Smallfield History
Smallfield Surrey owes
its origins to the wars between England
and France many hundreds of years ago,
for it was during the reign of Edward
III that the estate of Smallfield Place was
given to John de Burstow by Lord Burghersh
as a reward for the assistance he had
given when his lordship was thrown
from his horse while in battle.
The Bysshe family later became owners and Edward Bysshe enlarged
the house. He was a bencher of Lincoln's Inn during the time of
James I and his father had been member of parliament for Bletchingley
in the 1620s and again in 1640. Bysshe himself
was also a member in the last Parliament of Oliver Cromwell in
1654 and in and five years later Richard Cromwell's parliament.
 The first Astronomer Royal, John
Flamsteed accurately calculated the solar
eclipses of 1666 and 1668.
He was responsible for one of the earliest
recorded sightings of the planet Uranus,
which he mistook for a star and
catalogued as 34 Tauri.,
was buried in the Church of St. Bartholomew
at Burstow in Surrey where he had been
Rector, though largely an absentee Rector,
since 1684. Plaques in this old church commemorate his work
as Astronomer Royal and as Rector of
the Parish of Burstow for more than 35 years.
Jacobean History
Another one of the fantastic properties in our
Village Smallfield Place once
the seat of Sir Edward Bysshe (c. 1615-1679),
garter king-at-arms.
The house can be seen from the road and it is a
formidable Jacobean property with mullioned
bay windows and on the porch it is
embossed with the Bysshe arms.
Hauntings
The building is a magnet for female
ghosts. A woman appears from a wall
in the dining room, while another dressed
in blue drifts about in the drawing
room. The third female form has been
seen outside the house; dressed in
wedding lace, she vanishes near the
pond.
Nearby is yet another old home of the Bysshes and
Shelly the poet was descended from one of the Bysshe family.
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