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East Clandon

 Ripley LanePart of an old route which goes from Ripley down the North Downs scarp via Combe Bottom to Shere and then ends up at the Roman villa near Ewhurst. This is one of the old roads connecting...

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West Horsley

 Leatherhead Road Pumping station. Woking Water and Gas Co. engine house and chimney. Chimney is for the original steam engine.Drinking trough by Metropolitan Drinking Fountains. 1909. Road by passed...

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West Horsley

 Lollesworth LaneLollesworth Farm.  18th brickWest Horsley Place. Long Brick mansion rebuilt c.1630. Big medieval house altered 16th.  Geraldine Room inside – unprepossessing. Owned by the Marchioness...

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West Horsley

 Leatherhead RoadSt.Mary'schurch. On the main road halfway between the village and East Horsley.  The church is near an ancient droveway to the Weald. Parts of the walls may be Saxon and the tower is...

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Sheep Walk

 SheepleasSurrey open space, particularlyattractive in autumn with its many woodland glades andsuperb beech trees. Sheepleas is popular locally but not muchknown elsewhereShere RoadPart of an old route...

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Horsley

 North Ockham RoadHorsley Station  1866

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East Horsley

 East HorsleyThe name relates to Saxon woodland clearances..  East Horsley model village built out of flint. Literally dozens in the same unmistakable style – they extend to the Downs.Barley Mow, shove...

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Fairlawne

 Fairlawne Park. Fairlawne House. used to be thehome of Sir Henry Vane who was executed by Charles II forhis support of Oliver Cromwell. Vane used his trial to make spirited defence of the sovereignty...

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Shipbourne

 Lady Vane CloseEstate housing and a double cottagePrimary SchoolShipbourne Stumble HillWood House. 1937 Gropious completed by Maxwell Fry. Architecturally of national interest.Chaser Village Green...

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Loseley

 Loseley House Open Farm with corn shop.  Loseley House. Elizabethan built by William More in 1560s, one of Elizabeth’s councillors.  Stone from Waverley Abbey.  Daughter married John Donne. Panelling...

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Guildford

 DennisvilleShepherds Lane 67 Suburban garden inviting a progress from forecourt alpine garden via fuchsia alley to rear gravel border, pond, lawns with mixed herbaceous and shrub borders. Specimen...

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Guildford

Stag HillGuildford Cathedral.  copper angel. Finally a see in 1927 using Holy Trinity church.  Competition for cathedral won by Maufe. Finished 1965. Curvilinear Gothic. Conservative even when first...

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Guildford

 Farnham RoadRoyal Surrey County Hospital. Dignified classical proportions.  Silly later porchHillier or Onslow Almshouses.  Moved from Shoreditch 1879. Fresh Norman Shaw style.

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Guildford

 Guildown AvenueAnglo Saxon burial ground. pagan burial ground including massacre victims with their hands tied behind their backs.  220 skeletons from the pagan Saxon occupation and rest from the...

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Stoke

 Leggs IslandAdjoining the Waterside Centre. It was created when the course of the river was altered under the River Wey Improvement Scheme of the 1930s with the making of a short straight cut. only...

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Guildford

 St. Joseph’s Road7-11 remains of the old village of Stoke.  16th attractive half-timbered building with one close-timbered gable with herringbone brick infilling, probably C16,Stoke Road Stoke Park....

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Guildford

 BuryfieldsCottages; a three-bay three-storey early c 18 house, The Court, 15 houses.  1902 slice of Hampstead Garden Suburb. A big half-H; courtyard of 15 houses by H. Thackeray Turner, Interesting...

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Shalford

 Chantry View RoadDurbins. House Roger Fry built for himself in 1913.  Roger Fry was the English discoverer of Cezanne, Picasso, and Marisa leader of the English avant-garde of 1910 and the inventor of...

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Shalford

 Farnham Road, Hogs Back line of old roadThe StreetShalford Church. Bunyan lived here and church may be an influence. Slim spire of church rebuilt in 1846Stocks in the church yardAncient stone with a...

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Bellfields

 Riverside ParkMost of the land between the towpath and the A3 road is Guildford's Riverside Park. When the Borough Council created this leisure area it bridged the ditch and made a route for...

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