This village only a few miles south of Godalming nestles in a picturesque valley beneath the wooded remains of a Romano-British Hill fort that to this day is occasionally used for ' alternative ' wedding ceremonies.

* Godalming Town F. C., which currently plays in the Ryman Division One South, level 8, of English football, was formed in 1950 and plays home games at Wey Court, Meadrow

Mary Toft ( née Denyer ; c. 1701 – 1763 ), also spelled Tofts, was an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits.

A British author of EFL course books, Louis Alexander was born in London and educated at Godalming Grammar School and the University of London, he taught English in Germany ( 1954 – 56 ) and Greece ( 1956 – 65 ) where he was head of English at the Protypon Lykeion, Athens ( what is now the Scholi Moraïti ).

He was asked to investigate the case of Mary Toft, an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits.

Michael Dennis " Mick " Mills ( born 4 January 1949 in Godalming, Surrey ) is an English former football full-back who, by the end of his career, had achieved Ipswich Town's record number of appearances and captained England at the 1982 World Cup.

The English family seat at Peper Harrow, near Godalming, Surrey, was designed by Sir William Chambers.

Godalming takes its name from the Old English Godhelm Ingas meaning " the clan of Godhelm ".

On a hill just south of Godalming town there was once a religious site dedicated to the war god Tiw at Tuesley ( Old English Tīws leah ) meaning " Tiw's Clearing ".

Godalming () is an historic market town and civil parish in the Waverley district of the county of Surrey, England.

* September 26 – Godalming in England becomes the first town to have its streets illuminated by electric light ( hydroelectrically generated ).

The town has existed since Saxon times ( see also Godalming ( hundred )), and probably earlier.

In 1764, trade received an additional boost when early canalisation of the river took place, linking the town to Guildford, and from there to the River Thames and London on the Wey and Godalming Navigations.

In 1726 a Godalming maidservant called Mary Toft hoaxed the town into believing that she had given birth to rabbits.

So successful was Godalming, that in the early 19th century it was considerably larger than today ’ s county town of Guildford, and by 1851 the population had passed 6, 500.

Today the town is served by Godalming railway station on the Portsmouth Direct Line.

Godalming came to world attention in September 1881, when it became the first town in the world to have installed a public electricity supply, which made electricity available to consumers.

Phillips is commemorated in a number of ways around the town, including a section of Godalming Museum, a memorial fountain, cloister and garden walk near the church ( the largest Titanic memorial in the world ), and a Wetherspoons pub named in his honour.

The world's first public electricity supply was provided in late 1881, when the streets of the Surrey town of Godalming in the UK were lit with electric light.

He was brought up in Godalming, a town with approximately 4, 000 inhabitants, in Surrey, England.

The main buildings date back to the opening of the line in 1859 and are of a " town " type, larger than other wayside stations on the route but identical to Godalming.

Bought by the local council from Lord Onslow in 1925 to prevent future building work and " remain for all time a lung of the town ", Stoke Park is the site of the annual music festival GuilFest, and was home for many years to the Old Guilfordians RFC before their merger with Guildford and Godalming RFC to form Guildford Rugby Club in 2003.

In the 11th Century a new parish church was built on recently drained land by the river in Godalming town.

In 1300 Godalming was granted the status of a town with a Town Warden and later a Mayor.

Catteshall is a hamlet between the town of Godalming and the villages of Unstead and Thorncombe Street accessible only by an unsurfaced track not suitable for most vehicles.

The station, which opened in 1859 to replace one on a different site of the town, is situated at the edge of the town of Godalming, England.

Farnham, together with Hindhead, Haslemere, Cranleigh and surrounding areas were absorbed into the new Waverley District Council ( latterly Waverley Borough Council ) with its headquarters in Godalming.

The road then intersects with the M25 and runs through Guildford as a dual carriageway standard before bypassing Godalming.

Godalming shares a three-way twinning arrangement with the towns of Joigny in France and Mayen in Germany.

