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Wormley, Surrey

Village and parish in Surrey, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wormley, Surrey
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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 (3.1 mi) SSW of Godalming.

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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.[2] The only public house, the Wood Pigeon, closed in 2007.[3]

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Architecture and gardens

King Edward's School is a Grade II listed building,[4] the school war memorial is also Grade II listed.[5] Gertrude Jekyll designed the gardens at Tigbourne Court and Wood End, houses both designed by Edward Lutyens.[6][7]

Notable former residents

  • Louis de Bernières (b. 1954) based his collection of short stories, Notwithstanding, on the local area.[8] In the afterword of the book, he muses whether Wormley is no longer a rural idyll.[9][10]
  • 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.[11]

References

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