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Wood Street Village is a clustered and linear village in Surrey, England with a village green, buffered by Metropolitan Green Belt on all sides. It is centred 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Guildford and is part of the civil parish of Worplesdon (where the 2011 Census population was included), as well as continuing to be served semi-dependently as a chapelry of the Church of England.
A turnpike road through Guildford, between London and Portsmouth, was created in 1749 [68] and nine years later the roads across the Hog's Back and towards Leatherhead were also turnpiked. The present Farnham Road was built c. 1800. [69] The most recent major change to the local road network was the opening of the A3 Guildford Bypass in 1934. [70]
Worplesdon is a village 3.1 miles (5.0 km) NNW of Guildford in Surrey, England and a large dispersed civil parish that includes the settlements of: Worplesdon itself (including its central church area, Perry Hill), Fairlands, Jacobs Well, Rydeshill and Wood Street Village, all various-sized smaller settlements, well-connected by footpaths and local roads.
Jacobs Well or Jacobswell [n 1] is a small village in Surrey, England, of 20th century creation, with a population of 1,171.The village forms a northern outskirt of Guildford, in the civil parish of Worplesdon which can be considered the mother village of medieval date to the west.
Fairlands is the largest settlement (neighbourhood) of Worplesdon, a village with a civil parish council in the Borough of Guildford, Surrey, England.The neighbourhood is centred 2.6 miles (4.2 km) north-west of Guildford, to which it is linked by a relatively straight road.
Route 462, operated by White Bus between Guildford and Woking, join and leave the A3 at Burpham. Buses run bi-hourly Monday to Saturday, with no Sunday service. Additionally, Route 715 between Guildford and Kingston, operated by Falcon Buses, [15] runs the same route through Burpham as Route 462. This is an hourly service Monday to Saturday ...
Normandy is a village and civil parish of 16.37 square kilometres (4,050 acres) in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England. Almost surrounded by its hill ranges, Normandy is in the plain west of Guildford, straddles the A323 'Aldershot Road' and is north of the narrowest part the North Downs known as the Hog's Back which carries a dual carriageway.
The town of Guildford was an ancient borough, with its first known charter dating from 1257. [2] It was reformed to become a municipal borough in 1836 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, which standardised the way many boroughs operated across the country.