House Clearance in Ash Green

There is no mention of a mill under Henley in the Domesday Book, but it is certain that a mill existed at Ash from comparatively early times, for in 1322, the Abbot of Chertsey ordered a new windmill to be built at Ash. Windmills were comparatively new in England then, and they may have been in place of a small water mill of an earlier date. There seems to be no later record of it.

The two manors existed. Ash (Esche, 7th century; Asshe, Assche, 14th century) shares with the other a prominent social history starting with at least the Norman period of the Domesday book whose commissioners wrote “Azor granted [part of Henley known as Ash for his soul to Chertsey in the time of King William. Later, a 1279 chartulary of Chertsey Abbey records the prohibition of any perpetual title of institutions (as the Abbey states, vulgarly called the prohibition of mortmain) as led her to 11 acres in Ash with sufficient common pasture for his flocks and herds being held by Robert de Zathe, while Geoffrey de Bacsete (Bagshot) and his brother William had 28 acres. The Atwaters of West Clandon also held land in Ash. Nonetheless, from the church’s freehold, overall control passed from 1537 in the Dissolution of the Monasteries to Winchester College. Henley, also seen as Henle (14th century) and Suth Henle and Henle on the usual to distinguish Henley on the Thames, has hosted many prominent figures.

The de Henley, de Molyns [n 3], the crown as owner from Edward I to Charles I, Arthur Squib whose daughter married its next owner John Glynne (judge), occupied briefly by the Duke of Roxburgh then via Glynne’s granddaughter’s husband, Sir Richard Child, created Earl of Tylney it then passed to ambassador and diplomat Solomon Dayrolles, upon whose death John Halsey bought it, whose family owned it from the 18th to 20th centuries.