A Brief Chertsey History of the last Millennium.
1110 Chertsey Abbey rebuilt.
1250 The famous Chertsey tiles produced by a Master of the Craft.
1310 St Peters Church built.
1400’s Blanche Heriot hangs on the Abbey Bell.
1471 Henry V1 buried at Chertsey Abbey attracting large numbers of pilgrims.
1484 Henry V1s body moved to Windsor for reburial.
1537/8 Chertsey Abbey dissolved by Henry V111.
1599 Elizabeth I gives Market Charter to Chertsey.
1665-7 Royalist Poet and author Abraham Cowley lives in Porch House Guildford Street.
1724 Sir William Perkins opens school in Curfew House, Windsor St: Chertsey Cricket club established.
1725 Botley's Mansion built.
1785 The old mediaeval wooden Chertsey Bridge demolished and rebuilt in stone by James Paine.
The Rt. Hon Charles James Fox and his wife live on St Ann's Hill.
1820's Chertsey town fully developed.
1851 The Market Hall is pulled down, and the Old Town Hall built (now Bar163).
1860's The Railway comes to Chertsey:
Mannering Shurlock excavates Chertsey Abbey Site and publishes a large book on Chertsey Tiles.
Thomas Love Peacock, poet, lives in Windsor St.
Chertsey Town Football Club established.
Charles Dickens visits the town with his friend from Addlestone, Anna Maria Hall, to make notes for his forth coming book, Oliver Twist.
St. Peters Church is virtually rebuilt.
1870's Albert Smith writes the poem ‘ The Curfew must not ring tonight’.
1890's Albert Blaker, a local cobbler is Town Crier.
Chertsey Agricultural Society formed.
Chertsey Regatta Established.
1894 The Great Flood, most of Chertsey except the town centre under water.
1914 -18 Many Chertsey men lost in The Great War.
Zeppelin sighted at midnight, flying over the Railway Station.
Lucy Wheeler writes her little book on the History of Chertsey Abbey.
Sunday October 30th 1921 Chertsey War Memorial unveiled to the largest crowd ever seen in the centre of Chertsey.
Chertsey people refuse a railway line and a dual carriageway across the Meads.
Mrs Blaker (Albert’s Widow) assumes the post of Town Crier.
1928 Mr Neville Chamberlain comes to open the The Dingle on St. Ann's Hill.
1940 - 45 The ‘Little Boats’ go down The Thames to the Dunkirk Evacuation.
Chertsey bombed at the beginning of the war, then later on by four V1s plus a V2 rocket on Chertsey Meads.
1947 The worst winter on record. Another huge flood after the thaw of deep snow.
1950's Gravel raising starts in the area.
Bing Crosby takes tea in the Curfew Tea Rooms in Bridge Road.
1960's Miniature Railway established at Cuckrow Hill.
1963 The River Thames freezes over at Chertsey Bridge.
1970's. Full scale gravel raising.
M3 built over Abbey Meads.
Thorpe Park established:
1970 Chertsey Museum established at The Cedars, Windsor Street.
1972 Chertsey Urban District Council Dissolved, to be replaced by Runnymede District Council. (Later R.B.C.)
1975 ‘Wheelers Green’ the Tudor half hall house in Bitthams Lane saved.
1980's M25 built, and becomes orbital in 1985:
1981 Chertsey Hall built:
1990's Cllr Ray Lowther given Freedom of the Borough:
1995 Botley's Mansion catches fire:
2000 Chertsey revitalisation scheme gathers pace with an inclusion of a portrait statue to Charles James Fox.
Victor Spink