South East England
Surrey
Guildford District

Guildford

Guildford 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.
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  • Type: Town with 66,800 residents
  • Description: county town of Surrey in England
  • Also known as: “Guildford, England”, “Guildford, Surrey”, “Guildford, Surrey, England”, “Guildford, Surrey, UK”, “Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom”, “Guildford, UK”, and “Guildford, United Kingdom”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guildford Cathedral and Guildford Castle.

Place of worship
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The Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit, Guildford, commonly known as , is the Anglican cathedral in Guildford, Surrey, England. Earl Onslow donated the first 6 acres of land on which the cathedral stands, with Viscount Bennett, a former Prime Minister of Canada, purchasing the remaining land and donating it to the cathedral in 1947.

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is in Guildford, , . It is thought to have been built by William the Conqueror, or one of his barons, shortly after the 1066 invasion of .

Railway station
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is at one of three main railway junctions on the Portsmouth Direct Line and serves the town of Guildford, in , England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Merrow and Burpham.

Suburb
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is a suburb in the north-east of Guildford, in , England. It is 2 miles from the town's centre, on the edge of the ridge of hills that forms the .

Suburb
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is a suburb of Guildford, a town in , England with an historic village centre. It includes , a parade of small shops, and the nationally recognised Sutherland Memorial Park.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the Guildford district, in , England on the A281 road immediately south of Guildford. It has a which is between Guildford and on the Reading to Gatwick Airport line.

Guildford

Latitude
51.2356° or 51° 14′ 8″ north
Longitude
-0.5732° or 0° 34′ 24″ west
Population
66,800
Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB GDD
Open location code
9C3X6CPG+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1688821544
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647793
Wiki­data ID
Q213465
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Guildford” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Guildford”
  • Arabic: “غلدفورد”
  • Arabic: “غيلدفورد”
  • Arabic: “غيلفورد”
  • Armenian: “Գիլֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Guildford”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qilford”
  • Basque: “Guildford”
  • Belarusian: “Гілфард”
  • Bengali: “গিল্ডফোর্ড”
  • Catalan: “Guildford”
  • Cebuano: “Guildford”
  • Central Kurdish: “گیڵدفۆرد”
  • Chinese: “僑福”
  • Chinese: “吉尔福德”
  • Chinese: “吉爾福德”
  • Czech: “Guildford”
  • Danish: “Guildford”
  • Dutch: “Guildford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جالدفورد”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيلفورد”
  • Esperanto: “Guildford”
  • Finnish: “Guildford”
  • French: “Guildford”
  • Georgian: “გილდფორდი”
  • German: “Guildford”
  • German: “Guilford”
  • Greek: “Γκίλντφορντ”
  • Greek: “Γκίλφορντ”
  • Gujarati: “ગિલ્ડફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “גילדפורד, סארי, אנגליה”
  • Hebrew: “גילדפורד, סארי”
  • Hebrew: “גילדפורד”
  • Hindi: “गिल्डफोर्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Guildford”
  • Icelandic: “Guildford”
  • Indonesian: “Guildford”
  • Interlingue: “Guildford”
  • Irish: “Guildford”
  • Italian: “Guildford”
  • Japanese: “ギルドフォード”
  • Japanese: “ギルフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಗಿಲ್ಡ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “길드퍼드”
  • Korean: “길퍼드”
  • Ladin: “Guildford”
  • Latin: “Geldeforda”
  • Latin: “Gilfordia”
  • Latin: “Guildfordium”
  • Latvian: “Gilforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Gildfordas”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guildford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guildford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guildford”
  • Norwegian: “Guildford”
  • Ossetian: “Гилфорд”
  • Persian: “گیلدفورد”
  • Persian: “گیلفورد”
  • Polish: “Guildford”
  • Portuguese: “Guildford”
  • Romanian: “Guildford”
  • Russian: “Guildford”
  • Russian: “Гилдфорд”
  • Russian: “Гилфорд”
  • Russian: “Гильдфорд”
  • Scots: “Guildford”
  • Serbian: “Gilford”
  • Serbian: “Guildford”
  • Serbian: “Гилдфорд”
  • Serbian: “Гилфорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guildford”
  • Silesian: “Guildford”
  • Slovenian: “Guildford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قیلدفورد”
  • Spanish: “Guildford”
  • Spanish: “Guilford”
  • Swedish: “Guildford”
  • Tagalog: “Guildford”
  • Tamil: “கில்டுபோர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Гилфорд”
  • Telugu: “గిల్డ్ ఫోర్డ్”
  • Turkish: “Guildford”
  • Ukrainian: “Гілдфорд”
  • Ukrainian: “Гілфорд”
  • Urdu: “گلڈفورڈ”
  • Urdu: “گلفورڈ”
  • Urdu: “گیلڈفورڈ”
  • Urdu: “گیلفورڈ”
  • Venetian: “Guildford”
  • Vietnamese: “Guildford”
  • Volapük: “Guildford”
  • Welsh: “Guildford”
  • Western Frisian: “Guildford”
  • Yue Chinese: “喬福”
  • “Guildford”

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