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Great Bookham is a village in Surrey, England, one of six semi-rural spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford. ''The Bookhams'' – Great and Little Bookham – are part of the Saxon settlement of ''Bocham'', "the village by the beeches", the latter being a very narrow strip parish. They are surrounded by common land. Little Bookham in the west has the Bookham railway station. The villages are astride the A246, which is the non-motorway and direct route between the two towns. Once two distinct villages, the Bookhams have long been interconnected with residential roads that give the impression of one large village. The village is well known as the location of Polesden Lacey, a country house on the southern edge of the village, surrounded by more than of grounds, now owned by the National Trust and open to the public. ==History== According to a charter c.675, the original of which is lost but which exists in a later form, there were granted to the Abbey ''twenty dwellings at Bocham cum Effingham''. This was confirmed by four Saxon kings; King Offa of Mercia and of the nations roundabout'' in 787; King Athelstan who was ''King and ruler of the whole island of Britain'' in 933 confirmed the privileges to the monastery; King Edgar, ''Emperor of all Britain'' in 967 confirmed "twelve mansiones" in Bocham, and King Edward the Confessor, ''King of the English'' in 1062 confirmed twenty mansae at Bocham cum Effingham, Driteham and Pechingeorde. Great Bookham lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative district of Effingham half hundred. The Domesday Book 1086, which was a survey for taxation purposes, makes the first known distinction between the parishes of Great and Little Bookham, if it is assumed that there was no separate parish at the time of the charter of Edward the Confessor in 1062. Driteham and Pechingeorde are both referred to in the Domesday Book and appear to have been absorbed into the manors of Effingham and Effingham East Court. Great Bookham appears in Domesday Book as ''Bocheham''.〔(St Nicolas church history )〕 It was held by St Peter's Abbey, Chertsey. Its Domesday Assets were: 13 hides; 1 church, 1 mill worth 10s, 20 ploughs, of meadow, woodland and herbage worth 110 hogs. It rendered (in total): £15. It seems probable, as the number of cottages in Bocham cum Effingham remained constant, that the later charters must have been copies of earlier charters which were not revised to accord with the actual number of cottages at any one time. Jane Austen is said to have spent time in Bookham whilst writing several of her novels in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Its location is consistent with the geographical details in ''Emma''.〔(Surrey writers )〕 C. S. Lewis studied privately with W. T. Kirkpatrick in Great Bookham between September 1914 and April 1917. Pink Floyd bass player and singer, Roger Waters, was born in Great Bookham in 1943. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Bookham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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