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Worplesdon Place Hotel. Worplesdon Place Hotel near Guildford, Surrey is a house of historical significance. It appears to have been built in about 1845 by Sir William Bovill. It was a private residence for the next 100 years and was owned by several notable people. In the 1950s it became a hotel and still operates in this manner today.
Eventually listed as a Friary Meux Pub in 1968 the hotel was demolished and replaced by an unusual hexadecagonal building in 1974. The building was on three levels, and incorporated two bars, a coffee shop, a restaurant and twelve letting rooms. It closed in early 1993, and was later badly damaged by fire.
Guildford Bombing Memorial plaque in Quakers' Acre. The London-based IRA active service unit's next attack was the Woolwich pub bombing on 7 November 1974, [10] two people were killed in this attack, one soldier and a civilian who worked in the pub, over 30 people injured. [11] Two of the Guildford Four were also convicted of this attack. [12]
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]
In 1935 it became the Hog's Back Hotel, initially owned by the Guildford Friary Brewery, [6] and it remains a hotel, now officially known as the Hog's Back Hotel and Spa, Farnham. On the south side of the Hog's Back, a little to the east of Poyle Hill, another large mansion was built in 1873 called Great Down, attributed to Robert Kerr .
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The IRA began a bombing campaign in England in 1973 when they exploded a car bomb outside the Old Bailey on 8 March of that year. [2] [3] According to the leader of the Balcombe Street unit, the first bombing they carried out was the Guildford pub bombings on 5 October 1974, which killed five people and injured over 60 others. [4]
Georgian hotel/restaurant typical of many larger Surrey villages and its oldest towns. (from Portal:Surrey/Selected pictures ) Image 14 The lower end of the Staines-upon-Thames reach of the Thames, showing typical trees of the next reach and Penton Hook Island , a small nature reserve.