conjecture: that it was named from some cross that anciently stood where the road from Barrows Hedges through Wellington is intersected by that from Car- shaltonto Croydon." He further states : " There is some ground belonging to Wallington at present reckoned part of Carshalton, part in Bedington, which did a hundred years ago, if it does not at present, go by the name of Crosslands " ; and concludes by assuming that " we may admit that this was Cross Aulton, distinguishing it from Croydon Aultoii." 1
The lands called Crosslands above referred to were anciently part of the possessions of the priory of Merton, and appear to have been demised to Henry and Richard Burton by an indenture dated 10th November, A.D. 1537, 28 Henry VIII., for a term of fifty years, at the annual rent of 25s. 6d. The great trees, the wood, underwood, minerals, and quarries, as set forth, were not included in this demise, the same having been demised by letters patent to William Blake, his executors and assigns, for a term of forty years, at the annual rent of 25s. 6d. The Roman road or way, called the Stane Street, passes through the parish. The earliest reference to the church occurs in " Domesday," as will be seen by the following translation of that portion relating to Car- shalton : " Goisfrid de Manneville holds Aultone, Five Freemen held it of King Edward, and could go where they would. Of these one held 2 Hides, and each of the other four held 6 Hides. There were 5 Manors; now it is one Manor. Then it was rated for 27 Hides, now for 3 and a half. The arable land consists of 10 Carrucates, one of them is in demesne, and 9 Villans and 9 Cotars with 5 Carrucates. There is a Church, and 7 Yillans in gross, and 12 acres of Meadow. " The men of the County and the hundred say that they never saw the "Writ or the Attorney (liberator -em) , who, on the King's part, gave Goisfrid seizin of this Manor. In the time of King Edward it was worth 201., when it was seized 100s., now 10?. 11 Of these Hides Wesman holds six of Goisfrid, son of Earl Eustace j Goisfrid de Mannevil gave him this land with his daughter. There is 1 Salmon's Antiquities of Surrey, pp. 48, 49.
