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Compton, The Village c.1955
Photo ref:
C146032
More about this scene
North-west of Godalming, Compton is famed for the Watts Gallery and Chapel, commemorating the Victorian painter George Frederick Watts. I first visited the village many years ago for its superb Norman parish church. This view, looking downhill, is now barely recognisable: the cottages by the telegraph pole were cleared for 1960s road widening. Ellis, the baker and grocer (left), is now an antique shop. Beyond the Harrow Inn, the pub on the right, stands the village hall; its foundation stone was laid by Mrs Watts, the artist's widow, in 1934.
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