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Godalming takes its name from the Old English Godhelm Ingas meaning "the clan of Godhelm". [1] It is supposed that Godhelm was a Saxon chieftain who first colonised this dry land, bordered by swamps and a steep valley as he and his folk moved up the valley of the River Wey.
Places in the ancient Godalming hundred of Surrey (with their probable meanings) include: Alfold ("old enclosure") Amberley (Imberlēah meaning "riverside clearing") Artington (from heorotingdon meaning "hill of the people of the sacred hart" [1] Bagmoor (possibly from the personal name Bacca + Moor, or perhaps meaning "badger's moor")
At the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086 the county was divided into the hundreds as they are now, except that the Isle of Ely, which then formed two hundreds having their meeting-place at Witchford, were subsequently divided into the four hundreds of Wisbech, Ely, North Witchford and South Witchford, while Cambridge formed a hundred by ...
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The oldest surviving record of Godalming is from a c. 1000 copy of the c. 880 – c. 885 will of Alfred the Great, in which the settlement appears as Godelmingum.The name is written as Godelminge in the Domesday Book of 1086, and later as Godelminges (c. 1150 – c. 1200), Godhelming (c. 1170 – c. 1230), Godalminges (c. 1220 – c. 1265) and Godalmyn (c. 1485 – c. 1625).
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The building soon proved too small for public meetings, and in 1861, a public hall was constructed on Bridge Street, which was later extended to form Godalming Borough Hall. [ 3 ] Meanwhile, at the Pepperpot, a new cantilevered stair tower was added in the 1890s, [ 1 ] and the room on the first floor was used to accommodate the Godalming Museum ...