Woodmansterne
Woodmansterne is a village in Reigate and Banstead borough of the county of Surrey, England. Woodmansterne village is located on the B278, which starts at Morden and winds through Carshalton past Oaks Park and into the village. The road continues down to Chipstead Bottom. The railway station on the London to Tattenham Corner Line called "Woodmansterne" is actually located on Chipstead Valley Road Coulsdon just inside the border of the London Borough of Croydon.
The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Wallington hundred.
Woodmansterne appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Odemerestor, derived from Old English "Ode" = (W)ode = Wood, "mere" = pond, and "tor" = high ground.[2] It was held by Richard de Tonebrige. Its Domesday assets were: 15 hides; 1 church, 1 mill worth 20s, 5 ploughs, 4 acres (16,000 m2) of meadow, wood worth 10 hogs. It rendered £8.[3]
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