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Walliswood maps
Historic maps of Walliswood and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Walliswood maps
Walliswood photos
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Gatton| Ockley| Forest Green| Ewhurst| Rudgwick| Warnham| Leith Hill| Bucks Green| Capel| Cranleigh| Holmbury St Mary| Broadbridge Heath| Slinfold| Coldharbour| Abinger Common| Alfold Crossways| Friday Street| Beare Green| Peaslake| Alfold| Horsham| Rusper| Itchingfield| Holmwood| Abinger Hammer| Farley Green| South Holmwood| Newdigate| Wotton| Loxwood
Walliswood area books
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Memories of Walliswood
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Surrey memories
The Royal Alexandra & Albert School
I came here at almost 5 years of age, in September 1949, to commence my schooling with the then newly amalgamated Royal Alexandra and Royal Albert Schools - both being of London orphanage origins from the mid-eighteenth century. The beautiful 250 acre estate, formerly belonging to the late Sir Jeremiah Colman ("The Mustard King") was acquired by the newly-formed RAAS shortly after Sir Jeremiah's demise in 1948, and I was among the very first juvenile occupants in Gatton Hall's new guise as a boarding school. In the 62 years since then, there have been significant developments and additional school buildings; most were completed by 1953, but as the school and it's requirements have expanded, so too have the considerable number of additional buildings and facilities - all sympathetically in keeping with the ambience of the estate, which has much history. In 1086 it was mentioned in the Domesday Book, given parliamentary borough status in 1450 with it's own rudimentary 'Town Hall' (still standing), and was landscaped into parkland in 1766... Read more
Leonard Douglas Martin Born 1892 Gatton Park
My grandfather Leonard Martin was born on the Gatton Park Estate in 1892, where his father George Martin was the 'Head Coachman Domestic'. The family actually occupied four rooms over the stables. He went to school on the estate, and I have a couple of photographs of him there, when he was five years old.
I would love to discover more information about the Gatton Park Estate at that time and whether anyone else has family connections to this place.
Wartime Funeral
My mother died in 1943,when I was still a child. It was strange, terrible time but I remember vividly standing in the peaceful churchyard at the burial. The place is dear to my heart.
My Forest Green Family
I moved to Forest Green when I was 2 but my whole family comes from the area. Christine Dendy (my maternal grandmother) was born in the village. Her parents were a housemaid and a gamekeeper/odd-job man for the Vaughan-Williams estate. My grandmother was born in the row of First World War council houses erected behind the village green and she married the son of a village shopkeeper from Ockley. Their children were my mother and my uncle. My mother married a Londoner she met through her job and I am one of her four children. Two years ago my husband and I upheld four generations of tradition when we married in Forest Green church and were doubly proud to display my grandmother's wedding pics from the same venue! Hopefully at some point we will move back to the area, though sadly the village school at Walliswood which at least four generations of my family attended has been closed.
Coneyhurst Farm
I am researching my family tree and I have learned that my ancestor George Worsfold born around 1799 ran Coneyhurst Farm in Ewhurst in the mid to late 1800s. He had 7 children and a lot of other relatives also in Ewhurst and Cranleigh. I am hoping to discover more and perhaps visit Ewhurst soon.
Ewhurst War Memorial
For more information on the men from Ewhurst who served and fell or returned from the First World War, details can be found at www.ewhurstfallen.co.uk.
"The number of volunteers from Ewhurst and Ellen's Green was 'second to none'. The memorials show the price they paid"
Walter Stemp, one of the village's veterans.
Temporary Home
When my maternal grandparents' house "Hobart", Mount Road, Cranleigh was bombed during World War Two we were housed temporarily above the the Crown Inn whilst the bomb was defused and the house put back in order.
