Editing Great Bookham (section)

==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 [[Æthelstan]] who was "King and ruler of the whole island of Britain" in 933 confirmed the privileges to the [[monastery]]; King [[Edgar I of England|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-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] administrative district of [[Effingham (half hundred)|Effingham]] [[hundred (division)|half hundred]].

The [[Domesday Book]] of 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 the Domesday Book in the ancient [[Hundred_(county_division)|hundred]] of [[Effingham Hundred|Effingham]] as ''Bocheham''.<ref>[https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1354/great-bookham/ Open Domesday: (Great) Bookham]. Accessed 19 October 2023.</ref><ref>[http://www.stnicolasbookham.org.uk/history.htm St Nicolas church history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515042327/http://www.stnicolasbookham.org.uk/history.htm |date=15 May 2008 }}</ref> It was held by St Peter's Abbey, [[Chertsey]]. Its Domesday Assets were: 13 [[hide (unit)|hide]]s; 1 church, 1 [[gristmill|mill]] worth 10s, 20 [[ploughs]], {{convert|6|acre|ha}} of [[meadow]], [[woodland]] and herbage worth 110 [[hog (swine)|hog]]s. It rendered (in total): £15.

It seems probable, as the number of cottages in Bookham and 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.

In 1951 the [[civil parish]] had a population of 7885.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10186031/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Great Bookham AP/CP through time|publisher=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]]|accessdate=27 April 2024}}</ref> On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/surrey%20mid%20eastern.html|title=Surrey Mid-Eastern Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=27 April 2024}}</ref>