History
Burpham appears in Domesday Book as Borham. It was held partly by Turald (Thorold) from Roger de Montgomery and by Godfric from Thurold. Its domesday assets were: 3 hides; one mill worth 15s, 6½ ploughs, 25 acres (10 ha) of meadow, woodland worth 83 hogs. It rendered £8.
It was, until the consecration of its church, known as the manor of Burpham or Burgham in Worplesdon Its owner in the 13th century was Thurstan le Despenser and it then passed through the de Wintershull (by release), Bassett, Unwyn, Wolley, Mainwaring, and finally Wyrley families by relatives. By marriage its owner became Robert Wroth the MP for Guildford in 1704, 1707 and 1714 who died in 1720.
From 1720 the owner of the Manor was Baron Onslow, whose title was elevated to an Earldom from a Barony in the early nineteenth century and who were frequent MPs for Guildford.
The Church of St Luke, Lilac Cottage co-listed with New Inn Farmhouse a 17th century building on London Road with extensions and Pimms Row are the listed buildings in the area excluding Abbotswood below. The church is an ornate nineteenth century work built in 1859 designed by Henry Woodyer fronting the northwest of Sutherland Memorial Park and by a primary school.
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