Godalming

Godalming is an ancient English market town sitting on the River Wey, in , . 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Godalming railway station and Farncombe railway station.

Railway station
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is a stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line, 34 miles 37 chains down the line from . The station, opened in 1859 to replace one on a different site, is situated at the edge of the town of , Surrey.

Railway station
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opened in 1897 as a minor stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line between Guildford and , 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.

Museum
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is an art gallery in the village of , near in . The 18 acre site includes a collection of buildings, including the home and artist studio of Victorian-era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts and artist and designer Mary Watts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Guildford and Milford.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a large town in in the South East of . 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.

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of Witley and south west of in , England. It was a small village in the early medieval period — it grew significantly after the building of the Portsmouth Direct Line which serves and its own . is situated 2½ miles southwest of Godalming.

Godalming

Latitude
51.1967° or 51° 11′ 48″ north
Longitude
-0.6127° or 0° 36′ 46″ west
Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)
Open location code
9C3X59WP+MW
Geo­Names ID
7297353
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