Lower Church Lane Victoria Garden Victoria ofthe building. atNote theclever thecorner mixingofsmallandlargebricks Club. and, initsentrance, were tileswhich anumberofgreen madeat thecelebrated Wrecclesham pottery. you are outsidetheMethodistChurch. At thegates turnleftintoSouthStreet. Walk tothetraffic islandat thejunctionofSouthStreet andUnion Roadandcross over at thispointso trainingbouts. practiceduring this hallforsparring offset thissum. A similarpageanthasbeenheldthree timessince. Inthe1920sNoel ‘Boy’ boxer aninternational McCormick, wholived inFarnham, used vane showing itwas built in1909. When thebuilding was completedadebtof£800was stilloutstanding. Pageant Farnham was In1910thefirst heldto a pairofwrought iron gates openingintoSouthStreet. Go through thegate intotherecreational area andfollow thepath besidetheriver, walk across thewooden bridge, andthento gopastthewar memorial Gostrey Meadow at Jolly Farmer. 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The concave were marksinthebricks madeby generations of was anotherofHaroldtwo Falkner’s which sideofthearch framesat each canstillbeseenonthewoodenThe whitepaintedlettering lintelsabove the subscription, tocommemorate Queen Victoria’s DiamondJubileein1897. swimming was built, bath which totheformer entrance by public isacontinuation ofthesideLutyens which building.arch This was the Walk alongthepath at thesideofLiberal Club. VICTORIA GARDEN , isat thejunctionofUpperandMiddleChurch Lane. right walk between theparked vehicles, thenleft, andontoa . Walk pastthechurch andstopoutsidetheLiberal behind thewall andopentothepublic Turn right andwalk pastarow ofcottages. plaque 9 . centre the gutter in the Note h ila Cobbett William The At theendofLower At theentrance to . Lookat thelarge Look up Look up Foyle’s .

also a visitor to the Pagets and wroteAn Idyll and dedicated it to Farnham, particularly those visiting Waverley Abbey (the first them after one of his visits to Farnham. Cistercian monastery in this country). They crossed the River Wey Return to South Street and look around you at this point. at Longbridge - where there was once a ford - then turn left along FARNHAM Note the square building at the junction of Victoria Road and Abbey Street then right over what is now the bypass followed by the facing the United Reformed Church. This was Farnham’s first railway level crossing and then on to the abbey. (South Street was HERITAGE TRAIL School of Art. Later the art school moved to West Street. It is now not constructed for another 742 years after the abbey had been in Falkner Road and is designated as the University for the founded). Turn and walk back to the pedestrian crossing and Creative Arts. Continue to walk towards the town centre cross the road. Turn right and walk a few yards to reach the foot traffic lights noting the display, on a right-hand wall, dedicated of Castle Street where this tour began. St Andrew's Church to Farnham’s most famous sons. It is hoped that, having followed the route, you have spent an enjoyable hour or two on a whistle-stop tour of Farnham.

THE WOOLMEAD HERITAGE SURROUNDING FARNHAM Cross over the road at the traffic lights to the flower beds in the Woolmead open area. Plaque 10 is on the building on More information can be found in the Museum of Farnham, the the extreme left. Note the milestone adjacent to the traffic light public library and from books available in local bookshops including pole. It shows this point in Farnham as being 38 miles from the fact that only one mile from the town centre is the site of what London. This area was once the site of a toll bar at the entrance to is recognised as the first village in England. It is marked by an the town. Look back to South Street down which you have just inscribed stone and is not far from the Six Bells Roundabout walked. This thoroughfare was completed in 1870 (at a cost of (formerly known as the Tin Hut Roundabout). nearly £3,000) to connect the town to the railway station, which Remains of a Roman villa and bath (now had been built in 1849. South Street is the only major town street grassed over or built upon) lie 200 yards in Farnham not to have buildings numbered consecutively. from this Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) site and amongst the many famous people who are closely connected with, or lived in, the THE BOROUGH Farnham area are J.M. Barrie, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sir Arthur Cross the traffic lightsdiagonally , walk right and stop outside Conan Doyle, Robert Baden-Powell, Peter the Bush Hotel Courtyard. Here you can seeplaque 11. The Pears, Dame Vera Lynn, Jessie Matthews and Bush Hotel is the town’s oldest hostelry where people have imbibed Liza Goddard. Waverley Abbey (1128), the first Cistercian alcoholic beverages for over 500 years. It was a coaching inn, is monastery in this country, is just two miles from the town centre, reputed to have several ghosts and has an indoor sundialon the the first two-seater petrol-driven car in this country was constructed ceiling of its Oak Lounge. Leave The Bush Hotel, continue in West Street and Mike Hawthorn, the racing driver who first westward along The Borough. Stop at Borelli Yard, adjacent to brought the World Motor Racing Championship to Britain in 1958, a bank, where you will seeplaque 12. Look up in the archway was educated, lived and worked in this town before his untimely and find the date 1610. Go down the yard, under the next archway death just outside Guildford, in 1959. and look at the statue ‘Matriarch’ by Ben Franklin as well as the There is far more to Farnham than can be imagined and to plaque giving information about a medieval tile kiln which was paraphrase a well-known saying: "When a resident (or visitor) is excavated here in the 1980s.Return to The Borough, turn left tired of Farnham he (or she) must be tired of life." and continue walking on past the next building with its ‘By Appointment to Her Majesty’ fanlight above the door. This honour had been granted by Queen Victoria to Charles Borelli when he had his watchmaker’s and jeweller’s shop in this building. With Harold Farnham Town Council Falkner he was responsible for the sympathetic restoration of many Council Offices, South Street, buildings in Farnham during the early 20th century.Continue Farnham, Surrey GU9 7RN walking to the road junction of The Borough, West Street and 01252 712667 Downing Street. This was another toll bar site where money had www.farnham.gov.uk Text © Jean Parratt to be paid by travellers on horseback or in carriages to gain entry Illustrations © Michael Blower Revised and reprinted 2015 to The Borough. Look to your left down Downing Street. For Designed and printed by Riverprint, Farnham 01252 722771 centuries this was the route taken by everyone going south from You can start your walk at any point on the circular route. Farnham Heritage Trail plaques can be found at each site, corresponding to the numbers on this map.

