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The John Remnant Map of 1719
Fishers Farm can be located as item 197 in the old tything of Hale End on the map see left and its accompanying commentary. The farm is represented by a miniature house. The River Wey can just be made out to the right of the map and it can be seen that the house is on the boundary of the Manor adjacent to Emilies Manour. The copyholder is John Rawlins who is listed as the copyholder of items 186 to 200 ie not including items 201-3 which extend to the present day Runtley Farm House, probably not built then. John Rawlins was probably he who is buried in St Peter’s churchyard. Remnant describes the house as a cottage a term which he applies to numerous other substantial houses, for example, the Old Brew House in the village.
Tices Farm
There is no mention of the Fishers Farm in the 1851, 1881 and 1891 Censuses. It is likely that the house was then known as Tices Farm after Benjamin Tice who acquired the copyhold from William Smyth of Goldalming in 1820 subsequently selling the farm to James Garment in 1825. It is worth noting, considering the Rawlins family’s association with the farm, that a John Tice married Elizabeth Rawlins in 1705 and Catherine Tice probably the daughter of John Rawlins and her husband William are buried in John Rawlins’s listed tomb in St Peter's churchyard. Arthur Locke says in his A Short History of Woking Mr Woodhatch was the tenant in the 1830s.
The Tithe Map of 1841
The Apportionment shows John Garment as the Owner with William Woodhatch as the Occupier. They are also the Owner and Occupier of neighbouring Moor Lane Farm and the fields between the two farmhouses The Court Rolls in 1853 note the death of John Garment the then copyholder of Runtley otherwise Fishers.
The Census returns 1841-1901
During the 19th century it appears there were often more farm houses than were necessary to farm the land in the area. As a result, separate farm holdings were operated as one and the redundant farm house used to house labourers and others working on the farms. Tices Farm (Fishers) is such an example being worked together with Moor Lane Farm.
© Phillip Arnold 2006
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