Little Bookham

[1] According to a charter C.675, the original of which is lost but which exists in a later form, there was granted to the Abbey twenty dwellings at Bocham cum Effingham.

Its Domesday Assets were: 2 hides; 2 ploughs, 4 acres (16,000 m2) of meadow, herbage and pannage worth 11 hogs.

The charters of Frithwald, Offa, Edgar and Edward the Confessor are all believed to be substantially fabricated, but probably embodied authentic material or recorded an earlier genuine transaction.

[4] The King and Queen of Yugoslavia were evacuated to the Old Rectory in Little Bookham during the Second World War, now partly redeveloped into six houses.

[6] Royal Mail do not recognise prefixes 'Great' or 'Little' in its published data cross referencing the optional locality line(s) with numerical subdistricts (inward codes) of postcodes, meaning that residents' addresses are incomplete when the information is computer-generated or looked up using postcodes alone.

Royal Mail are willing to update their records to add the specific localities to its data if Mole Valley D.C. and MP, Paul Beresford, need to give permission for this.

The Council have asked residents to sign a petition to show that they support this update, before they decide whether to give their permission.

View south on Little Bookham Street
Old Rectory in 2001 when derelict
All Saints' Church
Queen's Diamond Jubilee village sign