Wormley, Surrey

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.

Wormley
Village
Wormley
Location within Surrey
Populationless than 5,000
OS grid referenceSU947383
District
  • Waverley
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHaslemere
Postcode districtGU8
Dialling code01428
PoliceSurrey
FireSurrey
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
  • South West Surrey

The name apparently joins the Old English wyrm, often meaning a dragon, and leah/lea, clearing.

History

Expansion from archetypal hamlet

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

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] The only public house, the Wood Pigeon, closed in 2007.[2]

Architecture and gardens

King Edward's School is a Grade II listed building,[3] the school war memorial is also Grade II listed.[4] Some of the gardens in Wormley were designed by Gertrude Jekyll, who collaborated with Edward Lutyens from her home in Busbridge, a nearby village.

Notable former residents
  • George Eliot is a former resident.
  • Louis de Bernières who based his collection of short stories, Notwithstanding,[5] on the local area. De Bernières muses whether Wormley is, or is no longer, the rural idyll.
  • Gertrude Mary Tuckwell lived the last twenty years of her life in Little Woodlands, Combe Lane.

References
  1. "Oceans Wormley". Oceans Wormley. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  2. "Lost Pubs in Witley, Surrey". The Lost Pubs Project. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  3. Historic England. "King Edward's School, Witley (1096890)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  4. Historic England. "King Edward's School War Memorial (1434041)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  5. De Bernières, Louis: Notwithstanding (Vintage 2010) ISBN 0099542021



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