Editing Ashtead (section)

===Medieval===
Ashtead appears in the Domesday Book as ''Stede'' and was held by the Canons of [[Bayeux]] from the [[Bishop of Bayeux]]. Its assets were: three [[hide (unit)|hides]] and one [[virgate]]; 16 [[plough]]s, [[woodland]] for seven [[hog (swine)|hogs]] and {{convert|4|acre|ha|spell=in}} of [[meadow]]. In total, it rendered £12 per year.<ref name=Ashtead_Domesday/><ref name=Surrey_Domesday>{{cite web |url= http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |title= Surrey Domesday Book |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070715015325/http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |archive-date= 15 July 2007 }}</ref>

The de Warenne Family, the [[Earl of Surrey|Earls of Surrey]], held the manor in the 12th century. In the second half of the 13th century, it passed to the de Montfort family. During the [[Second Barons' War]] (1264–1267), Ashtead men are known to have fought on the side of [[Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester|Simon de Montfort]].<ref name=Stuttard_1995_pp23-27>{{harvnb|Stuttard|1995|pp=23–27}}</ref> The de Montforts and their descendants continued to own the manor until the death of Baldwin de Freville in 1419, when it passed to his brother-in-law, Sir Roger Aston. Ashtead passed through several generations of the Aston family until 1543, when [[Edward Aston (died 1568)|Edward Aston]] returned the manor to the [[crown estate|Crown]] in exchange for land in [[Stafford]] and [[Derby]].<ref name=Lowther_1954>{{cite journal |last1= Lowther |first1= A.W.G. |year= 1954 |title= Ashtead and its history VI: Tudor and Elizabethan Ashtead |url= https://leatherheadhistoryarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/VOL_1_NO_8_1954.pdf |journal= Proceedings of the Leatherhead & District Local History Society |volume= 1 |issue= 8 |pages= 19–20 |access-date= 23 May 2021 }}</ref>

During the late 14th century, tile manufacturing was again taking place on Ashtead Common. Records from the [[Banstead|Manor of Banstead]] indicate that a "Henry the Tyler of Asshstede" supplied over 10,000 roof tiles in 1372–3, and in 1384 the same individual also supplied the lord of the manor of Ashtead with tiles for "The Lord's Kitchen." It is possible that, during the 1290s, the tiles for the building of Pacchesham Manor, Leatherhead, were also manufactured on Ashtead Common. There is no mention of Henry the Tyler after 1400, and it seems likely that the medieval tileworks closed around this time.<ref name=Lowther_1952/><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Frere |first1= S.S. |year= 1941 |title= A Mediaeval Pottery at Ashtead |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_47/surreyac047_058-066_frere.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Collections |volume= 47 |pages= 58–66 |doi= 10.5284/1068837 |access-date= 23 May 2021 |archive-date= 23 May 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210523162356/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1%2Fdissemination%2Fpdf%2Fvol_47%2Fsurreyac047_058-066_frere.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref>

The area now bordered by Barnett Wood Lane, Agates Lane, Ottways Lane and Harriots Lane, was formerly a separate manor called Little Ashtead, which was held by [[Merton Priory]] in the Middle Ages. Following the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] in the mid-16th century, the area was known as Prior's Farm.<ref name=Lowther_1953>{{cite journal |last1= Lowther |first1= A.W.G. |year= 1953 |title= Ashtead and its history V: Manor of Little Ashtead |url= https://leatherheadhistoryarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/VOL_1_NO_7_1953.pdf |journal= Proceedings of the Leatherhead & District Local History Society |volume= 1 |issue= 7 |pages= 18–19 |access-date= 23 May 2021 }}</ref>