Godalming
Godalming is an ancient English market town sitting on the River Wey, in Surrey, England. Godalming 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Godalming railway station and Charterhouse School.
Godalming railway station
Railway station
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Godalming railway station is a stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line, 34 miles 37 chains down the line from London Waterloo. The station, opened in 1859 to replace one on a different site, is situated at the edge of the town of Godalming, Surrey.
Charterhouse School
School
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Charterhouse is a public school in Godalming, Surrey, England. Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London, it educates over 1000 pupils, aged 13 to 18 years.
Farncombe railway station
Railway station
Photo: Bashereyre, Public domain.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Guildford and Milford.
Guildford
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Guildford is a large town in Surrey in the South East of England. It has retained much of its historical charm. A short walk up the cobbled high street shows many buildings which are hundreds of years old.
Milford
Village
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Milford is a village in the civil parish of Witley and Milford south west of Godalming in Surrey, England. It was a small village in the early medieval period — it grew significantly after the building of the Portsmouth Direct Line which serves Godalming railway station and its own minor stop railway station. Milford is situated 2½ miles southwest of Godalming.
Godalming
- Type: Locality
- Location: Waverley District, Surrey, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.1967° or 51° 11′ 48″ northLongitude
-0.6127° or 0° 36′ 46″ westElevation
240 feet (73 metres)Open location code
9C3X59WP+MWGeoNames ID
7297353
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