Kingham and Sons, wholesale and retail grocers, whose warehouse occupied the land on which the present supermarket now stands. At the bottom of CASTLE STREET the yard, note the old water pump on the right, and cellar doors of the former Lion and Lamb Hotel (the building from which this yard derived its name). Farnham Castle Plaque 1 is at the bottom of Castle Street. In the centre of the street, at this point, was the Market House which was also a jail. It was built in 1566 and demolished in 1866. See heritage plaque Plaque 3 is on the wall near the large gates, at the bottom of the yard. Turn right into West Street. on the wall of a bank, which provides more historical details. Note the hop bines, moulded on the rainwater down-pipes of the building at the same corner, which is A287 From Fleet WEST STREET known as The Town Hall Buildings. Farnham hops were once the most & Odiham (M3) C West Street a s expensive in England. Look up the road and see Farnham t l On the wall of the buildng opposite observe the e

Castle, on which building started early in the 12th century H Farnham roundel high up on the wall of the department i l l Castle and was a home to the Bishops of Winchester for University for store opposite you, showing the birthplace

Bishop’s more than 800 years. Start to walk up the street the Creative Arts of Augustus Toplady, author of the hymn and look at the varied fanlights above doors. Steps Farnham P Park Rock of Ages. Continue along the pavement, The first motoring offence to warrant a Park Row past the post office and noting as you go the

fine took place in this street in 1895. The Hart unusual building in Malthouse Yard, once What is believed to be the Castle Str Bear Lane owned by a hop garden tallyman, and a rare first-ever Two-Minute Silence, example of an 18th century shop front at 104a. now observed annually on Armistice Day, was initiated by J. Alfred Eggar, an estate agent P 2 It was brought from a former pastrycook’s in

of Castle Street, and was first held in May 1916 near the archway leading to St. eet Lion& The Cornhill, London, by Harold Falkner George’s Yard. Continue up the street and go into the courtyard leading to a Long Garden Lamb (one of the town’s most famous, but restaurant. Look at the exterior of the building and find a plaque containing details Way Walk about the Castle Theatre (earlier WC Lion & Lamb Woolmead Rd eccentric, architects). He erected this shop front behind specially construct- known as the Playhouse Theatre). Sir Castle Street Yard 10 The 4 ed giraffe-like pillars, in 1950. Michael Redgrave said that this was A31 from Alton 3 1 Woolmead the most haunted theatre in which he East Street A325 West Street The Borough 12 11 Cambridge Stop at the corner of the lane next to a timber-framed building (98 and 99 Ya Bor

had ever acted. To Farnham Pottery, Place Farnham Upper West Street) on which is plaque 4. The lane running northward is Timber rd Go back into the main street and Wrecclesham Library 5 Church Lane Ivy Lane elli Close, which is believed to be the place of the construction, in 1395, of the Willmer House Church

either walk on towards the castle Str Downing hammer-beam roof of Westminster Hall, in London, where it can still be seen (The Museum Passage 6

or cross over the road near the red Chur today. After construction in Farnham, it was then taken, piece by piece, to of Farnham) P

