Send, Surrey
Send | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Woking | |
Postcode district | GU23 | |
Dialling code | 01483 | |
Police | Surrey | |
Fire | Surrey | |
Ambulance | South East Coast | |
UK Parliament | ||
Send is a
Send is
History
The first record of Send is from a 1063 copy of a survey from c. 960, in which the settlement appears as Sendan. Throughout the middle ages, it is recorded as Sande, Saunde and Sonde. The name is thought to derive from the Old English ‑sænde indicating a sandy place.[4]
Send appears in
The parish saw a little-known skirmish. On 14 June 1497 the
Ripley was, at the time of the Domesday Book, a
The
Send was the base of the defunct 1950s Formula One and sports car constructor Connaught Engineering.
Geography and transport
Send is a
The parish is bounded to the west and part of its northern side by the River Wey, which is controlled by sluices and has been expanded in capacity by a navigable channel running alongside, the Wey Navigation.
The nearest railway stations are at
White Bus Services operate irregular routes 462 and 463 through Send village between Woking and Guildford,[11] while Falcon Buses runs the hourly route 715 through Burntcommon between Kingston upon Thames and Guildford.[12]
Soil
Send is on a gently rising patch of Bagshot Sand, with Cartbridge, like Ripley, on sand and gravel of the lower Wey Valley; a southern part of the parish is on generally higher still London Clay.[9]
Elevation
Elevations range from 49 m (161 ft)
Localities
Cartbridge
Cartbridge is a mostly amorphous locality that covers the western end of the village's main street, particularly where it turns to the north towards Woking.
Send Marsh
The neighbourhood is contiguous with the clustered, built-up estates of Boughton Court Avenue and the
Send Marsh has Send's Grade II listed late 17th century
Unusually for Guildford schools it is within the admission priority area of Guildford's George Abbot School most years and the boundaries have not to date excluded it to be replaced by for instance closer areas of north-western Guildford.[citation needed]
Burntcommon
Burntcommon is a locality of Send that directly adjoins Send Marsh. Its nearest town is Woking, which lies approximately 3.1 miles (5.0 km) north-west.[17]
Amenities
Health and well-being
The small Send Surgery on Send Road next to the Church Rooms closed in 2003 and reopened on Send Barns Lane as the modern Villages Medical Centre serving 7,000 people in Send, Ripley and the surrounding villages.[18] The old surgery is now occupied by a beauty treatment business. The Old Hall, on Send Marsh Road, is now a residential care home.[19]
Businesses
The main route through the community runs
These include the post office, a takeaway, diving shop/centre,
Recreation
Send has a recreation ground, the Lancaster Hall and the Church Rooms.[
Schools
Send National School, off Send Hill, was built in 1834 and enlarged in 1892. When the school closed, the building was converted to residential use. It is now known as The Old School.
Send Church of England Central School was built in 1939 but, with war imminent, its opening was delayed until 1941 in case the building was required for military use.[24] During the planning process questions were raised in the House of Commons about the provision of adequate drainage.[25] Initially conceived as a secondary school, it was built on a large plot of land with space for facilities including a light engineering workshop, a carpentry room, a domestic science room and a gymnasium, in addition to a vast playing field. Over time it became known as St Bede's and, from 1972, was relaunched as a middle school. Facilities grew to include two outdoor swimming pools.
Send Church of England (Foundation) First School was built in 1958.
Send's two schools formed the Federation of Send Church of England Schools on 29 March 2012.
Under its final title, St Bede's Church of England (Aided) Junior School buildings were demolished in Summer 2017[26] and a replacement building for 7– to 11-year-olds was erected on the Send First School site on Send Barns Lane.
Religion
Church of England
Send parish church[27] is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and dates from around 1220. The nave was rebuilt and the tower added in around 1485. New kitchen and toilet facilities were completed in 2002. A York stone path was laid in the churchyard in 2003. The church is a Grade II* listed building[28] and is the oldest building still in use in Send. In January 2008 the church was voted Visitor/Leisure Attraction of the Year in the Guildford Life with Style[29] awards, attracting 75% of the votes and beating the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley, Watts Gallery, Guildford Tour Guides and Surrey Hills Llamas. In October 2008 the church received the Mayor of Guildford's Award for Access.
Roman Catholicism
Evangelical
Send
War memorials
Send has three such memorials.[31]
A Celtic-style stone cross next to the Church Rooms on Send Road rises above these inscriptions: "1914–1918 In memory of the men of this village who at the call of duty gave their lives their country. Faithful unto death." The names of the fallen are:
- (1914–1918) G. Frederick Barnes, William Barnett, Arthur Brackley, William C. Collins, George F. Craddock, Trevor Durrant, Robert G. Fuller, Albert Giles, William Giles, Alan F. M. Grant, David Millard, Archibald Muir, Maurice Simmonds, W. Kenneth Sinclair, Robin R. Skene, Ernest Tickner, Jack Tickner, Herbert W. Walls, Ernest A. Whapshot, Sidney Wright, Alfred Wye.
- (1939–1945) Robert P. Dixon, Bradford W. O. Dockerty, Robin Giles, Rupert P. James, Frank Hack, Hubert E. Murrell, Ian Matheson, Brian T. Opperman, Donald W. S. Price, William Smith, Edward P. Winton, Edward Wood, Leslie Woolley, William Pratt.
