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Wormley is a village in Surrey , England in the parish of Witley , around Witley station , off the A283 Petworth Road about 5 km (3.1 mi ) SSW of Godalming .
History [ edit ]
Expansion from archetypal hamlet [ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
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.[1] Wood Pigeon , closed in 2007.[2]
Architecture and gardens [ edit ]
King Edward's School is a Grade II listed building ,[3] [4] Gertrude Jekyll designed the gardens at Tigbourne Court and Wood End, houses both designed by Edward Lutyens .[5] [6]
Notable former residents [ edit ]
George Eliot (1819–1880) is a former resident.
Gertrude Mary Tuckwell (1861–1951) lived the last twenty years of her life in Little Woodlands, Combe Lane.[7]
Louis de Bernières (b. 1954) who based his collection of short stories, Notwithstanding , on the local area.[8] [9] [10]
References [ edit ]
^ "Lost Pubs in Witley, Surrey" . The Lost Pubs Project . Retrieved 1 February 2019 .
^ Historic England . "King Edward's School, Witley (1096890)" . National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 1 February 2019 .
^ Historic England. "King Edward's School War Memorial (1434041)" . National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 1 February 2019 .
^ Brown, Jane (1982). Gardens of a Golden Afternoon. The Story of a Partnership: Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll . London: Allen Lane. p. 164. ISBN 0-7139-1440-8
^ Historic England. "Wood End (Grade II) (1334351)" . National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 8 October 2023 .
^ John, Angela V. (25 May 2006). "Tuckwell, Gertrude Mary". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/36572 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Driscoll-Woodford, Heather (4 November 2009). "Stories from an English village" . BBC News . Retrieved 8 October 2023 .
^ De Bernières, Louis (2010). "Afterword". Notwithstanding . Vintage. ISBN 0099542021
^ Nikkhah, Roya (4 October 2009). "Louis de Bernieres: 'These are my stories of a vanished England' . The Telegraph . Retrieved 8 October 2023 .
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a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● M o b i l e v i e w
