Alfold

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Alfold
population = 1,046
shire_district= Waverley
shire_county = Surrey
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Guildford
post_town= CRANLEIGH
postcode_district = GU6
postcode_area= GU
dial_code= 01403
os_grid_reference= TQ037339
latitude= 51.0954
longitude= -0.5197

Alfold is small village and civil parish on the Surrey/West Sussex border in England. The parish clerk is Mrs L.R. Enticknap. [ [http://www.waverley.gov.uk/council/clerks.asp List of clerks] ]

Originally sited perhaps for the glass making (evidence of which can be seen in Sidney Wood). Charcoal was extensively burnt in the parish for gunpowder works in Dunsfold, Cranleigh, and Sussex.

Alfold is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. This is probably because Alfold appears to have been an unrecorded, southern outpost in the multi-village estate of Bramley since pre-conquest times. The earliest mention of Alfold, in the 13th Century, records that it was attached to Shalford Manor. A charter of William de Longespee, son of the Earl of Salisbury, records that the advowson, with the Manor of Shalford, is given to John, son of Geoffrey Earl of Essex, who died in 1256.

'Alfold' meant the 'old fold' or clearing enclosure for cattle.

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