Īccording to the Guinness World Records 2003, Tongham also holds the world record for holding the most indisciplined Football Match ever against Hawley Youth Club on 3 November 1969. Tongham has a Non-League football club Tongham F.C. Cyril Garbett, the son of its first vicar, and later Archbishop of York, was born in Tongham in 1875, a leader in the liturgy and charitable works of a large part of the Church of England. The 1865 Anglican church of St Paul, designed by Ewan Christian, is Grade II listed and was chiefly funded by John Back who owned Aldershot Park, a large public park with many leisure facilities accessible via a track from the village, crossing the double divide of a river valley (with the Blackwater Valley Path) and dual carriageway. The brewery operates an off-licence stocking non-proprietorial ales as well as its own. There is a small shopping parade in the village centre. There are two pre-19th-century pubs in Tongham: The White Hart on The Street, and The Cricketers on Oxenden Road. The military author and Honorary Remembrancer for the Borough of Aldershot (1963 to 1974), and Curator of the Aldershot Museum, Howard N. ![]() The parish church was completed in 1865 and Tongham, which had previously been part of the parish of Seale, was made into a separate parish the following year. Tongham's now dismantled railway was important for transporting materials to build the new military camp of Aldershot from 1856 until 1870 and the row of shops developed from this line. Poyle Farm is largely intact in terms of uninterrupted farmland.įrom the industrial revolution onwards įrom the population abstracts from 1811 until its evolution into a parish the settlement was a rural one large enough in size to be official classed as a statistically recordable hamlet. The Grade II listed 17th century Poyle Cottage sits below the former manor. Colonel Ross Donnelly Mangles, the Chairman of the East India Company was a tenant in the mid-19th century. ![]() In 1792 owner William Woodroffe (born Billinghurst) who was High Sheriff of Surrey for 1792 had his estate in bankruptcy (chancery) due to the expense of that office which he could not afford. After the Gaynesford and Vyne families, the family of Sir Nicholas Woodroffe, Lord Mayor of London for 1579, held it until at least 1906, by passing to female-line descendants, the Chester family. The Poyle family owned a synonymous manor in a parish of Guildford, held of the King. ![]() In the 14th century Tongham, seemingly inclusive of this area, was assessed in the subsidy roll at £3 8s 5.5d. The manor of Poyle Park which decayed from a wealthy gentleman's architecturally impressive farmhouse into no more than a farm, was in the north of Seale but now forms most of the east of Tongham. On his death it passed to his stepson, Charles Barron, and the manor remained, albeit with portions gradually being sold off, with a Barron until at least 1906. In 1819 an exact namesake, with Thomas and Jane Barrett also having an interest, sold the manor to Stephen Boyce. The family sold it in 1725 to a Richard Smith. The manor descended from the emblazoned, but not noble, Gaynesford and White families to holders in the Tichborne family. He had inherited the land from his grandfather, Walter de la Puille who held it rendering an annual small fee to the Bishop. The farmstead, and what few peasants' buildings there were, gain early mentions as Twangham from the 13th century to the 16th century in the rent rolls of successive Bishops of Winchester: Henry de la Poyle held court at Tongham manor in 1360. Notable finds in the parish include two Neolithic arrowheads and Iron Age farmsteads. Aldershot itself is centred 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the west.Īrchaeological evidence suggests the area of Tongham has been occupied since Neolithic times, particularly close to the Pilgrims' Way which formerly covered in part the top of the Hogs Back, a ridge 50–60 m (160–200 ft) above the surrounding area, but which is now the North Downs Way on the south side. ![]() Tongham was the home of the Aldershot Stadium from 1950 to 1992. The largest independent brewery in Surrey, the Hogs Back Brewery, takes its name from this eminence as does the Hog's Back Hotel. Tongham is located on the north side of the Hog's Back, the narrowest part of the North Downs. The boundaries take in Poyle Park in the east and the replacement to Runfold's manor house in the west. The village's buildings occupy most of the west of the civil parish, adjoining the A31 and the A331. Tongham is a village northeast of the town of Farnham in Surrey, England.
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