History
Stoke D’Abernon lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative district of Elmbridge hundred. Stoke d'Abernon appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Stoche. It was held by Richard Fitz Gilbert. Its Domesday assets were: 2 hides; 2 virgates 5 acres (20,000 m2); 1 church, 2 mills worth 13s, 4 ploughs, 6 oxen, 4 acres (16,000 m2) of meadow, woodland worth 40 hogs. It rendered £5. The suffix d'Abernon comes from a family who came over at the time of the Norman conquest in 1066. Its church, St Mary's, is Saxon with Norman and Victorian additions, and is famous for its monumental brasses, among them the oldest in the country.
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