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Godalming was an ancient hundred in the south west of the county of Surrey, England. It corresponds to the central third of the current borough of Waverley and some parts of the current borough of Guildford .
The Godalming Youth Orchestra was founded in 1979 and welcomes players of orchestral instruments between the ages of 8 and 17. [245] The Godalming Theatre Group was founded as the Youth Centre Theatre Group in 1964. It typically performs three times a year - a musical in the spring, a play in the autumn and a pantomime at Christmas. Local ...
Sir John Eliot was born at Port Eliot on April 11, 1592. Quickly rising to political power, he was a prominent advocate for the rights of Parliament. [6] His serial imprisonment at the Tower of London by King Charles I and the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death in 1632 were important catalysts in the growing dispute between parliament and the king. [6]
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")
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 from 1921. [8] The building was grade II listed in 1947. [1] The museum remained on the first floor until 1987, when it moved to a larger building on the south side of the High ...
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His first wife was Julia Arnold (1862–1908), founder in 1902 of Prior's Field School a still existing girls' school in Godalming, Surrey. [7] Through her Leonard was connected to the intellectual family of the Arnolds: his wife's father was Tom Arnold (1823–1900), who married Julia Sorell, granddaughter of a former governor of Tasmania.
Godalming Friends Meeting House is a Friends meeting house (Quaker place of worship) in the ancient town of Godalming in the English county of Surrey. One of many Nonconformist places of worship in the town, it dates from 1748 but houses a congregation whose roots go back nearly a century earlier.