 They came from Kent and are first recorded here in 1384 as 'Burssabrugge' or 'Burrshebrugge'.James de Bushbridge sold Bushbridge or Busbridge to John Eliot of Godalming under Henry VIII.His son William, born 1587, was knighted in 1620 and built the old house of Busbridge, to judge from the features of the building, and formed the park, having a (royal) grant of free warren in his lands of in 1637, and died 1650.