Godalming
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 11 ′ N , 0 ° 37 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SU9744 | ||
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| Residents | 21,514 (as of April 29, 2001) | ||
| surface | 1,579 km² (609.66 mi² ) | ||
| Population density: | 14 inhabitants per km² | ||
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| Post town | Godalming | ||
| ZIP code section | GU7 | ||
| prefix | 01483 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| Website: godalming-tc.gov.uk | |||
Godalming [ ˈgɒdəlmɪŋ ] is a small town in England with a population of about 20,000. It is located in the southern county of Surrey and is the administrative seat of the Waverley Borough .
location
Godalming is located in the Rolling Hills Of Surrey on the River Wey about 60 kilometers southwest of London , near Guildford . Other nearby towns are Farnham and Haslemere . Godalming is one of the wooded areas of England and is located on the valley floor where the river could easily be bridged.
The crest
Since Godalming used to have a lot to do with the textile industry , the city's coat of arms shows a wool sack. The top people of the city used to be the Bishops of Salisbury , and for this reason the emblem also shows Salisbury Cathedral in Hampshire .
economy
Godalming benefited from being on the trade route to Portsmouth near what is now the A3 , the major port on the south coast. Some of the buildings in the town center on the main street are reminiscent of the half-timbered inns called coaching inns in England . The wagoners used to spend the night there on the way from London to Portsmouth.
Today the city lies more in the shadow of the much larger neighboring town of Guildford , which is only ten kilometers north. Most of the residents work in the capital. Today there are only a few small shops and restaurants in Godalming . The largest markets are on the city's northern belt, where there are still some industrial parks. Once stood there, the river port The Wharf . Today you can take a boat across the River Wey to the Thames , which used to be important as a small canalised waterway.
Attractions
One of the sights is the parish church of St. Peter and Paul , whose foundation walls go back to the 11th century . A feature of the church is the curved steeple. Also worth seeing is the city museum, where an entire section is dedicated to General James Oglethorpe, who founded the Georgia colony in what is now the United States in 1730 . Nearby is the Charterhouse School , a private school . The former town hall, the so-called "Pepperpot", was built in 1814 and looks like a windmill. In addition, the coaching inns , which were previously used as accommodation for carters, are very popular with non-residents .
Twin cities
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Jack Phillips (1887–1912), radio operator on the Titanic
- Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), writer
- John Wakeham (* 1932), British economic manager and politician with the Conservative Party
- Mick Mills (born 1949), football player
- Jeremy Hunt (born 1966), British Conservative Party politician
- Sam Worthington (born 1976), Australian actor
People who worked on site
- George Ferguson Bowen (1821–1899), first governor of the British colonies of Queensland, governor of New Zealand, Victoria, Mauritius and Hong Kong, attended the Charterhouse School in Godalming
- William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), traveler to the Orient, attended the Charterhouse School
- Mary Toft (1703–1763), a maid from Godalming, achieved fame in 1726 for allegedly giving birth to rabbits
- Orde Wingate (1903-1944), British major general, attended the Charterhouse School
Trivia
Lord Godalming is the nobility title of the protagonist Arthur Holmwood in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula .
