Gomshall
| Gomshall | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
 Gomshall Post Office and Mill | |
  Gomshall Location within Surrey | |
| Population | <1,000 |
| OS grid reference | TQ084480 |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Guildford |
| Postcode district | GU5 |
| Dialling code | 01483 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | |
Gomshall is a village in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England.[1]
It is on the A25, roughly halfway between Guildford and Dorking, and in Shere civil parish,[2] which, reaching to Peaslake and Colmar's Hill, in 2001 recorded a human population of 3,359.[3] Nearest places are Shere, Albury and Abinger Hammer.
The River Tillingbourne flows through Gomshall, while the North Downs Way passes just to the north. The village also has a railway station, served by Great Western Railway trains running between Reading and Redhill.
Services
Stagecoach offers daily bus services to nearby Bishop's Stortford ever hour, and every two hours arrives a bus from the nearby settlement of Salisbury. Gomshall proudly boasts a family pub with full parking facilities and live music every weekend, and an MOT testing centre where Trev the owner offers village residents a half-price discount on MOTs and oil/filter changes. trev and his boys are known to generously let customers off on the odd MOT fault (eg. windscreen wipers, external welding etc.) for the sake of an easy life and keeping the village spirit and friendliness among residents.
History
The Manor of Gumesele was a Saxon feudal landholding that originally included the present day Gomshall.[4]
Gomshall appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Gomeselle. It was held by William the Conqueror. Its domesday assets were: 1 mill worth 3s 4d, 20 ploughs, 3 acres (12,000 m2) of meadow, woodland worth 30 hogs. It rendered £30.[5]
In 1154, Henry II of England divided the Manor of Gumesele into three: West Gomshall, East Gomshall and Somersbury. In 1240, West Gomshall was granted to the Cistercian Abbey of Netley in Hampshire[6] and became known as Gomshall Netley. East Gomshall was granted to the Abbey of St Mary Graces, Tower Hill, London in 1376 and became known as Gomshall Towerhill.
For the 1380 poll tax, Gomshall had 267 names registered. The occupations written beside the names show land-holders and the usual country crafts but also a high proportion of skills relating to the wool trade; there were spinners and weavers, fullers and pelterers and many tailors.
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Local industries developed based on the plentiful and constant water supply of the River Tillingbourne. Those that survived into the 20th century, but are now gone, were corn milling, watercress growing, and leather tanning. Gomshall Mill, now a public house, was the corn mill. Netley Mill pumped water for the Hurtwood Water Company for part of its existence.
See also
References
- ^ OS Explorer map 145:Guildford and Farnham. Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton. ISBN 978 0319239261
- ^ Shere parish council Archived 2006-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Parish Headcounts, 2001". Neighbourhood Statistics. Retrieved 23 February 2007.
- ^ Ewhurst History Society Archived 2007-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Surrey Domesday Book Archived 2007-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ History report[permanent dead link]
External links
- Guildford Borough Council
- English Heritage search for buildings and monuments in Gomshall
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