Travel to Chaldon Map
Chaldon tourist guide map of landmarks & destinations by Walkfo
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Chaldon 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 . White Hill on the borders of Chaldon and Caterham has yielded neolithic flints .
Middle Ages
In the Domesday Book Calvedone appears in Wallington hundred rendering £4 to its lord Ralph Fitz Turold . 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 .
Post industrial revolution
A tower and spire were added to the church in 1843 from a bellcote before . Given its steep, dry landscape, Chaldon did not develop new homes substantially in the 19th and 20th centuries .
Chaldon map & travel guide with history & landmarks to explore
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