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Guildford (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l f ər d / ⓘ) [2] is a town in west Surrey, England, around 27 mi (43 km) south-west of central London.As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 [1] and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around 145,673 inhabitants in 2022. [3]
Guildford: Guildford Museum. ISBN 978-0-95-532510-6. Anonymous (1801). The history of Guildford, the county-town of Surrey containing its antient and present state... J and S Russell. p. 41. Cromwell, Thomas (1821). Excursions in the county of Surrey: comprising brief historical and topographical delineations, ...
Guildford High Street, including the Guildhall, circa 1828. The gilded outer casing of the Guildhall clock is dated 1683 The Guildhall, which initially accommodated a market hall on the ground floor and a courtroom on the first floor, was built around 1550. [ 1 ]
Sutton Place, 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east [n 1] of Guildford in Surrey, is a large Grade I listed [1] Tudor prodigy house built c. 1525 [2] by Sir Richard Weston (d. 1541), a courtier of Henry VIII. It is of importance to art history in showing some of the earliest traces of Italianate Renaissance design elements in English architecture.
The Borough of Guildford is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. With around half of the borough's population, Guildford is its largest settlement and only town, and is where the council is based. The borough includes part of the Surrey Hills, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Cricket makes its first appearance in history in Surrey, in a reference to the game being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford in the 16th century (see History of English cricket to 1696). Mitcham Cricket Club, formed in 1685 and the oldest documented club in the game's history, was within Surrey's borders until 1965. [103]
Artington is a village and civil parish in the borough of Guildford, Surrey, England.It covers the area from the southern edge of the built-up centre of Guildford and steep Guildown, [2] the start of the Hog's Back and part of the North Downs AONB, to New Pond Farm by Godalming and the edge of Peasmarsh.
Guildford and Freiburg im Breisgau coats of arms mosaic installed on the floor of the building. During the second half of the 16th century and into the 17th century, corn merchants conducted their trade on the ground floor off the Guildhall. This arrangement ceased in 1626, when trading moved to a space covered by a wooden canopy on the south ...