Editing Wisley (section)

==History==
===''Domesday Book''===
Wisley appears in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' of 1086 as ''Wiselei''. It was held by Osuuold (Oswold) [of Wotton], whose main seat was [[Wotton, Surrey|Wotton]].<ref name=m>{{Cite book |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp378-381 |title=A History of the County of Surrey |year=1911 |editor-last=Malden |editor-first=H E |volume=3 |pages=378–381 |chapter=Parishes: Wisley |access-date=4 November 2022 |via=British History Online}}</ref> Its domesday assets were: 1{{frac|1|2}} [[hide (unit)|hide]]s; one church, one [[Mill (grinding)|mill]] worth 10 [[£sd|shillings]], three [[plough]]s, one [[fishery]] worth 5[[£sd|d]], {{convert|6|acre|ha}} of [[meadow]], [[woodland]] worth six [[hog (swine)|hog]]s. It rendered £3 in the [[feudal system]] to its overlords per year.<ref>[http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm Surrey Domesday Book] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030192829/http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |date=30 October 2007 }}</ref>

There is a maintained medieval track running from [[Byfleet]] through Wisley to St Nicholas' Church, [[Pyrford]].<ref>[http://www.leyhunt.fsnet.co.uk/lhunt84.htm Church tracks]</ref>

===Manorial descent===
Oswold, lord of [[Wotton, Surrey|Wotton]] held the manor of Wisley when [[Domesday Book]] was compiled. The manor was [[subinfeudated]] by the later lords of Wotton. In the early 1200s, the manor passed from Roger de Somerey to [[Robert de Briwes]], who leased it in 1243 to Walter le Basle and his wife Denise during Walter's life. On Robert's death in 1275, it passed to his son John, who settled it on his daughter Beatrice shortly before she married Robert Burnel. Around the end of the 1200s, Robert Fitz Payne came into possession of some of John's lands in Somerset, and apparently acquired title to Wisley as well, prevailing in a lawsuit initiated by Robert Burnel in 1328.

Fitz Payne died without male heirs; at the death of his wife Ela, in 1355, it passed to her cousin Robert, the second son of [[Richard Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Codnor|Richard de Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Codnor]]. Robert assumed the Fitz Payne surname and died in 1392, when the manor passed to his daughter Isabel, wife of [[Richard Poynings, 3rd Baron Poynings]]. She died the following year, and it passed to her son and heir [[Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings]]. In 1434, he settled the manor on his granddaughter [[Eleanor Percy, 5th Baroness Poynings|Eleanor]] on the occasion of her marriage to [[Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland]]. Eleanor died in 1483, and her successor, her son [[Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland]], was killed in 1489. Towards the end of his life, a dispute arose among Northumberland and the other heirs of Sir Guy de Bryan (Robert Fitz Payne's father-in-law). One of these was [[Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond]], who apparently received Wisley in the settlement between heirs, as he granted it to John Covert, who died in 1503.

Upon John's death without heirs male of the body, Wisley passed to his cousin Richard Covert, who in 1594 joined with his son Anthony in conveying the manor to the courtier [[John Wolley (MP)|Sir John Wolley]] and [[Elizabeth Wolley|Elizabeth]] his wife, daughter of [[William More (died 1600)|Sir William More]]. Wolley's son Francis inherited the manor in 1596, but died without legitimate issue in 1609. Wisley passed to Elizabeth's nephew [[Arthur Mainwaring|Sir Arthur Mainwaring]]. Perhaps to pay for a lawsuit over guardianship of his niece, Mainwaring sold the manor to [[Robert Parkhurst (died 1651)|Sir Robert Parkhurst]] in 1641. Sir Robert died in 1651, and Wisley passed to his son [[Robert Parkhurst (died 1674)|Robert]], who died in 1674. In 1677, his son, yet another Robert, sold Wisley and other Surrey estates bought from Mainwaring, including [[Pyrford]], to [[Denzil Onslow of Pyrford|Denzil Onslow]].

Onslow died in 1721; upon the death of his widow Jane, in 1729, Wisley passed to his great-nephew [[Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow]]. The manor descended with the peerage to [[George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow]], who exchanged it with [[Peter King, 6th Baron King]] for Papworth in [[Send, Surrey|Send]]. It thereafter descended with that peerage (later the [[Earl of Lovelace|Earls of Lovelace]]).<ref name=m/>

===19th and 20th centuries===
Slade Farm and a cottage were transferred from Wisley to Ockham 25 March 1883. The children of Wisley Common began to attend [[Byfleet, Surrey|Byfleet]] School.<ref name=m/> [[Charles Buxton]], brewer and MP, had [[Foxwarren Park]], his solitary, stark [[Neo-Gothic]] mansion home placed upon the far woodlands of the [[heath]], in land well within the orbital motorway of today and associated with [[Weybridge]].<ref name=m/>

In 1911 it was recorded in the [[Victoria County History]] "there is no village of Wisley; merely some [[dispersed settlement|scattered farms and cottages]]".<ref name=m/>

The former [[Wisley Airfield]], a misnomer as it is within the bounds of [[Ockham, Surrey|Ockham]], next to the junction of the M25/A3,<ref>[https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&t=k&ll=51.30717,-0.46207&spn=0.012046,0.02635&t=k Google Maps - Location of Wisley Airfield]</ref> had a {{convert|6,691|ft|mile|adj=on}} runway. Built towards the end of [[World War II]] as a flight test airfield for the [[Vickers]] aircraft factory at nearby [[Brooklands]], it opened in 1944 and after extended use for the development of military aircraft during the [[Cold War]], it finally closed in 1972.

Although the runway, taxiways and large areas of hardstanding survive, most of the buildings—including the unique control tower converted from an old timber-framed cottage—were demolished around 1980. The Ockham Beacon at the east end serves as a navigation aid for aircraft flying over the area.

===Wisley Church===
Wisley parish church was built by the [[Normans]] in the mid 12th century and the church has no later additions. Even the dedication of the church is lost.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lewin |first=Sylvia |title=Wisley Church: Short History and Church Guide |last2=Blatch |first2=Mervyn |others=Revised by David Hill with substantial input from Tony Paice |year=2006 |edition=2nd |location=Wisley Church |orig-date=1987}}</ref><ref name=m/>

Three [[consecration cross]]es still remain. There are remains of medieval frescos on the south wall of the nave and behind the pulpit. The [[chancel]] arch, of chalkstone, and both the north and south chancel windows are original. The roof with a [[queen post]], and [[Bell-cot|bellcote]], with one bell, are later. A porch was added in the [[Stuart period|Stuart]] period. The [[Victorian restoration|Victorian]] restoration of 1872 reconstructed the western half in a neo-Norman style, including the two west windows, and added the vestry. Originally there was a Norman font, but that was replaced by the present Victorian one; the pulpit is also Victorian.

On the south wall is the Royal Arms of [[George III]]. The East window and north and south windows of the nave are late [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] style from 1627. The stained-glass is by [[James Powell and Sons|Powell and Sons]], given in 1909 in memory of Mr and Mrs Buxton; [[Charles Buxton]] was a local M.P. Beside the pulpit is a scrolled iron [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] hour-glass holder. One pew is dated 1630, but the remainder are Victorian, and the panel behind the organ is from 1915.

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