CORNER FIELD

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1846 Tithe Map plot number:

 332

1896 1:2500 OS Map plot number:

185

aka GONWINS GROVE

See also, Ellis's Mead

Corner Field was a field of about three acres, situated at the corner of Miles Green and Polled Oak Slade. In the Tithe Award it was measured at 2 acres 3 roods and 5 perches.

Corner Field or Gonwin's Grove was one of four fields, purchased by John Kidder from John Smith some time before 1733. John Kidder sold Corner Field to Solomon Dayrolles in 1750.

Solomon Dayrolles died in 1786, having agreed to sell Corner Field to Henry Halsey. His son, Thomas Philip Dayrolle, was admitted as tenant and then immediately surrendered the land to the use of Henry Halsey.

Henry Halsey died in 1809. In his will he left his lands in Bisley, including Corner Field, in trust to the use of his son, Henry William Richard Westgarth Halsey, for his life and then to the son or sons of his said son. In 1849, a quantity of timber was cut on the trust lands without licence from the lord of the manor and so the lands became forfeited to the lord. In 1850, the lands were granted back to H.W.R.W Halsey.

In 1881, Henry William Richard Westgarth Halsey surrendered the trust lands, including Corner Field, to Frederick Mellersh and Edward Joseph Halsey, who were admitted as tenants in 1886.

In 1889, land in Chobham, Pirbright and Bisley was sold, by various parties in a complicated deal, to The Right Honorable Francis Charteris Earl of Wemyss and March. The Earl of Wemyss and March thus became the owner of Corner Field which by this time had become a single close together with the adjacent Miles Green Five Acres.

In August 1894, Corner Field, with other plots, became enfranchised to The Earl of Wemyss and March and was thereafter held freely of the manor.