WAVERLEY, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the hundred
of FARNHAM, county of SURREY, 2 miles (S. E.
by E.) from Farnham, containing 58 inhabitants. An
abbey of Cistercian monks, in honour of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, was founded here, in 1128, by William
Giffard, Bishop of Winchester, which, at the dissolution,
had a revenue of £196. 13. 11.: it is said to have been
the first of that order established in England. The
remains are still considerable, and, though insufficient
to give an idea of its original magnificence, have an
interesting effect, much enhanced by the luxuriant ivy
with which they are overgrown.