Tilford
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Tilford books (24 available)
- 4 photos on Tilford appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Tilford
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Summer Swims
Both as a child and with my own children a lovely place to paddle and have lunch
Contributed by michelle cutmore
Surrey memories
Summer Swims
Both as a child and with my own children a lovely place to paddle and have lunch
A memory of Tilford contributed by michelle cutmore
The Abbey Moor Park & the ghost of Jonathan Swift.
I went to Farnham art school in 1968-1971, and at that time, Moor Park was used as a conference centre, available for hire, and inclusive of staff and an elderly chaplain called Dr Bird. As you know, Moor Park was the first place Jonathan Swift worked at when he arrived in England, and he was secretary to Sir William Temple. We had a conference there over a period of days, and - as we were warned - something strange always happened at these events. Our one involved a sort of mass-hysteria which was amusingly disruptive. We all blamed Dean Swift for these events afterwards.
The whole area encompassing Waverley Abbey, Stella's Cottage, Mother Ludlam's Hole, Father Foote's Hole and Moor ...read more here
A memory of Waverley contributed by First name Last name
Good times
I always remember stopping off for a paddle here on my way home from Frensham Junior school. I remember my nan used to give me my bus fare. But I used to prefer to walk along past the pond so I could stop for a quick paddle.
A memory of Frensham contributed by susan white
Extracts From Tilford & Surrey books
Two arms of the River Wey meet here, and an ancient bridge spans each arm. The bridges were almost
certainly constructed by the monks of nearby Waverley Abbey, which was built in 1128. It was the first
Cistercian abbey in England, and was dissolved in 1536. For years its stones were robbed for other
buildings, but its ruins still give a glimpse of how it would have once looked.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
Behind the Barley Mow pub in the centre of the picture, the northern and southern branches of the River Wey unite. Just beyond is the famous Tilford Oak, measured by William Cobbett in 1822 and found to be more than thirty feet in girth. Although he described it as the finest tree he had ever seen, 101 years later it is clearly beyond its prime. The cottage next door was, for the last forty years of his life, the home of the renowned cricketer William 'Silver Billy' Beldham, whose exploits made him the greatest player of the Regency and Georgian periods. He died here in 1862 at the age of ninety-six.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
Tilford is situated where the
south branch of the River Wey
meets the main River Wey,
each branch crossed by a
medieval bridge. This is the
bridge over the main Wey, built
in dark brown greensand or
Bargate stone with timber fence
parapets. Across the bridge is
the Post Office and Store, the
building with the two gables,
while between it and the
bridge, just discernible, is a
concrete World War II concrete
pillbox. There is a large
triangular village green behind
the photographer.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".
Three of Church Street’s five pubs are in this photo - the Corn Meter extreme left, the Star
centre left, and the Live and Let Live just beyond the archway on the right. The arch led to
the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a
temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".
In Edwardian days cyclists frequented Godalming, especially at weekends. There was a demand
for teashops, and Church Street had three - one is on the left here. Also very popular was the
sending of picture postcards, which served people much as the telephone does today - Eatons
paper shop, on the left, claimed to have the largest selection.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".