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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 Castle is in Guildford, Surrey, England. It is thought to have been built by William the Conqueror , or one of his barons, shortly after the 1066 invasion of England . History
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.
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.
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]
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 ...
St Mary's Church tower, which is built of rough flint, is the oldest surviving piece of architecture in Guildford [5] being at least 70 years older than the nearby Guildford Castle. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] As the castle was a popular royal residence in the 12th and 13th centuries and as St Mary's is very close to it, it was used occasionally for royal ...
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.