Godalming

Godalming is a Town in the county of Surrey.

There are great places to visit near Godalming.

Godalming History

There are some historic monuments around Godalming:

The treadwheel crane
Hascombe Camp: a small multivallate hillfort north west of Lodge Farm
Medieval undercroft at 72/74 High Street
Disc barrow on Whitmoor Common
Guildford Castle
Eashing Bridge, Lower Eashing
Medieval moated site, South Park Farm
Somerset Bridge
Bowl barrow 430m north of Thursley Lake: one of a group of four bowl barrows on Witley Common
Earth circles on St Martha's Hill
Bowl barrow 90m west of Tyting Farm
Anglo-Saxon fortified centre at Eashing
Bowl barrow 400m north-east of the sewage works: one of a group of four bowl barrows on Witley Common
Hillbury hillfort
Pair of bowl barrows on Thursley Common
Linear boundary on Whitmoor Common
Frowsbury Mound: a bowl barrow 70m south of Clear Barn
Bowl barrow 200m east of Penmead Copse: one of a group of four bowl barrows on Witley Common
Bowl barrow on Witley Common 250m north of Stable Lake: one of a group of four bowl barrows on Witley Common
Old Manor House (site of) W of Roman Catholic church, Sutton Park
Romano-Celtic temple complex 385m west of Long Common
St Catherine's Chapel
Medieval undercroft remains at Nos 50-52 High Street, Guildford
Henley Fort: a London mobilisation centre
Chilworth gunpowder works
Roman villa N of Limnerslease, Down Lane
Chiddingfold Roman villa
St Mary's Church, 268m east of Ladywell Convent
Elstead Bridge
Medieval moated site of Guildford Park Manor, Manor Farm

History of Godalming

The town has existed since Saxon times (see also Godalming (hundred)), and probably earlier. It is mentioned in the will of King Alfred the Great in 899 (where it and Guildford are gifted to Alfred’s nephew, Ãthelwold) and the name itself has Saxon origins, ‘Godhelms Ingus’ roughly translated as “the family of Godhelm”, and probably referring to one of the first lords of the manor.

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