Kensington Central Library.
William Dunn Gainsford ed., Annals of the House of Gainsford.....between the years AD 1331 and AD 1909 (Horncastle, Lincs, 1909) describes inter alia the accumulation of the Crowhurst estates from 1331, citing extracts from the British Library Harleian MSs, and describes the descent of the estate to 1909. It also includes photographs of Crowhurst Place.
P Eden and S Bendall eds., Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Map-Makers of Great Britain and Ireland, 1530-1850 (British Library, 1997)
HE Malden ed., Victoria History of the County of Surrey, Vol IV (London, 1912)
-Related records For transcript of an inquisition post mortem of John Gaynesford of 1560, describing his estates and the manors of Crowhurst and Newlands and lands in Tandridge and Godstone, see 3924/11/56.
Deeds relating to the Gainsford estates are held at the British Library (see Annals of the House of Gainsford cited below). A plan of the manors of Blockfield, Fords and Dormans, Lingfield, 1608 x 1613, belonging to the Carshalton branch of the Gainsford family, is held as 2192/-.
Other known maps by Edward Bostock Fuller are held at the Guildhall Library and Kensington Central Library.
William Dunn Gainsford ed., Annals of the House of Gainsford.....between the years AD 1331 and AD 1909 (Horncastle, Lincs, 1909) describes inter alia the accumulation of the Crowhurst estates from 1331, citing extracts from the British Library Harleian MSs, and describes the descent of the estate to 1909. It also includes photographs of Crowhurst Place.
P Eden and S Bendall eds., Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Map-Makers of Great Britain and Ireland, 1530-1850 (British Library, 1997)
HE Malden ed., Victoria History of the County of Surrey, Vol IV (London, 1912)
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Map entitled 'A Particular of the lands of John Gainsford of Crowhurs... Title Map entitled 'A Particular of the lands of John Gainsford of Crowhurst Place in com Surr. esq, lying in the several parishes of Crowhurst, Tandridge and Lingfield, surveyed by Edward Bostock Fuller..'. Recording field and house names and acreages, and parish borders (Tandridge in yellow, Lingfield green and Crowhurst red); also including illustrations of dwelling houses, trees, gates and Crowhurst parish church. Crowhurst Place, not illustrated in relief, is shown set in gardens, with orchards and hop garden. Includes a written particular of the whole estate, both demesne and tenanted land, with details of acreage, tenure and rent, comprising: Mr Gainsford's own lands in Crowhurst and Tandridge; land leased to William Angel; the 'moat house or Infield' leased to Old Langrage; the 'manor house of Blackgrove', leased to Thomas Chipping; land leased to John Langrage; Addin Ren leased to John Dod; land leased to George Steere, Tanners Farm otherwise Gateland Farm leased to John Gateland; a mill at Crowhurst leased to George Holmden; and land leased to George Cole. The whole estate amounts to 945a 5p. The map is oriented to the east, and decorated with compass star, scalloped cartouche, trompe l'oeil compasses (set behind part of the plan) and scale with coloured scrolls; also showing the Gainsford arms and crest [three greyhounds courant sable and 'demi woman vested and crined Or, holding in the dexter hand a chaplet vert with cinquefoils gules': Dunn Gainsford, op. cit. p14]. Coloured ink on two attached sheets of parchment, 106cm x 92cm. Scale: 6" to 100 perches. The particular itself does not include a reference key, but most of the parcels have been overmarked with alpha numeric references A-H and K (some sequences incomplete). These are probably of a later date (the ink being much darker), and do not exactly correspond to the tenancies recorded in the particular Reference 6960/1 Unit Date Apr 1679 Start Date 16790400 End Date 16790400
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