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Flowing Ditch

The ditch was a scheme of Sir Richard Weston in Sutton Park in 1618  It was an artificial channel from Stoke Mills at Guildford to Wareham’s Farm via the park and Jacobswell.  Water from the ditch was used to irrigate meadows. 

Sutton

The ‘south place’ – in relation to Woking which was the main part of the parish. In  1070 given to Robert Mallet who built a manor house close to Sutton Place. Became a Crown possession until 1200 when it went, with Woking, to Alan Bassett.  In 1521 it was given to Richard Weston by Henry VIII.

Brickworks. The estate had its own brick works in woodlands overlooking the Wey.

Sutton Place

Home of Paul Getty.  Built probably in 1523-5 by Sir Richard Weston (d. 1542), favourite of Henry VIII, it is the finest mansion of its period in Surrey built on rising ground enclosed by a bend of the Wey.  It is remarkable for its use of moulded brick, and shows marked Italian influence in its ornament, particularly in the early employment of prefabricated terracotta panels; it was also one of the first dwellings in England to be built without any regard to defence. Weston was a promoter of the Wey Navigation, and Sutton Place mortgaged to pay for it. It became the seat of the Duke of Sutherland.  The house originally formed a quadrangle, but the north wing with a gatehouse 70 ft high was pulled down in 1782.  Above the entrance in the south wing is a double row of terracotta 'amorini'.  The Entrance Hall, on the right, has an original fireplace and good 17th-century panelling.  The Great Hall is 51 ft long and nearly 31 ft high; the windows contain a remarkable series of painted shields and quarries, 92 in all, with royal and family arms and emblems of the 16-17th centuries.  There are lots of pictures, and tapestries, staircases, glass, etc etc etc.  The Long Gallery, 152 ft long built in 1878.  Among the many notable paintings are portraits on panel of Henry VIII (after Holbein) and Elizabeth I (after Zucchero), other portraits by Tintoretto, Reynolds, Hoppner, Lawrence, and Romney (including the charming Leveson-Gower children), and a Death of the Virgin by Durer.  There are numerous fine 16th-century Brussels tapestries. The grounds are noted for their rose gardens.

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