FETCHAM, a parish in the second division of the
hundred of COPTHORNE, county of SURREY, Ij mile
(W.) from Leatherhead, containing 37? inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Surrey,
and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books
at £21. 10. 5. The Rev. J. G. Bolland was patron in
1818, The church is an ancient structure of flints,
pebbles, chalk, and Roman tile, and, though now small,
appears to have been formerly large and cruciform. The
bones of about twenty human bodies, a small pike, and
some knife blades, were found near this spot in 175S j
and on the top of the hill other bones have been discovered,
supposed to be the remains of those Saxons
who were killed in the pursuit of the Danes, after the
battle of Ockley, in 851, which seems to be countenanced
by the name of Standard hill having been given
to a neighbouring eminence.