Great Bookham

 

Church Road

Tall cast-iron sewer vent pipe

Dorking Road

Tall cast-iron sewer vent pipe

Eastwick Lane

Cottages and terrace by Butterfield

Great Bookham

Lying mostly on the north side of the road is a pleasant village with many old cottages and a church of great interest.

Guildford Road

Milestone In the trees south of the A246 near Brodrick Grove from the 1758 turnpike to Guildford. There is no inscription but it appears to have had a cast-iron plate, which has been removed.

High Street

6 c.1825 nicely detailed

Victoria Cottages. 16th timber framing

Fairfield House, an 18th-century cottage since enlarged.  Fanny Burney wrote her third novel, Camilla here in 1796.

Village Hall is a reconstructed 15th-century barn.

Lower Road

St.Nicholas. The oldest parts are the nave walls which date from the late c11th And there  are  the remains of contemporary frescoes.  The church is near an ancient droveway to the Weald. The tower has an attractive wooden belfry and shingled spire. The chancel was built in 1341 by John Rutherwyk, Abbot of Chertsey, as related by the inscription in Lombardic characters on the east wall – and due to him the timber beams came from the Abbey estates. Square font, of Sussex marble. Monuments: brass to Edmond Slyfield, d. 1590, and brass of his wife, 1597; other brasses to Slyfields on the floor ; Elizabeth Andrews, d. 1816, and others of her family, framed by a weeping willow in stone; marble monument to Robert Shiers, d. 1668, of Slyfield, attributed to Edward Hurst, Shiers shown in the habit of a law student; Colonel Thomas Moore, d. 1735, in Roman costume by Thomas Carter;  Cornet Francis Geary, d. 1776, with a relief of an episode in the War of American Independence; Lord Raglan, 1788- 1855, the Crimean War commander, Brass and the east window, 1859, of the Slyfield chapel is dedicated to him.  .

Churchyard three vigorous walnuts planted in 1734.

Old Rectory west of the church, substantially Georgian in character, often visited by Jane Austen,

Church Cottages with timber framing

School gloomy flint by Butterfield.  1856, Used by Webb for some elements of the Red House.

Youth Centre.  1967

Tall cast-iron sewer vent pipes

Station Road

Cast-Iron Staddle Stones The Old Barn Hall, on the west side of the road, is built around a 16th century barn which was moved to its present position in 1906. Set in the front boundary wall of the property are 18 cast-iron staddle stones and it is assumed that the barn may have been standing on these before it was used as a hall. The castings are marked ‘Bartlett Dorking’. The Dorking foundry was established in the 1820s by the Bartlett family who operated there until 1870.

Townshott Close

Tall cast-iron sewer vent pipe

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