After the turn of the new century Gertrude Jekyll offered a chapter of suggestions for " Wood and Shrubbery edges " in Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden ( London, 1908 ) in which her descriptions were based on her own garden at Munstead Wood, south of Godalming, Surrey, but her shrubbery and hardy perennial plantings were design to soften the effect " Where woodland joins garden ground there is often a sudden jolt ; the wood ends with a hard line, sometimes with a path along it, accentuating the defect.

He was almost certainly educated in one of the two schools in Godalming at the time, and could read and write with a legible hand.

Many petitioned to argue that the village's links, especially transport, are mainly with Guildford rather than the towns of Godalming and Farnham.

* Guildford: Ash with Heath End ; Chilworth and Gomshall ; Cranleigh with Bramley ; Farnham ; Godalming ; Guildford with Rydes Hill and Merrow ; Haslemere ; Hindhead and Chiddingfold ; Sutton Park ; University of Surrey

1786 saw Farnham pitted against such varied opposition as Berkshire, Warfield ( twice ), a Guildford & Godalming XXII, a Godalming XII with four of Hambledon and Hambledon with four of Sussex, and given his absence from the Hambledon scorecards, it's reasonable to assume that he played in some, if not all, of these games.

In 1985 another local club, Addlestone & Weybridge Town, folded and, before their ground at Liberty Lane was demolished, Godalming purchased the stand and perimeter fence, re-erecting the stand at Weycourt with seating and a fascia added.

It also provides a vital link to students attending Godalming College, with a couple of hundred students using the station on weekdays, coming from the south and north.

But following attempts to interfere with the team's documents, records and evidence, it moved to Godalming Police Station in Surrey outside the Metropolitan Police District.

He preached where he considered his services were most needed: Christchurch, London, Hertford, Dunmow, and Godalming to which at one time he commuted with three or four journeys a week from London.

Wakeham was educated at two independent schools in Surrey: at Aldro School in Shackleford, and at Charterhouse School near Godalming.

Dimbleby was born in Surrey and educated at two independent schools, the then Glengorse School in Battle, East Sussex, and Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey ( where he was a contemporary of Adam Raphael ).

He died from the cancer he had for seven years at the family home in Witley near Godalming in Surrey, on 26 July 1994, aged 67.

In 1896 he began work on a house for Jekyll at Munstead Wood, Godalming, Surrey.

Godalming grew in size because its location is roughly half-way between Portsmouth and London, which encouraged traders to set up stalls and inns for travellers to buy from and rest in.

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The next stations up and down the line are at Farncombe and Milford which in many respects ( for example transport and education ) are effectively suburbs of Godalming.

Founded in 1975 on the campus of Godalming Grammar School, it caters for sixteen-to nineteen-year-olds.

* Broadwater School is in the Farncombe area of Godalming, caters for young people from 11 to 16 and has no 6th form.

Godalming is also home to the The National Autistic Society resource centre for the south east.

GOLO is a community lottery for the Godalming Community.

The architect Sir Edwin Lutyens began work in 1896 on a house at Munstead Wood, Godalming, for the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.

The L & SWR's energies were not confined to the gauge wars in the early years, and branch lines were constructed to Salisbury ( as part of the thrust to the West ), Richmond, Gosport ( for Portsmouth ), and Godalming.

Whilst the Godalming and Holborn Viaduct Schemes closed after a few years the Brighton Scheme continued on, and supply was in 1887 made available for 24 hours per day.

Berezovsky bought a Belgravia flat, a house on Surrey's Wentworth Estate, and for a while owned the 172-acre Hascombe Court estate in Godalming.

Bargate stone is a highly durable form of sandstone, which was quarried for centuries in south west Surrey, England-particularly around Guildford and Godalming.

Wolfe made her way to Godalming, looking for work.

On 17 July 1942, the day after Hearn left for Canada, Wolfe met Sangret for the first time in a pub in Godalming.

* Godalming railway station, the three-letter station code for Godalming, England

Against a mostly professional attack Caesar made 67 and 46 as Godalming scored 161 and 192 for 5 and dismissed Surrey for 158 before Surrey " gave up ".