1846 Tithe Map plot number: |
1-3 |
1896 1:2500 OS Map plot number: |
8, 14 & 15 |
Brizes was the name of a house and tenement, just across the boundary with Chobham parish, in Lucas Green. It also referred to three (originally four) closes of land totalling about 4 acres, situated in the north of the parish near Westbourne Mead. In the Tithe Award they were measured as 2 acres 2 roods and 29 perches, 3 roods and 25 perches and 2 roods and 33 perches respectively; on the OS map the whole was described as 4.507 acres.
In the early-to-mid-eighteenth century, Brizes (the three closes of land) was owned copyhold by William Fry of Bagshot. When William died in 1747, Brizes passed to his wife, Mary. In 1754, when Mary died, she left the premises, in her will, to Thomas Washburn and Mary Higgs, as tenants in common (i.e. they each had a half share).
In 1755, Thomas Washburn died and his half devolved to his son, also Thomas. Thomas junior also died, before he was formerly admitted and, in 1765, his half share in Brizes passed to his sister, Ann, then aged 14 and living in Southwark. In 1771, Ann, now married to Thomas Dunkley, passed her half-share to Mary Higgs (now of Reading, Berkshire) who now owned the whole.
In 1784, Mary Higgs passed (sold?) Brizes to John Dudman 'of Bisley'. In 1796, following the death of his wife, Elizabeth, John Dudman sold Brizes (together with various other plots of land) to James Spong of Chobham.