telephone box. If you walk on up Middle London and erected there. Cross The Hart and continue along the road until South Str Brightwells ch Lane ch WC the hill note the Nelson Arms with Sports you reach a grassy area known as College Gardens on which are small

a hand-carved wooden sign and a few KEY St Andrew’s P P Centre bungalows. Note the military college details on a heritage plaque in the grass. eet yards farther on you will reach the Church 9 Although William Willett, the man who originated the idea of daylight saving, Public eet steps to Farnham Castle. These are Victoria Road Victoria was born in a cottage at this site in 1856, this detail is not recorded here. constructed in blocks of seven steps footpaths: Garden Lower Union Road Council Cross the road and enter the Museum of Farnham, at number 38, which is and seven paces and had been built to Route: Church Lane P Gostrey Offices situated in a Grade I listed Georgian building. Here the visitor can find facilitate a walk alone into the town 1 Meadow WC by Bishop Richard Fox, who was 1 thousands of artefacts pertinent to Farnham and its unique history as well as an Plaque: excellent local history library. Entry to the museum and its walled garden is free. blind for several years before his Farnham Maltings Bridge 8 River Wey Square It is open from 10am to 5pm Tuesdays to Saturdays. Turn right on leaving the death in 1528. The Castle Keep is Abbey 7 Stre Farnham museum and walk back towards the town centre. Stop and look at 28, West Street. normally open daily and the castle, et War Memorial Red Lion Lane 7 This building, known as Vernon House, has a ceramic roundel on a wall, stating that known also as The Bishop’s Palace, is 8 2 King Charles I stayed in the house (earlier known as Culver Hall) for one night, as a open for guided tours on Wednesday afternoons. Check before going for A on d l n l o i L o prisoner, before going to London, for trial and eventual execution. He gave his host, availability and times. (To continue the tour return to the red telephone box and & rlo H d te r fo a Sir Henry Vernon, his morning cap in thanks for his hospitality. Made in blue silk with cross the road). e ild W v Gu om o Fr gold and silver threadwork this can now be seen in the Museum of Farnham. r m If you decide to cross the road, plaque 2 is on a wall at the right of the footpath ro F leading into Long Garden Walk. Turn round to face Castle Street, look to your right and Fr Firg 31 Station B3001 see the Golden Hind on top of the Town Hall Buildings. Look across the road to your left and om A A P lton A3 note the plane trees planted in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The 1 Farn To Waverley CENTRAL FARNHAM ham Bypass Abbey almshouses behind them were built in 1619 - see heritage plaque. Although many of the buildings Remember when walking about in Farnham that all the main thoroughfares - Castle in this street appear to be Georgian many are much older and only have Georgian façades. Turn back Fr Station Road om Alton From Tilford Street, West Street, East Street, Downing Street and The Borough are numbered consecutively

into Long Garden Walk and not alternately (evens on one side and odds on the other) as is more usual. Walk past Vernon Lion and Lamb Yard where rope was once made in House and then the Bishop’s Table Hotel at 27, West Street, both of which are reputed to be haunted, and lengths stretching from the Hop stop outside number 25, the large Victorian building a few yards farther on which is the Farnham Adult Blossom to the far side of Castle Street. From Frensham Learning Centre. Farnham has a long history of first-class education and in the past this building has been used as Continue walking westward and on to the & Hindhead Farnham Grammar School, Farnham Girls’ Grammar School and Farnham School of Art. At 24, West Street is Harold forecourt of a supermarket. Turn left into Falkner’s house carrying a heritage plaque. Harold Falkner and his friend, Charles Borelli, had a profound influence on architectural aspects of Farnham today. Continue to walk to the pedestrian crossing lights. Stop at plaque 5 which is on the wall of LION AND LAMB YARD Church Passage. This passage is also known as Streaky Bacon Lane. Look at the setts beneath your feet for the reason! William Kingham’s bacon smoking factory once occupied the building on your right. You are now approaching St. Andrew’s Parish Church, one of the largest parish churches in Note the heritage plaque on a wall before walking down the yard which is Surrey. Handboards inside give its history. Legend states that its womenfolk, from a vantage point on a former tower on this church, saved the town facing you. The lion and lamb teak sculpture was carved in the mid-1980s at when the Danes invaded Farnham in the 9th century. William Cobbett’s tomb is outside the church’s main door. Despite being born into poverty the same time as most of the upper part of this yard was built, the exception in 1763, he rose to become an MP, an advocate of political reform and an author of note (his most well known work being Rural Rides). His influence being the listed barn on the left which is currently a retail outlet. At one time can be still seen today as founder of the present Hansard. He died in 1835. Continue walking down the left path to the main churchyard entrance and this barn was used as a garage for the repair of vehicles used by William note the gates constructed in memory of a pet dog - details at ground level on the left pillar.