A brick memorial mounted with a wrought iron "1914 1918" in the recreation ground near the corner of Send Road and Sandy Lane bears the words: "This recreation ground was purchased by public subscription and was opened on 1 June 1920 for the benefits of the inhabitants of Send as a memorial to the sailors and soldiers who fell and in grateful recognition of those in the village who took part in the Great War of 1914–1918. Trustees: S. S. Boorman, A. H. Lancaster, J. A. Shirer, W. M. Grant, F. W. Morgan Jones, W. G. Whitbourn."
A stone tablet on the north wall of the nave inside the parish church bears this inscription: "The peal of six bells was hung as a memorial to those of this parish who lost their lives in two world wars and as a thank offering for victory." The names listed are the same as on the Celtic-cross memorial but with the addition of five people "killed by enemy action": V. Bowers, H. C. Parsons, H. E. Privett, M. J. Privett and V. Privett. Members of the Privett family were killed on 21 August 1944 by the explosion of a
Demography and housing
The
Output area | Detached | Semi-detached | Terraced | Flats and apartments | Caravans/temporary/mobile homes | Shared between households[1] |
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(Civil Parish) | 908 | 551 | 90 | 116 | 0 | 0 |
Of the accommodation in the region[clarification needed], 28% was composed of detached houses, and 22.6% was composed of apartments.[is this simply based on numbers of dwellings, or weighted in any way by size?]
Output area | % Owned outright |
% Owned with a loan |
Area (hectares)[1] |
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(Civil Parish) | 41.3% | 41.4% | 695[1] |
The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).
Occupations
The
Category of employment | Number[1] |
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Managers, Directors and Senior Officials | 390 |
Professional Occupations | 485 |
Associate Professional and Technical Occupations | 310 |
Administrative and Secretarial Occupations | 265 |
Skilled Trades Occupations | 215 |
Caring, Leisure and Other Service Occupations | 151 |
Sales and Customer Service Occupations | 110 |
Process, Plant and Machine Operatives | 69 |
Elementary Occupations | 119 |
Population over time
Data for 1801–1961 is available at Britain Through Time.[34] The loss of Ripley in 1878 ecclesiastically and in 1933[35] as a secular administrative unit (civil parish) represented almost half of the land area of the village.[36]
Year | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 |
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Population | 1,024 | 1,090 | 1,283 | 1,483 | 1,538 | 1,555 | 1,855 | 2,049 | 2,301 |
Year | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1941 | 1951 | 1961 | |||
Population | 2,544 | 2,847 | 3,278 | n/a | 2,788 | 3,680 |
Popular culture
Music
The Send Barns Orchestra, conducted by Jeremy Gilbert, are credited on the 1977
Film location
In 1969, a scene for The Telling Bone episode of
In April 2009, scenes for a BBC Drama production of Jane Austen's "Emma", adapted by Sandy Welch and starring Romola Garai, Michael Gambon, Jonny Lee Miller, Blake Ritson, Dan Fredenburgh, Tamsin Greig and Rupert Evans, were filmed in and around Send Parish Church.[37]
In August 2012, Willow Drive was used to film scenes for Cuban Fury, starring Nick Frost.[38]
Prison
Counterintuitively now named after the village is HMP Send, a women's prison on the site of a former isolation hospital. Following parish area reduction in the south[9] the jail is now in the southern part of the parish of Ripley surrounded by farmland and woodland.
Sport
Send's local
The Concorde Cricket Club, formerly the British Aerospace Cricket Club, is based at Sendholme on Potters Lane.[40] Sendholme was the home of William Hargreaves Leese, who played for the Marylebone Cricket Club in the late 19th century.[41]
Military residents and events
Lieutenant-General
Flight Lieutenant Robin R Skene, one of the first members of the
Flooding
Following flooding in the east of
Notable residents
- The British guitarist Eric Clapton spent two years as a pupil at Send's one-time secondary modern school (which became St. Bede's Church of England Junior School).
- Musician Paul Wellerlived for several years in Vicarage Lane.
- Anthony Phillips, former Genesis guitarist, lived and recorded at Send Barns on Send Barns Lane until 1981.[47]
- Elizabeth Macarthur-Onslow (1840–1911), an Australian pastoralist and property manager[48] born in Menangle, New South Wales, died during a visit to England and is buried in Send churchyard.
- In 1911 Send Grove was the property of and occupied by the Misses Onslow.
- Woodhill was the principal home of the Dowager Countess of Wharncliffe.[9]
- Sir Herbert Holt (1856–1941), divided his time between Send Grove and his other home in Montreal's Golden Square Mile. His son, also called Herbert, inherited Send Grove after his death.
- Loelia Lindsay (1902–1993), Duchess of Westminster, lived at Send Grove and later at the Old Vicarage in Church Lane.[49]
- Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond lives in Send Barns.
- British entrepreneur, soldier and spy Charles Letts was born in Send.
- The children's novelist Monica Edwards lived at Send from 1939 to 1947.
- Barrister, Liberal MP and first class cricketer Joseph Leese lived at Send Holme from 1875 until 1914.
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