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Walton-on-the-Hill was called Waltone in Domesday Book of 1086. It was held by John from Richard Fitz Gilbert. Its Domesday assets were: 2 hides and 1 virgate. It had 5½ ploughs, 1 house in Southwark. It rendered £6. here is an early post-conquest motte within the grounds of Walton Place, the remains of a timber castle.
The name Walton comes from settlement/farmstead of Wealas – Anglo-Saxon (Old English) for "Celtic-speaking tribes" or by derivation, "strangers/foreigners", see later form Welsh people and related old-fashioned phrases.
The Church of St Peter has a beautiful Norman lead font. Around the bowl is an arcade of round-headed arches, beneath each is a seated figure.
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