Postcard

  • Picture / Image:  Cottages at Chaldon [Surrey] from an oil painting by Ernest Christie 
  • Publisher: none sttaed (perhaps the artist?)
  • Postally used: yes
  • Stamp:  George VI 2d orange
  • Postmark(s): Caterham 1947 wavy line
  • Sent to:  Gordon Road, Caterham, local
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Chaldon is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England. The village is situated high on the North Downs, immediately west of Caterham and 15.8 miles (25.4 km) south of Charing Cross, the traditional centre of London.

History

Etymology and Dark Ages

Chalvedune is the first written record of the place in 675 AD, meaning the hill (down) where calves were pastured, in a grant of land to Chertsey Abbey.[2] Prior to this period of human history, White Hill on the borders of Chaldon and Caterham has yielded neolithic flints.[3]

The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Wallington hundred.[4]

Middle Ages

In the Domesday Book of 1086 the manor of Calvedone appears in Wallington hundred rendering £4 to its lord Ralph Fitz Turold, holding it as was most of the hundred of Bishop Odo of Bayeux.[5] Prior to the Conquest it had been held by the Saxon lord Dernic of King Edward. It consisted of two hides, land for two lord's plough teams and a church.[6] In medieval times the parish included a narrow strip of land below the southern foot of the Downs and a wedge of land to the north of the church that in the 19th century were transferred to Bletchingley and Coulsdon respectively[2] – these are omitted from this article.

An inscribed stone dedicates a pond for use by residents not animals dated to the late 18th or early 19th century, which illustrates the lack of water in the village during summer months.[2] St Catherine's south chancel chapel in the church became devoted to the memory of Christian Hane (d.1752) of an aedicular type with a white stone rectangular panel flanked by Doric pilasters with red marble inlay, swan-neck pediment and crowning shell.[7]