Farncombe

Farncombe is a railway stop in Godalming, Waverley District, England. Farncombe is situated nearby to St John the Evangelist Church, as well as near the health club Eliot Edward.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Farncombe railway station and St John the Evangelist Church.

Farncombe railway station

Railway station

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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.

St John the Evangelist Church

Church

Photo: Michael FORD, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St John the Evangelist Church is situated 520 feet south of Farncombe.

Broadwater Park

Community center

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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.

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.

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.

Farncombe

Type: Railway stop
Categories: transport stop and transportation
Location: Godalming, Waverley District, Surrey, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.19716° or 51° 11′ 50″ north

Longitude

-0.60438° or 0° 36′ 16″ west

Open location code

9C3X59WW+V6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 20019512

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=stop_position

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=stop

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