Location: Chollington (in Eastbourne) / Sussex

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Transaction S774      King Edgar 11 to Thorney, St Peter's 1 (i.e. Westminster 1 Abbey); confirmation, reciting a bull of Pope John 2, of liberties and of land at Ham (in East Ham), Wennington, Essex; Morden, Surrey; Fanton (Hall) in North Benfleet, Essex; Aldenham, Herts.; Bleccenham and Lothereslege (both lost, in Hendon), Middx; Holwell, Datchworth and Watton-at-Stone, Herts.; Chollington in Eastbourne, Sussex; Staines, with Teddington, Halliford, Feltham and Ashford, Middx.
Transaction S1043      King Edward 15 to Westminster 1 Abbey, First Charter; confirmation of lands, comprising 17.5 hides at Westminster, 20 at Hendon, 5 at Hampstead, 12 hides and 1 uirga at Greenford, 8 hides at Hanwell, 8 at Shepperton, 7 at Sunbury, Middx.; 10 at Aldenham, 4 hides and 1 uirga at Datchworth, 4.5 hides at Watton(-at-Stone), 6.5 at Holwell, Herts.; 2 at Ham, 4 at Wennington, 5 at Kelvedon (?), 4 at Fanton in North Benfleet, Essex; 10 at Morden, Surrey; 2 at Ewell, Kent; 7 at Parham, 3 at Chollington in Eastbourne, 4 at (West) Chiltington, Sussex. (b) Moulsham [granted by Leofcild 2], Kelvedon Hatch (?) [granted by Æthelric 66], Maplestead [granted by Wulfwine 11], Kelvedon, Rayne and Latchingdon [granted by Guthmund 5), Wanstead [granted by Ælfric 131], Leyton [granted by Atsere 3 Swearte], Paglesham [granted by Ingulf 1], Essex; Lessness, Kent [granted by Atsere 4]; Claygate, Surrey [granted by Tosti 3]; Ayot St Lawrence, Herts. [granted by Ælfwine 63]; Denham [granted by Wulfstan 58], a half hide at Amersham and 1 hide at Weedon, Bucks. [granted by Siweard 17]; 2.5 hides at Wormley, Herts. [granted by Leofsige 38 of London].
Transaction Bates290      In exchange for the estate of Windsor, which King Edward 15 had granted to St Peter’s, Westminster, King William 1 granted to Edwin 38, abbot of Westminster, and St Peter’s, Westinster: Ockendon and Feering, Essex, 14 sokemen, a free man in Thurstable Hundred who held a virgate of land, and 3 houses in Colchester. In order to redeem King Edward 15’s crown and other items of regalia, King William 1 granted Battersea, Wandsworth, and Pyrford, Surrey. They had been held by Earl Harold 3. He granted the tithe of Wick-by-Pershore, Worcs., and restored that part of Wick, which King Edward 15 gave and which had been unjustly taken from the abbey. He also granted: the mother-church of Benfleet, Essex; the mother-church of Bloxham, Oxfordshire; the two mother-churches of Oakham and Hambleton, Rutland, with the church of St Peter in Stamford; the mother-churches of Uppingham and Wardley, Rutland, and the houses of Wulfwine 16 the priest and the sokeland he holds; he ordered the return of the manor of Chollington, Sussex, which Boscelin de Dives had taken by force, and the land and house of Osbern 14 the chamberlain in London. William 1 is also said to have confirmed many lands.
Event Bates307      King William notifies Archbishop Lanfranc 1, Bishop Odo 3 of Bayeux and all his faithful men of England that he wishes that the abbey of Westminster should have it hunting-rights in the wood which belongs to Battersea, the tithe of two hundred horses near to the church, land at Chollington in Eastbourne, Sussex, which is held by Boscelin 1 de Dives, the house held by the same Boscelin, the house which Osbern 14 the chamberlain held in London, Wick-by-Pershore as it was given by King Edward 15 and as the abbey was seised, and the tithes which belong to King William 1 in Droitwich.