History of Banstead in Surrey (Classic Reprint)

History of Banstead in Surrey (Classic Reprint) Synopsis

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The following pages are an attempt to sketch the history of a Surrey parish which, though it goes back to Saxon times, is not in any way remarkable. The method adopted has been to give a brief historical introduction, followed by a series of documents in chronological order from Domesday Book to our own time, elucidated by notes.

There are many ways of writing history, and the method adopted here is open to the charge that it does not cover all the ground. No attempt, for instance, has been made to deal systematically with genealogy or architecture, though the documents contain matter of interest on both subjects. Contemporary documents, in fact, often suggest more questions than they answer. But they at least possess for the historian a value which, if they are faithfully pre sented, is permanent, and the facts which they contain, however fragmentary, must help to throw light on many problems with which the editor is not himself capable of dealing.

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