Chobham manor needed to be large to have a reasonable economic importance as it covered very poor quality heathland.Most of the population of the hundred would have settled on the more fertile alluvial soil bordering the River Thames.Godley was a hundred (these are not marked on the Surrey map, which shows only Domesday manors) an administrative area, where local leaders met about once a month.[1] It included the manors of Chobham, Egham, Thorpe, Chertsey, Pyrford and Byfleet.[3][4] In the Godley hundred, in Saxon times, the heriot, death duties, usually consisted of the tenants' best beast.
St Mary's Church, Thorpe which was built in the early 7th century within the Godley hundred
