Farncombe railway station
Farncombe railway station opened in 1897 as a minor stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line between Guildford and Godalming, England. It is said to have been built at the instigation of General Sir Frederick Marshall, a director of the London and South Western Railway Company, who lived nearby at Broadwater.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Farncombe, Surrey, England, UK
- Also known as: “Farncombe Railway Station”, “Farncombe Railway Station With Attached Footbridge Former Railway Station Building”, “Farncombe station”, and “FNC”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St John the Evangelist Church and Broadwater Park.
St John the Evangelist Church
Church
Photo: Michael FORD, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John the Evangelist Church is situated 510 feet south of Farncombe railway station.
Broadwater Park
Community center
Photo: Surrey101, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Broadwater Park is a cricket ground during the summer, and football ground through winter, located in Farncombe, Surrey. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1827, when the ground hosted a match between East and West Sussex. Broadwater Park is situated 2,100 feet northeast of Farncombe railway station.
Meadrow Unitarian Chapel
Church
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Meadrow Unitarian Chapel is a Unitarian chapel in the Farncombe area of Godalming, Surrey, England. It is part of the London District and South Eastern Provincial Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, one of 16 districts within the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organisation for British Unitarians. Meadrow Unitarian Chapel is situated 2,000 feet southeast of Farncombe railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Farncombe and Compton.
Farncombe
Suburb
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Farncombe, historically Fernecome, is a village and peripheral settlement of Godalming in Waverley, Surrey, England and is approximately 0.8 miles north-east of the Godalming centre, separated by common land known as the Lammas Lands.
Compton
Village
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Compton is a village and civil parish in the Guildford district of Surrey, England. It is about 3 miles WSW of the centre of Guildford. 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. Compton is situated 1½ miles northwest of Farncombe railway station.
Shalford
Village
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Shalford is a village and civil parish in the Guildford district, in Surrey, England on the A281 Horsham road immediately south of Guildford. It has a railway station which is between Guildford and Dorking on the Reading to Gatwick Airport line. Shalford is situated 2 miles northeast of Farncombe railway station.
Farncombe railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Godalming, Waverley District, Surrey, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.19715° or 51° 11′ 50″ northLongitude
-0.60437° or 0° 36′ 16″ westElevation
144 feet (44 metres)Operator
South Western RailwayNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“FNC”Open location code
9C3X59WW+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 4803308340OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to French—“Farncombe railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Farncombe”
- Dutch: “Station Farncombe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة فارنكومب”
- French: “Farncombe”
- French: “gare de Farncombe”
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