Editing East Horsley (section)

===Enclosure and development===
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| short_title           = East Horsley Inclosure Act 1800
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| long_title            = An Act for separating the Commons or Waste Grounds of the Manor of East Horseley, in the County of Surrey, which lie in the several Parishes of East Horseley and Ockham, within the said Manor, and for fettling the Rights of Common thereon.
| year                  = 1800
| citation              = [[39 & 40 Geo. 3]]. c. ''11'' {{small|Pr.}}
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| royal_assent          = 4 April 1800
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The '''{{visible anchor|East Horsley Inclosure Act 1800}}''' ([[39 & 40 Geo. 3]]. c. ''11'' {{small|Pr.}}) enabled [[William Currie (British politician)|William Currie]] <small>MP</small> to inclose most of Horsley Common at the northern end of the parish and the [[common land|common fields and waste]] at the southern part, very much on the chalk. The [[glebe|parsonage and glebe]] were at the same time moved within the parish.<ref name=m/>

The village is the site of [[Horsley Towers]], a [[Gothic Revival architecture|gothic]] mansion designed by [[Charles Barry|Sir Charles Barry]] (later the architect of the [[Palace of Westminster|Houses of Parliament]]) for William Currie in place of an earlier building.  Currie, a distiller and banker, had bought the property in 1784 and over the next 44 years made extensive changes to the village, including rebuilding most of its houses, establishing the school and restoring the church.<ref name=m>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42982 |title=Parishes: East Horsley |editor=H.E. Malden |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1911 |work=A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 |access-date=22 November 2013 }}</ref>

[[Image:Ada Lovelace 1838.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Ada Lovelace|Ada, Lady Lovelace]] (writer, mathematician, and what we might call today a "computer programmer") lived at [[Horsley Towers]]<ref>{{cite news |date= 29 February 2016 |title= Victorian visionary Ada Lovelace: a pioneer of the computer age from Surrey |work= Great British Life |url= https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/22585675.victorian-visionary-ada-lovelace-pioneer-computer-age-surrey/ |access-date= 3 September 2023 }}</ref>]]
[[File:St Martin, East Horsley - Churchyard - geograph.org.uk - 4190052.jpg|upright|thumb|The 1st Earl of Lovelace's Mausoleum in the churchyard of Martin's Church, East Horsley]]
After Currie's death in 1829, the property was acquired by the [[William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace|1st Earl of Lovelace]]  (1805–1893). It was the marital home of [[Ada Lovelace|Ada, Lady Lovelace]] (the writer, mathematician and what today we would call a "computer programmer"). The 1st Earl of Lovelace had fifteen bridges, known as the [[Lovelace Bridges]], constructed on his estate to facilitate the transport of timber by horse-drawn carts. The bridges were built where the tracks crossed existing bridleways or roads. Ten bridges still exist.

In the early 1900s, the 3rd [[Earl of Lovelace]] applied [[restrictive covenant]]s on most of his former fields when selling these to private developers, leading to the overwhelming proportion of homes being detached. No minimum plot size is specified, and planning is controlled by [[Guildford (borough)|Guildford Borough Council]], subject to advice from the local Horsley council.

[[Horsley Towers]] was also the home of [[Thomas Sopwith|Sir Thomas Sopwith]], the aviation pioneer.