Compton

Compton is a village and civil parish in the Guildford district of , England. It is about 3 miles WSW of the centre of . It has a medieval church and a close connection with fine art and pottery: it was the later life home of artist George Frederic Watts.
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  • Type: Village with 1,050 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in the Guildford district of Surrey, England
  • Also known as: “Compton, Guildford” and “Compton, Surrey”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pucks Oak Barn and McAlmont Reserves and Eastbury Manor.

Public building
Photo: P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a 4-hectare nature reserve near Compton, west of in . It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

Nursing home
Photo: BabelStone, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a nursing home.

Church
Photo: Wyrdlight, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The or Watts Mortuary Chapel is a in a Modern Style version of Celtic Revival in the village of Compton in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Farncombe and Onslow Village.

Suburb
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, historically Fernecome, is a village and peripheral settlement of in Waverley, Surrey, and is approximately 0.8 miles north-east of the Godalming centre, separated by common land known as the Lammas Lands. is situated 1½ miles southeast of Compton.

Suburb
Guildford is a town in west , England, around 27 mi southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town had a population of about 77,000; it is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around 151,359 inhabitants in 2024. is situated 2 miles northeast of Compton.

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is an ancient English market town sitting on the River Wey, in , . has existed since Saxon times. It was a wool manufacturing and trading center in medieval times, later followed by a substantial pioneering phase in tanning, leatherworking and related industries.

Compton

Latitude
51.21374° or 51° 12′ 50″ north
Longitude
-0.6323° or 0° 37′ 56″ west
Population
1,050
Elevation
207 feet (63 metres)
Open location code
9C3X6979+F3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30361710
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2652489
Wiki­data ID
Q5157132
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Urdu—“Compton” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “কম্পটন”
  • Catalan: “Compton”
  • Cebuano: “Compton”
  • Chinese: “Compton”
  • Chinese: “坎普頓”
  • Chinese: “康普頓”
  • Chinese: “康普顿”
  • Dutch: “Compton”
  • French: “Compton”
  • German: “Compton”
  • Greek: “Κόμπτον”
  • Gujarati: “કોમ્પટન”
  • Irish: “Compton”
  • Italian: “Compton”
  • Japanese: “コンプトン (サリー)”
  • Japanese: “コンプトン”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂಪ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “콤프턴”
  • Ladin: “Compton (Surrey)”
  • Ladin: “Compton”
  • Lithuanian: “Komptonas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Compton (Surrey)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Compton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Compton”
  • Persian: “کمپتون، گیلدفورد”
  • Polish: “Compton (Guildford)”
  • Polish: “Compton”
  • Portuguese: “Compton”
  • Russian: “Комптон”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کمپتون، قیلدفورد”
  • Spanish: “Compton”
  • Swedish: “Compton (parish i Storbritannien, England, Surrey)”
  • Swedish: “Compton, Guildford”
  • Tamil: “காம்ப்டன்”
  • Telugu: “కాంప్టన్”
  • Turkish: “Compton, Guildford”
  • Ukrainian: “Комптон”
  • Urdu: “کامپٹن، گلڈفورڈ”

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