Compton, Guildford

Coordinates: 51°12′50″N 0°37′57″W / 51.2138°N 0.6325°W / 51.2138; -0.6325
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Not to be confused with Compton, Waverley.

Compton
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townGuildford
Postcode districtGU3
Dialling code01483
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51°12′50″N 0°37′57″W / 51.2138°N 0.6325°W / 51.2138; -0.6325

Compton is a village and

inns and the parish church
.

Geography

The village is just off the Compton junction of the

Watts Mortuary Chapel, built to the memory of Symbolist painter George Frederic Watts, a resident of the village. Development can be classed as ribbon development around the through road. The 2001 census gives a population of 972 living in 384 households. The maximum elevation is on the Hog's Back at 152m, the minimum at a small brook flowing east of the village centre, at its lowest on outflow at 45m above sea level.[2]

The western part of the village forms a conservation area (as well as a very small eastern part between The Avenue and Compton Wood).[3]

History

Relics from the structure of the tower of the village's church, St Nicholas', suggest that the area was settled during the period of Roman occupation of Britain. Compton appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Conton(e). It was held by Walter, son of Othere. Its domesday assets were: 11 hides; 1 church, 9 ploughs, 7 acres (28,000 m2) of meadow. It rendered £9.[4]

St Nicholas' Church contains one of the oldest surviving carved

Anglo-Saxon, but it has been much altered over the centuries. For example, the influence of the Normans can be seen in the arches, the timber roofing (thought to date back to 1165) and the unique carved wooden screen in the chancel. Other features were added in the generations that followed, such as the spire (14th century), the pulpit and the clock (17th century). The church is grade I-listed.[5]

On the outskirts of Compton is the 16th century

Henry VIII's palace at Nonsuch Park
.

The Withies Inn

The Withies Inn is one of the oldest buildings in the village. Just off the main road, it was built in the 16th century.[6]

The manor of Field Place was bought in 1709 by the London publisher Samuel Manship (1665-1720), passing to his widow Anne and then their son John. His son John only had one child Anne, who eloped, and the manor was sold.[7]

The ashes of Aldous Huxley were brought from the US on 27 October 1971 and interred in his parents' grave at Watts Cemetery.[8]

George Frederic Watts

The Watts Gallery, Compton[9]

One of Compton's most decorated residents by his profession was the artist who was primarily a painter,

Mary Seton Watts were built on a hill overlooking the village. Among his subjects were Hope (part of his "House of Life" cycle), Orpheus and Eurydice and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
.

Potteries

The

Mary Fraser-Tytler
(her name before marriage to G. F. Watts) and initially used a source of local clay discovered during the building of Limnerslease. It continued until 1954.

Artist and historian Mary Wondrausch lived and worked in the parish[11] at the site of a former brickworks. Made of local clay from the foundations of the pottery of Mary Wondrausch, sculptor Jon Edgar's Compton Triptych[12] was unveiled in November 2011. The three terracotta heads celebrate the parish of Compton and the diverse figures who have contributed to this community.

Literature

Arthur Conan Doyle's novels Sir Nigel and The White Company refer to certain characters as being buried in Compton Church.[13]

Compton is the home village of characters described in Freeman Wills Crofts' 1933 murder mystery The Hog's Back Mystery.[14][15]

Demography and housing

The proportion of households in Compton who owned their home outright was 8% above the regional average. The proportion who owned their home with a loan was 3.6% lower than the regional average; social housing formed 13.7% of homes, providing overall a greater proportion of social rented housing and lower proportion of privately rented housing relative to the average of Surrey, the district and of the United Kingdom.

2011 Census Key Statistics
Output area Population Households % Owned outright % Owned with a loan % Socially rented hectares[1]
Compton (CP) 1,154 386 40.4 31.9 13.7 843[1]
2011 Census Homes
Output area Detached Semi-detached Terraced Flats and apartments Caravans/temporary/mobile homes shared between households

[1]

(Civil Parish) 173 113 51 49 0 0

The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.

Politics

Compton is in

Guildford Borough Council and Surrey County Council
.

At Surrey County Council, one of the 81 representatives represents the area within the Shalford division.[16]

At

Guildford Borough Council small wards of the borough are deemed appropriate to be best represented under the current constitution of councillors by two councillors.[17]

Guildford Borough Councillors
Election Member[17]

Ward

2010 Neil Ward Shalford
2010 James Palmer Shalford
Surrey County Councillor
Election Member[18]

Electoral Division

2013 George Johnson Shalford

See also

  • List of places of worship in Guildford (borough)

References

  1. ^
    United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics
    Retrieved 21 November 2013
  2. ^ Census data
  3. Guildford Borough Council
    Retrieved 20 November 2013
  4. ^ Surrey Domesday Book Archived 23 December 2004 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Historic England. "St Nicholas Church (Grade I) (1188621)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  6. ^ Historic England. "The Withies Inn, Withies Lane (Grade II) (1268281)". National Heritage List for England.
  7. ^ 'Parishes: Compton', in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H E Malden (London, 1911), pp. 16-24 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp16-24 , retrieved 21 October 2015
  8. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34082
    .
  9. ^ Historic England. "The Watts Gallery, Down Lane (Grade II*) (1188403)". National Heritage List for England.
  10. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36781. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  11. ISBN 0-9548237-0-2
  12. ^ "THE HUMAN CLAY - University of Surrey - Guildford". www.surrey.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 10 December 2011.
  13. ^ Sir Nigel, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Chapter xxvii.How the Third Messenger Came to Cosford
  14. ^ Crofts, Freeman Willis (1933). The Hog's Back Mystery. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
  15. ^ "A Good Read: The Hog's Back Mystery". Surrey Hills Society. 6 August 2020. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  16. ^ Electoral Divisions Archived 2 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Surrey County Council. Retrieved 6 November 2013
  17. ^
    Guildford Borough Council
    . Retrieved 20 November 2013
  18. ^ Your Councillor Surrey County Council. Retrieved 6 November 2013

Sources

  • Forster, David. (2001). AA 50 Walks in Surrey.

External links

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