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Farnham history
Prehistory
Farnham’s history has been claimed to extend back tens of thousands of years to hunters of the Paleolithic or early Stone Age . The first known settlement in the area was in the Mesolithic period, some 7,000 years ago . There was a Neolithic long barrow at nearby Badshot Lea, now destroyed by quarrying .
Roman Britain
During the Roman period the district became a pottery centre due to the plentiful supply of gault clay, oak woodlands for fuel, and good communications via the Harrow Way and the nearby Roman road from Silchester to Chichester . The main centre of pottery had been Alice Holt Forest, on the edge of the town, since AD 50, just 7 years after the arrival of the Romans . The Alice Holt potteries continued in use, making mainly domestic wares, until about AD 400 .
The Anglo-Saxon period
Surrey passed into the hands of King Caedwalla of Wessex in the 7th century . He also conquered Kent and Sussex, and founded a monastery at Farnham in 686 .
After the Norman invasion
Farnham appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Ferneham, one of the five great “minster” churches in Surrey . Its assets were: 40 hides; 1 church, 6 mills, 43 ploughs, 35 acres (140,000 m) of meadow, woodland worth 175½ hogs .
The Civil War
The castle was considered a potential rallying point for the Royalists in 1642 . The garrison commander at Farnham decided to evacuate the castle . The new High Sheriff of Surrey occupied the vacant castle with 100 armed supporters . Parliament despatched Colonel Sir William Waller to take the castle and retake it .
Post-restoration
The author Daniel Defoe wrote that Farnham had the greatest corn-market after London . During the 17th century, other new industries evolved: greenware pottery, wool and cloth, the processing of wheat into flour, and eventually hops, a key ingredient of beer .
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