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Wormley, Surrey

Village and parish in Surrey, England

Summary

Village and parish in Surrey, England

FieldValue
typeVillage
countryEngland
coordinates
official_nameWormley
map_typeSurrey
civil_parishWitley and Milford
shire_districtWaverley
shire_countySurrey
regionSouth East England
constituency_westminsterGodalming and Ash
post_townHaslemere
postcode_districtGU8
postcode_areaGU
dial_code01428
os_grid_referenceSU947383
static_imageKing Edward's School, Witley - geograph.org.uk - 1572866.jpg
static_image_captionKing Edward's School

Wormley is a village in the civil parish of Witley and Milford, in the Waverley district, in Surrey, England, around Witley station, off the A283 Petworth Road about 5 km SSW of Godalming.

History

Expansion from archetypal hamlet

Wormley developed primarily as a result of the construction in the 19th century of Witley station, on the Portsmouth Direct line. King Edward's School, Witley once had its own station platform.

Former businesses

Cooper & Sons Ltd owned the Combelane walking stick factory; this was replaced by houses with small gardens and a light industrial estate. The Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory was here from 1952 to 1995, housed in the former Admiralty Signals Establishment building on Brook Road. The only public house, the Wood Pigeon, closed in 2007.

Architecture and gardens

King Edward's School is a Grade II listed building, the school war memorial is also Grade II listed. Gertrude Jekyll designed the gardens at Tigbourne Court and Wood End, houses both designed by Edward Lutyens.

Notable former residents

  • Louis de Bernières (b. 1954) based his collection of short stories, Notwithstanding, on the local area. In the afterword of the book, he muses whether Wormley is no longer a rural idyll.
  • George Eliot (1819–1880) was a resident.
  • Gertrude Mary Tuckwell (1861–1951) lived the last twenty years of her life in Little Woodlands, Combe Lane.

References

References

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  6. Brown, Jane. (1982). "Gardens of a Golden Afternoon. The Story of a Partnership: Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll". Allen Lane.
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  8. Driscoll-Woodford, Heather. (4 November 2009). "Stories from an English village". BBC News.
  9. De Bernières, Louis. (2010). "Notwithstanding". Vintage.
  10. Nikkhah, Roya. (4 October 2009). "Louis de Bernieres: 'These are my stories of a vanished England'". The Telegraph.
  11. John, Angela V.. (25 May 2006). "Tuckwell, Gertrude Mary".
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