Chilworth, Surrey
Chilworth | ||
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Village | ||
Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Guildford | |
Postcode district | GU4 | |
Dialling code | 01483 | |
Police | Surrey | |
Fire | Surrey | |
Ambulance | South East Coast | |
UK Parliament | ||
Chilworth is a village in the
Geography
The village is in the
Environment
Unlike most Surrey districts the borough has no Air Quality Management Areas.[3] Flooding from the Tillingbourne (alluvial flooding) is a rare occurrence with small parts of the north and west having been identified by the Borough Council as being at risk.[4]
History
Chilworth, as a landholding, appears in
The settlement has a rich industrial past. At various times in history it has been the location of a wire mill, paper mill and gunpowder factory.[6] The wireworks were built in 1603[7] by Thomas Steere and others, who seduced workmen from the Tintern wireworks of the Company of Mineral and Battery Works. This infringed the latter company's patent and enabled it to have the wireworks suppressed in 1606.[8]
The Chilworth gunpowder works were established in 1625 by the
Before the railway was built, Chilworth was a hamlet of a few cottages around the bridge over the Tillingbourne on the direct lane to Guildford via Tyting, where the main entrance to the gunpowder works was located.[10] The second nucleus of settlement was the railway station, with its pub. A third nucleus was around a post office on the A248 in Shalford CP, which was known as "Shalford Hamlet" until around the Second World War.[11]
Since 2011
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Chilworth from the hill to the north
Chilworth Manor
Amenities
Chilworth has three churches, St Thomas' CoE, Chilworth Free Church and St Martha's, as well as the Roman Catholic St Augustine's Abbey, south of the village. There are two schools, Chilworth Infant School and Tillingbourne Junior School; a gastro-pub, the Percy Arms and a village shop. The village has a recreation ground with a sports pavilion, used for football.[2]
Transport
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Chilworth railway station is on the North Downs Line, and is served every two hours by trains to Redhill and Reading. Trains are operated by the Great Western Railway.
The main road through the village is the A248 from Shere to Peasmarsh. Bus route number 32 connects Chilworth to Guildford, and Redhill via Dorking and is a basic hourly service, with a reduced service on Sundays. It is now operated by Compass Travel, after the route was given up by Arriva in 2014. Infrequent buses also run to Godalming (503) and Cranleigh (525).
The nearest airport is Farnborough, approximately 10 miles (16 km) to the north-west.
Telecommunications
Chilworth is covered by
Broadband for Surrey Hills (B4SH) installed full fibre (
See also
- List of places of worship in Guildford (borough)
External links
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- St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth
- Chilworth Infant School
- Chilworth Community Playgroup
- St Martha Parish Council
- Surrey County Council. "Chilworth". Exploring Surrey's Past. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
References
- ^ Tillingbourne ward Guildford Borough Council. Retrieved 20 March 2015
- ^ a b Ordnance Survey Explorer map 145 edition B1 revised 2004.
- ^ Defra – Air Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ^ Major Village Expansions options in the Borough – Current Local Plan Guildford Borough Council. Accessed 20 March 2015.
- ^ Surrey Domesday Book Archived 15 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Gunpowder Mills
- ^ K R Fairclough and Glenys Crocker – Chilworth gunpowder mills in the period of the Dutch Wars
- ^ M. B. Donald, Elizabethan Monopolies: the history of the Company of Mineral and Battery Works from 1565 to 1604 (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh 1961), 136–7.
- ^ Historic England. "Chilworth gunpowder works (1018507)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ Ordnance Survey, 1st edn.
- ^ Ordnance Survey 1945 edn.
- ^ "English heritage review of diocesan churches". Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
- ^ VCH Surrey Vol 3, p104
- ^ Historic England. "Chilworth Manor (1188708)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ "ISP Gigaclear to Extend FTTP Broadband Cover in Surrey UK". ISPreview. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.